Timeline and transitions
As many video and audio layers as you need, with trimming, ripple delete, snapping and markers. Dissolves, wipes and slides between clips, crossfades between sounds.
Edit videos.
Animate your artwork.
Cut footage, add titles and captions, and animate layered Illustrator or SVG artwork — all on one timeline, on your computer.
Every AI tool runs on your computer. Your footage never leaves it.
Animate your artwork
Your layered artwork, brought to life
Design in Illustrator, Inkscape, Figma or Affinity, then animate it next to your footage: logo reveals, animated illustrations and title cards, without learning a compositing app.
- Layers stay layers: open an
.aior.svgfile and every layer arrives on its own track, exactly where you drew it. - No Illustrator needed: layered files come in as one picture or a sequence of their layers, and the Artwork assistant lets you reorder, rename and hide them, group them into sublayers and split a layer into its separate shapes.
- Animated in one click: describe a mood (playful, elegant, cinematic, bold…) and your logo's layers come in one after another, each in its own way. Try another for a fresh take.
- Or every move by hand: keyframe position, scale, rotation and opacity, with easing, overshoot, elastic and bounce.
- Charts that animate themselves: pick the Infographic mood and lines draw on, bars grow, rings and pies fill round and numbers count up to their value.
- Shapes and titles to go with it: rectangles, ellipses, stars, lines and arrows, and text that animates letter by letter.
- Ready for anywhere: drop the animation into any video, or export it as an MP4, a WebM with transparency or an animated GIF.
Made for
Logo revealsAnimated chartsAnimated illustrationsTitles and lower thirdsIntros and outrosExplainer scenesSocial postsAnimated GIFs
Opens
Illustrator .aiSVGPDFLayered or merged
Edit your footage
Everything an edit needs, nothing in the way
Drop your clips in and start cutting: the first one sets up a matching sequence. The AI tools here run on your computer, like everything else.
Colour grading, with AI tone
A good starting grade from the shot itself in one click, then wheels, curves, your own LUTs and live scopes to finish the look.
Remove backgrounds
Cut the subject out of a photo or the people out of a video, no green screen needed. Shot on green or blue? The chroma key removes it with clean edges.
Upscale, and enhance faces
Make old or small footage and photos two or four times bigger and sharper with AI, with a model for animation too. Enhance faces with AI restoration.
Speed, ramps and reverse
Slow motion, fast forward or a speed ramp that eases between them, smoothed from the motion itself. Play a clip backwards, sound and all.
Steady shots
Take the shake out of handheld footage, gently or as if it were on a tripod.
Masks, mattes and blend modes
Show part of a shot through a shape with a soft edge, put video inside a title, and combine layers with Multiply, Screen, Overlay and ten more.
Effects for the whole frame
Lens blur with real bokeh, sharpening, moving film grain and noise reduction, on one clip or, with an adjustment layer, on everything below it.
Nested sequences
Build a part once and use it in other videos as a single clip you can trim, animate and speed up.
Titles and text
Any font on your computer, with outlines, boxes and shadows, animated letter by letter, word by word or line by line.
Camera files and older computers
Plays ProRes, HEVC and 10-bit camera files, and adapts playback to older computers. Exports always use your originals, at full quality.
Autosave and crash recovery
Your project is saved as you work and offered back after a crash, with unlimited undo. Moved a project folder? Its files are found again.
Captions and clean sound
Captions in minutes, sound that's easy to listen to
The jobs that usually mean an upload to a website, done on your computer instead.
- Automatic captions: speech becomes timed, styled captions on their own track, in around 100 languages. Fix a word, restyle them, or save an .srt for YouTube.
- Pauses gone: cut the silences out of a recording in one step.
- A clearer voice: reduce background noise and even out the level in one click.
- Music that makes room: it dips under the voice by itself, and every beat can be marked for cuts to snap to.
On your computer
Captions, background removal, upscaling, face enhancement and AI tone all run on your computer, with the AI models included in the download. Nothing is uploaded, nothing needs an account, and they work with no internet connection.
Export
Out the door in the format you need
Auto-Match renders at your sequence's own size and frame rate, or pick a preset from 480p to 4K, vertical or square.
- Hardware encoding on NVIDIA, Intel and AMD graphics, for much faster H.264 exports.
- Export only In to Out, or save the frame under the playhead as a PNG in one click.
- Made from your originals: titles, colour, effects and nested sequences are rendered at full quality from your original files.
