Free special effects software for windows

ArcSoft Magic-i Visual Effects 2 is a smart and simple webcam application designed to enhance users video chat experience through frames, effects, and themes. Using "Video Plug-in" technology, Magic-i Visual Effects 2 launches automatically when you start a video chat with any of your favorite chat clients, so you can apply fun effects simply and easily. Its also compatible with popular webcam applications like ArcSoft WebCam Companion.

Digital Effects for MSN Messenger 1.1.1033 is a future-rich and trustworthy program which produces special effects for video communication

PalMerge is an application designed to convert graphic file formats and has many special effects.
Main features:
- 6 formats: BMP, JPG, PNG, TGA, TIF, (PCX write-only)
- 26 special effects: oil paint, hole, polar wrap, sharpen, soften, color spray, tile, color threshold, wave, whirlpool, bleed, blur, brighten, darken, color edges, engrave, color adjust, jiggle, negative, mirror, noise, motion, mosaic, rotate, resize, contrast
- batch processing of image files
- color palette editor
- color palette extraction from bitmaps (BMP)
- palette building from multiple input files
- graphic image file viewer with zoom
- command line batch processing
- context sensitive help and hint pop-ups
- Install and uninstall

Ambient chorus / enhancer / stereo expander Hexaline plugin was designed to immediatly add warmth and complexity to the simplest sounds. With extreme settings, this effect can also generate special ambiences and bizarre sounds.
Main features:
- 3 stereo delays with cross-feedback
- Parallel or serial modes
- Up to +/- 100% feedback for ambient special effects

Wax is a high performance and flexible video compositing and special effects software. The idea for Wax is to be very general purpose and flexible in video compositing and effects, so that you can compose your dream video sequence with ease everytime.
Wax can create 2D & 3D special effects and can work in two modes - as a standalone application which would appeal for home users/beginners, and as a "plug-in" to video editors/NLEs which would be more useful for professional editors.
Right now Wax can work as a plug-in with Pure Motion EditStudio, Sony Vegas and Adobe Premiere and work for integrating with various other NLEs is underway.
Main features:
- Use graphics acceleration available with your video card for creating mind-boggling effects in realtime or near-realtime.
- Unlimited video and audio tracks with top-down compositing and many compositing modes (audio features are limited at this time).
- 2D and 3D Plugins and transitions for creating effects. Full featured 3D compositing with 3d objects, lighting, shadows, texture generators, etc. Plugins include the following.
- RotoMate - rotoscope/paint over video with fully keyframmable shapes and masks
- Shatter - create explosive effects
- ModelLoader - load 3d models from .3DS, .MD2 and .MS3d files
- Particle Generator - generate various natural particle effects like fire, smoke, rain etc
- Text 3D - create extruded/beveled 3D text, and much more...
- Plugin Adapter technology - can load and use VirtualDub filters, DirectX plugins, Freeframe plugins and Windows Movie Maker presets inside Wax or your NLE when using Wax as a plugin.
- Full featured project management with media bins/folders, element properties and comments for ease of use.
- Transition and Plugin SDK available for developers to extend functionality by adding external plugins. WinMorph uses this Plugin SDK to extend Waxs functionality for warping and morphing.
- File input/output through filters, Filter SDK available upon request for developers to extend file format support.
- Input formats : AVI, WAV, all popular image formats.
- Output formats : AVI, MPEG, WAV, Flash, all popular image formats.
- (AVI and WAV formats support compressed audio too, using Audio Codecs installed in your PC).