Premation is a free After Effects you actually own
Premation
Almost every animated logo and title card you’ve seen came out of Adobe After Effects. It’s powerful, and you rent it forever. Premation is a free one you actually own.
A full desktop editor for animated graphics
A full desktop editor for animated graphics.
Premation is a full desktop app that does the same kind of work as After Effects. And it opens straight into the editor, with no account, and nothing to sign up for.
The After Effects workflow, free and yours to keep
The After Effects workflow, free and yours to keep.
The catch with After Effects is the subscription. You pay every month, and when you stop, it’s gone. Premation opens with the same panels and shortcuts, so if you know After Effects, you already know this. Except Premation is free, and it’s yours, on your own machine.
One engine draws your preview and your export the same way
The frame you preview is the frame you export.
Here’s the genuinely clever part. In most animation tools, the preview is a rough approximation, and the export is a separate render, so the file can look a little different from what you scrubbed. Premation draws both with one engine. Your preview and your export run the same code, on the same frames. And it times each frame by its number. Every frame’s moment is its number divided by the frame rate. And the frame rate is just how many still pictures make one second of video. Same math, every time. So the preview is the finished frame. And export the same project tomorrow, and you get the exact same video, frame for frame.
Open source to run yourself, plus a cloud app with the AI
A complete editor, and one maker just shipped it.
So what makes Premation genuinely yours? It’s open source. The whole editor’s code is public and free, so you can run it on your own machine, and no company can ever switch it off or take it away. There’s also an AI helper that builds animations from a plain-English description. It’s part of the ready-made cloud app, separate from the open build. And Premation is brand new, built by one person. The editor already does a huge amount, and it’s aimed at replacing After Effects. It’s just early on the way there.
Yours today on Windows and Mac, with Linux soon
Yours today on Windows and Mac, with Linux soon.
It’s made by a solo developer named Jon. The open version is free to run yourself, for good, and the ready-made cloud app is free to start.
What you see is exactly what you export, and it's yours
Premation
So there’s a free After Effects you actually own, where the frame you preview is exactly the frame you get.