Video
MP4 · H.264MOV · H.264MOV · ProRes 422MOV · ProRes 4444 with transparencyWebM · VP9WebM with transparencyAnimated GIFNVENCQuick SyncAMF
Audio and stills
MP3AACOpusPCMPNG still32 / 44.1 / 48 kHzMono or stereo
Imports
MP4, MOV, MKV, WebM, AVI…PNG, JPG, GIF, WebP…Illustrator .ai, SVG and PDFMP3, WAV, FLAC, M4A…
Download
Coming soon
FrameAnvil isn't available to download yet. It will be at launch, with signed installers for Windows, macOS and Linux. Everything it needs, FFmpeg and the AI models included, will come in the download. To hear when it's out, email hello@frameanvil.com.
Linux
Ubuntu, Debian and most 64-bit distributions
Coming soon .deb for Ubuntu and Debian, and an AppImage for other distributionsOnce installed, FrameAnvil updates itself when a new version comes out. Questions? Email hello@frameanvil.com.
FAQ
Questions
How much does FrameAnvil cost?
FrameAnvil isn't on sale yet. At launch it will cost $39 once (no subscription), with every feature, no watermark and a 14-day trial. If you already use an early-access copy, it stays free for you on that computer. See Buy FrameAnvil.
Is there a time limit or a trial?
When FrameAnvil goes on sale, new users get a 14-day trial, after which their projects still open, edit and save and only exporting needs a licence. If you started using it during early access, it stays free on that computer.
Can I get a refund?
Yes. If FrameAnvil isn't right for you, email support@frameanvil.com within 30 days of buying for a full refund.
Can I make motion graphics with it?
Simple 2D ones, yes: animated illustrations, logo reveals, titles and explainer scenes. Import layered artwork from Illustrator or as SVG, and every layer gets its own track to animate with keyframes. For 3D, particles or complex effects you'd still want a dedicated tool such as After Effects or Blender.
Windows warns me about the installer. Is it safe?
Windows SmartScreen may warn when it doesn't recognize a program, which is common for new programs that few people have downloaded yet, whether or not there's anything wrong with them. The warning doesn't say a program is harmful, and installing it anyway doesn't make it safe: it's a sign to check where the file came from.
What we do: FrameAnvil will only be offered from app.frameanvil.com, over HTTPS, signed with a code-signing certificate that shows FrameAnvil as the publisher, and built by an automated release process that publishes a SHA-256 checksum for every installer.
If you're not sure, wait for a signed version, or ask us anything at support@frameanvil.com.
Does it upload my videos anywhere?
No. FrameAnvil works entirely on your computer, and your files never leave it. Everything it needs, AI models included, comes in the installer, and every tool works with no internet connection. The only things it does online are checking app.frameanvil.com for updates (which you can turn off) and, once you've bought a licence, confirming your key when you enter it and about once a week after that. See the privacy policy.
What do I need to run it?
A 64-bit computer running Windows 10 or 11, or a recent Linux distribution (macOS 13 or later when the Mac version comes out). 8 GB of memory is comfortable for HD editing; 4K benefits from more, and from a graphics card with hardware video encoding. Older computers work too: FrameAnvil fits itself to the one it's on (see below).
Playback stutters, or the window flickers. What can I do?
Usually nothing: while playing, FrameAnvil draws effects at ½ or ¼ of their size when the computer can't keep up (the Auto menu next to the timecode shows it, and lets you choose a size yourself). A paused frame and your exports are always full quality. If the window flickers or shows black or garbled areas, choose View › Graphics › Safer drawing, or No graphics card as a last resort; FrameAnvil also steps down by itself if your graphics card crashes. On Linux it draws through X11, which works with every graphics driver.
Will my exports use my graphics card?
For H.264 (MP4 and MOV), yes, when your computer has NVIDIA NVENC, Intel Quick Sync or AMD AMF. FrameAnvil checks which of them actually work on your machine, and falls back to software encoding automatically if one fails.
Can I open Adobe Illustrator and SVG files?
Yes. .ai files need Illustrator's "Create PDF Compatible File" option (the default); SVG files from Illustrator, Inkscape, Figma or Affinity work as they are. Layered files can come in as one picture or as a sequence with a track per layer.
What are the project files?
Projects are .fanv files that point to your media where it lives on disk, so they stay small. Move the whole project folder and FrameAnvil still finds everything; if a file is missing, you can locate it and the rest of that folder is found too.