EffectsCraft-OS4
Description:	The AfterEffects clone for OS4
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Size:	33Mb
Version:	0.1
Date:	27 Oct 2026
Author:	kikems / AmigaWave
Submitter:	kikems
Email:	kikems/mac com
Homepage:	https://youtu.be/ISkxHGIgPas
Requirements:	mesa lib and Clib4
Category:	video/edit
License:	GPL
Distribute:	yes
Min OS Version:	4.1
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EffectCraft for AmigaOS 4 - port 1.0 (unofficial)
==================================================

EffectCraft is an AfterEffects clone as open-source motion graphics and visual
effects compositor
(layers, keyframes, masks, effects, text, a timeline and a real-time viewer).
This is an unofficial port of EffectCraft 0.16.0 to AmigaOS 4 (PowerPC), made
by Kike (kikems-retro). It is based on EffectCraft by the ArtCraft team
(https://github.com/storytold/effectcraft) and is not made, endorsed or
supported by the ArtCraft team. Please report problems with this port to the
port's author, not to the ArtCraft team.


REQUIREMENTS
------------
- AmigaOS 4.1 (Final Edition recommended) on a PowerPC G3 or newer.
  Tested on an AmigaOne X5000.
- clib4.library (the clib4 C runtime), installed in LIBS:.
- mesa.library: Mesa 3D for AmigaOS 4 by kas1e (used for GPU rendering).
- A Radeon graphics card with a working Mesa/Warp3D Nova driver
  (tested with RadeonRX).
- About 2 GB of RAM. AmigaOS 4 gives every program one shared 32-bit
  address space, so EffectCraft limits its caches to stay under about 1.1 GB.


INSTALLATION
------------
Copy the EffectCraft drawer anywhere you like (it needs to be writable: the
program keeps its settings in the EffectCraftData drawer next to it).

Start it by double-clicking the EffectCraft icon. The first start takes a few
seconds while Mesa compiles its shaders.

To try it out, open the demo project: File > Open Demo Project (or Open Demo
Project on the
Home screen).


OPTIONS
-------
Set these with SetEnv before starting the program (or add them to
ENV:/ENVARC: to make them permanent):

  SetEnv AMIGA_AA 1      Smoother (anti-aliased) edges in the user interface.
                         Off by default because it is slower.
  SetEnv AMIGA_DIAG 1    Diagnostics: writes amiga_estado.log (memory, stalls,
                         frame timings) in the program's drawer. Useful when
                         reporting a problem.
  SetEnv AMIGA_MAX_FPS n Limit the user interface to n frames per second
                         (default 30).

Error messages are written to EffectCraftData/error.log; the session log is
kept in EffectCraftData too.


KNOWN LIMITATIONS
-----------------
- It is slower than on modern desktop computers: the user interface runs at
  roughly 25-30 frames per second on an X5000, and complex viewer renders
  take longer. "Fast Previews: Adaptive Resolution" is on by default to keep
  the viewer responsive.
- Very large projects or long previews are limited by the 2 GB address space;
  the frame caches are kept small on purpose.
- Online features (community links, Discord, web pages) are removed in this
  port.


SOURCE CODE AND LICENSES
------------------------
EffectCraft is licensed under the MIT License or the Apache License 2.0, at
your option (Licenses/LICENSE-MIT, Licenses/LICENSE-APACHE, Licenses/NOTICE).
The ArtCraft name and logos are trademarks of the ArtCraft team and are not
part of this package.

The bundled fonts (Inter, Noto Serif, JetBrains Mono) are under the SIL Open
Font License 1.1 (Licenses/fonts). All the Rust crates used, with their
licenses, are listed in Licenses/THIRD-PARTY-LICENSES.txt. The program links
clib4 (BSD-3-Clause, with openlibm): Licenses/LICENSE-clib4*.txt.

Source code of this port:
  https://github.com/kikems-retro/effectcraft-amiga   (branch amigaos4)
Original EffectCraft:
  https://github.com/storytold/effectcraft

Thanks to the ArtCraft team for EffectCraft, to kas1e for Mesa on AmigaOS 4,
to the AmigaLabs team for the Rust compiler for AmigaOS 4 and to the clib4
developers.