FAQ — Natron 2.5.0 documentation

# FAQ

## Can I use Natron for commercial work?

Yes. Anything you create with Natron is yours and you’re free to do anything you want with it.

## What operating systems are supported by Natron?

Natron officially supports:

- Windows 7, 8 and 10 with latest service packs.

- MacOSX 10.6 or greater

- Linux 2.6.18 or greater (Glibc 2.12+/libgcc 4.4+)

## Why did you make Natron free of charge?

Our original motives were to create a tool for people who needed it and that may felt left-aside by the software editors pricing plans, that is:

- Students who want to learn compositing at home

- Schools that may not be able to buy expensive software licenses

Another reason why Natron was developped mainly at INRIA is because a compositing software is a playground that enables scientists in computer vision/graphics to develop, test exchange and publish results easily on such platform.

One great mission of a free open-source software is to aim to create common practises so everyone can benefit of it.

On the other hand, being free of charge, Natron can be installed on large-scale render farms without wondering about licensing issues.

## What is OpenFX?

OpenFX is a standard for creating visual effects plug-ins for compositing and editor applications.

As of today several applications are compatible with this plug-in format: (meaning you can use the same plug-ins in all of them)

- Nuke 5.1+, by The Foundry

- Vegas 10+, by Sony

- SCRATCH 6.1+, by Assimilate

- Fusion 5.1+, by Blackmagic Design (formerly by eyeon)

- DaVinci Resolve 10+, by Blackmagic Design

- DustBuster+ 4.5+, by HS-ART

- Baselight 2.2+ by FilmLight

- Nucoda Film Master 2011.2.058+

- SGO Mistika 6.5.35+

- Autodesk Toxik 2009+

- Avid DS 10.3+

- Natron

- ButtleOFX

- TuttleOFX

## Can I use commercial and proprietary plug-ins within Natron?

Yes. Natron doesn’t limit you to open-source plug-ins.

## Is my graphics card supported?

An OpenGL 2.0 compatible graphics card is needed to run Natron (2.1+) with hardware-accelerated rendering. Other graphics cards work with software-only rendering (see below).

The following graphics cards are supported for hardware-accelerated rendering:

> - Intel GMA 3150 (Linux-only)

> - Intel GMA X3xxx (Linux-only)

> - Intel GMA X4xxx (Windows 7 & Linux)

> - Intel HD (Ironlake) (Windows 7 & Linux)

> - Intel HD 2000/3000 (Sandy Bridge) (Windows 7/Linux/Mac)

> - Intel HD 4000 and greater (All platforms)

> - Nvidia GeForce 6 series and greater

> - Nvidia Quadro FX and greater

> - Nvidia Quadro NVS 285 and greater

> - ATI/AMD Radeon R300 and greater

> - ATI/AMD FireGL T2-64 and greater (FirePro)

Cards not listed here will probably not support hardware-accelerated rendering.

On Windows and Linux you can enable software rendering. On Linux, enable the environment variable LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 before running Natron. On Windows, enable the legacy hardware package in the installer.