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FilmCraft: The free, open-source Premiere Pro alternative

A multi-track timeline, Lumetri-style color, keyframes and loudness meters, laid out the way Premiere users expect. Open FilmCraft in your browser in seconds, or install it on any desktop.

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…No accountFootage stays on your deviceMIT / Apache-2.0
FilmCraft's Color workspace on an Apollo 11 documentary cut: the Saturn V clearing the tower in the Program monitor with a lower third and a subtitle, Effect Controls with keyframes, the Lumetri Color panel and a multi-track timeline
Plate 0Apollo 11, NASA, 1969 (public domain). A documentary cut graded in FilmCraft's Color workspace, with Lumetri and Scale keyframes.

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What is FilmCraft

What is FilmCraft?

FilmCraft is an open-source video editor that rebuilds the Premiere Pro workflow from scratch in Rust: Source and Program monitors, bins, a multi-track timeline, every trim tool, Lumetri-style color, keyframes and an audio mixer. The menus, workspaces and shortcuts sit where Premiere users expect them, so your hands already know FilmCraft.

It is free, with no account and no subscription. The H.264, HEVC, ProRes and AAC codecs are FilmCraft’s own code, and the same engine compiles to WebAssembly, so the FilmCraft editor on this site is the full app running in your browser. Your footage never leaves your computer.

Try the FilmCraft editor
  1. 1.

    A Premiere-style timeline

    Monitors, bins, patching, trims and the same shortcuts.

  2. 2.

    Lumetri-style color

    Curves, color wheels and HSL Secondary, with live scopes.

  3. 3.

    Its own codecs

    H.264, HEVC, ProRes, AV1 and more, with no FFmpeg inside.

  4. 4.

    Open source

    Free forever under MIT or Apache-2.0.

FilmCraft features

Edit, grade and mix the way you do in Premiere

FilmCraft covers the work editors open Premiere Pro for: cutting, trimming, color, effects, sound and delivery.

FilmCraft's Assembly workspace: bins of film thumbnails, Carnival of Souls in the Source monitor, a Night of the Living Dead shot in the Program monitor and a trailer on a three-track timelinePremiere key layouts
Plate INight of the Living Dead (1968) and Carnival of Souls (1962), both public domain, cut into a trailer in the Assembly workspace.

Editing

A timeline your hands already know

Source and Program monitors, bins with thumbnails and a multi-track timeline with patch and target buttons. Mark In and Out, then insert or overwrite with the same keys as Premiere.

  • Ripple, roll, slip, slide, rate stretch and razor tools
  • Dynamic trimming with J, K and L while it plays
  • Frame-exact time, even at 23.976 and 29.97 drop-frame
FilmCraft's Color workspace on Charade (1963): Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn in the Program monitor with the waveform and vectorscope beside itLinear light, 32-bit
Plate IICharade (1963), public domain, graded in the Color workspace with live scopes.

Color

Lumetri-style color with scopes you can trust

Basic Correction, Creative looks, Curves, Color Wheels, HSL Secondary and Vignette, in the order a colorist works. FilmCraft grades in linear light at 32-bit float.

  • Waveform and vectorscope computed from the graded frame
  • Eight built-in looks with an intensity control
  • Hue vs saturation, hue vs hue and luma vs saturation curves
FilmCraft Effect Controls with the value and velocity graphs of an eased Scale push-in on the Night of the Living Dead title card93 video effects
Plate IIIAn eased push-in on the Night of the Living Dead (1968) title card, with value and velocity graphs.

Effects and motion

Keyframes with real value and velocity graphs

Motion and opacity on every clip, 26 blend modes, the full Video Effects bin and transitions from cross dissolves to page peels. Every animated parameter opens into value and velocity graphs with Bezier handles.

  • Linear, Bezier, hold, ease in and ease out keyframes
  • 93 video effects, including Ultra Key and Warp Stabilizer
  • A GPU compositor that blends in linear light
FilmCraft Export mode with destinations on the left, a Night of the Living Dead frame in the preview and H.264 settings on the rightNo FFmpeg inside
Plate IVExport mode, set to write the trailer as H.264 MP4 with its own encoder.

Export and interchange

Deliver the cut, or hand it to another editor

Export H.264 MP4 with AAC, ProRes 422 HQ, DNxHR, PNG sequences, animated GIF and WAV while you keep editing. Move timelines to Premiere, DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut Pro or Avid through XML, OpenTimelineIO, AAF and EDL.

  • Background export with progress and cancel
  • Captions as SRT, WebVTT and SCC, or burned into the picture
  • Loudness meters to EBU R128 and ITU-R BS.1770
Stars on GitHub
6.0k
Desktop downloads
162k+
Commands for scripts and agents
650+
Video effects
93

Toolbox

The full FilmCraft toolbox

The tools, panels and formats of a professional editor, ready from the first launch.

  1. 01

    Every trim

    Trim mode, the Trim Monitor, ripple and roll on edit points, Q and W to the playhead, and dynamic trims as one undo step.

  2. 02

    Multicam and nesting

    Multi-camera editing, nested sequences, sequence tabs and your own saved workspaces.

  3. 03

    Titles and captions

    A real text engine with Type, Shape and Pen tools, plus caption tracks in Subtitle, CEA-608, CEA-708 and Teletext.

  4. 04

    A full audio mixer

    Track and clip mixers, sends, submixes, automation in Read, Latch, Touch and Write, EQ, DeNoise and a true-peak limiter.

  5. 05

    Moves between editors

    Final Cut Pro 7 XML, FCPXML, OpenTimelineIO, CMX 3600 EDL, AAF and OMF, in and out.

