Lumit - Compositing that adapts to your workflow.

Compositing that adapts to your workflow. Built by editors, for editors. With an application that always remains responsive.

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Welcome to Lumit

01 / 07

Composite the way you know.

v0.10.1 See what is new

Lumit mid-edit: the Viewer showing a burst of light over a night sky, effect controls at the left, effects and presets at the right, and a timeline of layers and keyframes below — Lumit, mid-edit

Lumit's Timeline showing only the keyframed rows of several layers: their names and values on the left, their keyframes in the lanes on the right — Intuitively designed. Bring your knowledge directly into Lumit. We know time matters, so you can work without interruption.

Effect controls beside the Viewer: a Custom shader's own Wedges, Turn, Zoom and Slice rows, and the kaleidoscope they fold the picture into — Dynamic effects. Effects can be driven by expressions, altered in the node graph, or simply in the effect controls. You decide.

The projects in these pictures were made in Lumit, and you can open them yourself. Get the projects

Workspaces

02 / 07

Meet the interface.

Each workspace arranges the window for one kind of work. Switch between them at any point.

Multi-edit

03 / 07

Edit one project together.

Invite friends by their username, or send them an invite link.

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luminal Tower

Moved Tower luminal · 1m ago Set 3 keyframes on PositionEased the landing Easing the drop luminal · Now Dragging the speed graphTower, Position

kiriko Sky

Added Glow kiriko · 1m ago Glow on TowerThreshold 0.42 Grading Sky kiriko · Now Curves and LevelsSky adjustment layer

me Clouds Idle

Trimmed Clouds me · 1m ago Cloud 1 to Cloud 4Out points to 05s Renamed Rig me · 45s ago Rig to Camera rig

dara Looking Watching

A multi-edit project: two other people's pointers named in the Viewer, and their playheads in their own colours on the Timeline — One person hosts and sends an invite, and up to 16 people can join. Edits appear for everyone as they're made, and each person has a colour for their pointer, playhead, and selection.

Pro Multi-edit is free on your own network. Pro adds a relay so anyone can join from anywhere, with previews, comments, sync, and backups. $6 a month, or $60 a year See Pro

Inside Lumit

04 / 07

Make it yours.

Lumit for iPhone: the Exports tab following an export on Studio PC, and a preview with its comments — Lumit for iPhone Exports on your phone. Start and follow exports, and read the comments on your previews. It pairs with Lumit on your computer, and exports from the phone need Pro. Android coming soon

The setup screen: After Effects or Vegas editing style, three interface styles, colour scheme, toolbar position and motion — Setup Customise and work your way. The setup screen asks how you like to edit, and each choice applies as you pick. All of them can be changed later in Settings.

The Shortcuts page of Settings: keymap presets, an After Effects shortcut import, and a keyboard picture with the taken keys outlined — Shortcuts Keep your shortcuts. Load the After Effects keymap, or read in the shortcut file After Effects saves so custom binds carry over. A keyboard picture shows which keys are taken.

A title selected in the Viewer, with the Text and Paragraph panels beside it showing font, size, leading, tracking and alignment — Text Text and Paragraph panels. Text layers use any installed font, with leading, kerning, tracking, a stroke, alignment, and indents. Double-click a text layer in the Viewer to edit it.

Why Lumit exists

05 / 07

Editing should not be a chore.

No more preview lag, frozen interfaces, or stacks of plugins slowing your machine down. Lumit has what you need built in, and still runs your plugins if you want them.

Browse the effects

Retime, two ways

Retime a layer on a value graph or a speed graph. Both After Effects and Vegas styles are supported, and you can switch between them at any point.

Gaussian blurGlowMotion blurRGB splitShakeLens flareCurvesLevelsLUTRoto brushDatamoshPixel sortChromatic aberrationTurbulent displaceRemove backgroundGaussian blurGlowMotion blurRGB splitShakeLens flareCurvesLevelsLUTRoto brushDatamoshPixel sortChromatic aberrationTurbulent displaceRemove background

Depth of fieldLight wrapAdd grainEchoFractal noiseLightningBlock glitchVignetteTwirlCamera trackPlanar trackMatte keyHue and saturationWave warpMood lightingDepth of fieldLight wrapAdd grainEchoFractal noiseLightningBlock glitchVignetteTwirlCamera trackPlanar trackMatte keyHue and saturationWave warpMood lighting

Corner pinDisplacement mapLens distortScanlinesTritoneDrop shadowFind edgesMosaicRadial blurDirectional blurRadio wavesParticulatePolar coordinatesColour balancePosterize timeCorner pinDisplacement mapLens distortScanlinesTritoneDrop shadowFind edgesMosaicRadial blurDirectional blurRadio wavesParticulatePolar coordinatesColour balancePosterize time

Over 100 effects, built in

Glow, motion blur, shake, RGB split, colour grading, Roto brush, Puppet, and many more. Every effect renders on the GPU and has its own page in the manual.

A graph editor to work in

See the same curves as values or as speed. Ease, hold, or go linear, and edit several keyframes at once.

Cuts inside a layer

A Sequence layer holds clips cut back-to-back on one row, just like an NLE. Each clip keeps its own Retime.

Plugin support

Lumit hosts OFX, CLAP, and VST3 plugins. Sapphire, Twixtor, and the rest are found at start-up and sit beside the built-in effects.

Bring your After Effects projects

Open an After Effects project in Lumit. Keyframes carry across value for value, along with the base effects and any OFX plugins Lumit can find.

Let music guide you

Beat detection puts markers on the audio, and cuts and retimes snap to them. Any property can be driven by a layer's sound.

Your work survives a crash

Every edit is written to a journal as you make it, and the project autosaves alongside. If Lumit closes mid-edit, your work is offered back the next time you open it.

The interface stays responsive

Rendering runs on the GPU and finished frames are cached. A late frame lowers the preview quality instead of stalling, and you can keep working while an export runs.

Open source, GPLv3

The whole engine and interface are open source. No subscription, no licence per seat, and no paying extra for the basics.

Roadmap

06 / 07

What we are building.

Lumit is in public beta. Here is what is built, what is being worked on now, and what comes after.

Completed

36 shipped

Multi-edit, with friends
Lumit for iPhone
3D lights, shadows and materials
3D layers, camera and depth of field
Sequence layers and the Retime system
Node graph effects and compositions
Expressions and the Expressions panel
Text layers, animators and panels
Shape layers, modifiers and paint
Roto brush and Puppet
OFX, CLAP and VST3 plugin hosting
After Effects, PSD and Illustrator import

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Layers, masks, mattes and blend modes
Keyframes and the graph editor
Optical-flow frame interpolation
Beat detection and markers
Over 100 GPU effects
Points effects
Presets, saved and shared
Camera and planar tracking
The Audio timeline and audio effects
The Audio workspace
The Cut workspace
Interpret footage
Scripting, the command line and MCP
Lumit Pro: previews, backup and sync
Multiple Viewers, with compare
Interface styles and colour themes
Addons with local models
Extensions
Packed project files
Setup screen and guided tour
Export queue with hardware encoding
Proxies and background caching
Autosave and crash recovery
Windows, macOS and Linux builds

In progress Now

4 under way

Custom shader nodes
Colour management
Tone mapping
Interface performance at 60 and 120 fps

Long run

6 planned

Lumit's own effect format
Particle simulator
Blender scene import
Lottie export
OpenTimelineIO interchange
Render-farm export

Download

07 / 07

Free, forever.

Open source under GPLv3, and yours to keep. Windows, Linux and macOS builds are all ready now - no account, no licence key.

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