AphelionAbout Aphelion Editor
Aphelion Editor is a desktop, node-based video compositor and editor. It is developed by the Aphelion Engine project and distributed from GitHub, with a Windows installer and a Python source tree for macOS and Linux.
Project facts
- Product
- Aphelion Editor
- Version
- 0.1.2
- Kind
- Desktop node-based video compositor and editor
- Written in
- Python 3.11+, with a C extension for frame kernels
- Platforms
- Windows (MSI installer), macOS and Linux (from source)
- Built-in nodes
- 172 across 21 categories
- Source
- github.com/aphelion-engine/aphelion-editor
Where the project is
Version 0.1.2 is an early release. The node graph, timeline, keying, roto, tracking and export paths are implemented and documented, and the plugin SDK is published, but the project is pre-1.0 and APIs can still move.
The site is deliberately specific about what works and what does not. The known gaps as of this version are that the installable MSI is Windows only, that macOS and Linux run from a Python checkout rather than an installer, and that the plugin SDK covers video effects only — audio plugin bases are not shipped.
Source and reporting problems
Reading the source
The complete source is on GitHub. You can read it, and the architecture and plugin documentation are part of the published docs.
github.com/aphelion-engine/aphelion-editor
Reporting a bug
Bug reports go to the repository's issue tracker. A report that includes the version, the operating system, and the steps that reproduce the problem is dramatically faster to act on than one that does not.
Licensing
Aphelion is proprietary software, distributed under the terms declared in each package's `pyproject.toml`. No licence to reuse, modify or redistribute the source is granted by its availability on GitHub. If you need clarification before using Aphelion commercially, contact the maintainers.
The authoritative statement for any release is the licence field in that package's pyproject.toml. This page summarises it; it does not replace it.