  6. 06

    Never lose work

    Atomic saves, rolling auto-save versions and a crash-recovery journal written a second after each edit.

Compare

FilmCraft vs Premiere Pro

You get the core Premiere Pro workflow for free. Here is where the two match and where Premiere still leads.

FeatureFilmCraftFreeAdobe Premiere Pro
PriceFree foreverMonthly subscription
Source codeOpen source, MIT or Apache-2.0Closed
Account requiredNoAdobe ID
Runs onBrowser, Windows, macOS, Linux, FreeBSDWindows and macOS, no Linux
Timeline, trims, multicam, nestingYesYes
Lumetri-style color and scopesYes, in linear lightLumetri
Export codecsH.264, ProRes, DNxHR; no HEVC or AV1 yetH.264, HEVC, AV1 and more
Plug-ins (VST3, OpenFX)Not yetYes
AI featuresOptional speech to textGenerative Extend, auto captions
MaturityYoung; the team rates it 50 to 60% ready for real projectsMature, since 2003

Get FilmCraft

Use FilmCraft online or on any desktop

One editor, wherever you cut. Every desktop build links to the official signed release on GitHub.

How to use FilmCraft

How to use FilmCraft online

  1. 01

    Open the editor

    Press Open FilmCraft online. The app loads once, then your browser keeps it ready for your next visit.

  2. 02

    Bring in your footage

    Drop video, audio and stills anywhere on the window, or use File › Import. Nothing is uploaded.

  3. 03

    Cut, grade and mix

    Edit on the timeline, grade in the Color workspace and balance sound with the meters. Every step is in History.

  4. 04

    Export your video

    Export an H.264 MP4 and the browser saves it like any download. Unsaved work comes back if you close the tab.

FilmCraft download for Windows, Mac and Linux

Every FilmCraft download below is the official 0.4.0 build from GitHub, with its size next to the link.

FilmCraft for Windows

Your PCInstallerPortable (no install)
64-bit Intel or AMD (most PCs)filmcraft-0.4.0-windows-x64.msi · 52.3 MBportable ZIP · 64.1 MB
ARM (Snapdragon, Surface Pro X)filmcraft-0.4.0-windows-arm64.msi · 49.3 MBportable ZIP · 61.3 MB
32-bitfilmcraft-0.4.0-windows-x86.msi · 52.3 MBportable ZIP · 63.2 MB

How to install FilmCraft on Windows: run the MSI and follow the setup steps, then open FilmCraft from the Start menu. With the portable ZIP, unzip the folder anywhere and start FilmCraft from inside it.

FilmCraft for Mac

BuildFile
App, universal (Apple silicon and Intel)filmcraft-0.4.0-macos-universal.dmg · 68.4 MB
Command-line tool, universalfilmcraft-cli-0.4.0-macos-universal.zip · 54.8 MB

How to install FilmCraft on a Mac: open the DMG and drag FilmCraft into your Applications folder. The app is signed and notarized by Apple, so it opens with a normal double-click.

FilmCraft for Linux

Formatx86_64ARM64 (aarch64)
AppImage (runs anywhere)AppImage · 60.1 MBAppImage · 57.9 MB
Flatpak (sandboxed).flatpak · 46.6 MB.flatpak · 43.9 MB
Debian, Ubuntu, Mint.deb · 64.1 MB.deb · 62.4 MB
Fedora, RHEL, openSUSE.rpm · 63.7 MB.rpm · 61.9 MB
Tarball.tar.gz · 63.3 MB.tar.gz · 60.8 MB

How to install FilmCraft on Linux:

# AppImage: make it executable and run it
chmod +x filmcraft-0.4.0-linux-x86_64.AppImage
./filmcraft-0.4.0-linux-x86_64.AppImage

# Debian or Ubuntu
sudo apt install ./filmcraft-0.4.0-linux-x86_64.deb

FreeBSD 14 on x86_64 gets a tarball too: filmcraft-0.4.0-freebsd-x86_64.tar.gz · 63.2 MB.

FilmCraft system requirements

What FilmCraft needs
Windows64-bit, ARM64 or 32-bit Windows with a DirectX 12 or Vulkan driver; hardware decoding through Media Foundation
macOSAny Mac with Apple silicon or an Intel processor; hardware decoding through VideoToolbox
Linuxx86_64 or ARM64 with a Vulkan driver; decoding runs on the CPU for now
BrowserA current Chrome, Edge or Safari; it runs on one thread, so render previews and proxies need the desktop app

What's new in FilmCraft 0.4.0

Highlights from the official release notes:

  • Windows on ARM64 gets its own signed installer and portable ZIP.
  • A timeline’s clip memory drops from 12 GB to 1.9 GB, and hardware decoding is on.
  • Nested sequences carry through AAF, OMF and EDL interchange.
  • Save your own workspaces from Window › Workspaces, like in Premiere.
  • The interface speaks Japanese and Spanish.

Check your FilmCraft download

Each release includes SHA256SUMS.txt. Compare it with the checksum of your file:

shasum -a 256 filmcraft-0.4.0-macos-universal.dmg       # macOS
sha256sum filmcraft-0.4.0-linux-x86_64.AppImage         # Linux
certutil -hashfile filmcraft-0.4.0-windows-x64.msi SHA256  # Windows

Every earlier FilmCraft download is on the GitHub releases page.

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The screenshots are from the FilmCraft repository (MIT or Apache-2.0). The footage in them is in the public domain: NASA’s Apollo 11 film, Night of the Living Dead (1968), Carnival of Souls (1962) and Charade (1963).

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