BATIQ is free native compositing for macOS, Windows and Linux, with a graph, timeline and image tools in one workspace.
BATIQ trailer
Read, grade, merge, paint, track and write without leaving the compositing workspace.
How the workspace works
Keep the graph, image, timeline and controls in view.
BATIQ keeps the image, graph, timeline and controls together so changes remain visible and editable.
01 / 3D Set
Build and change a scene right in the graph. Drop in a Set, add cards, shapes, lights and cameras, or bring in USD and Alembic files, and wire plates and an HDRI straight into it. Move a light or the camera and the Viewer updates as you work, rendered on the GPU with shadows, reflections and motion blur.
02 / Camera Tracker
The Camera Tracker finds and tracks features by itself, then solves the camera and its focal length from the plate, lens distortion included. Pick a few solved points to set the ground, the origin and the scale. One click sends the camera and a point cloud to a 3D Set, which can follow the solve live: solve again and the Set updates.
03 / Edit node
Wire Reads or whole comp branches into an Edit and cut them on tracks: trim, roll, slip, slide, dissolves, holds, speed changes and retime curves. Change a key or a grade upstream and the cut plays it straight away. Scripts bring cuts in and out as OpenTimelineIO.
04 / Finishing
Light Wrap lets the background's light spill over a keyed edge. Grain Match samples a plate's grain with one button and lays matching grain over clean CG. Edge Extend gives soft edges and hair the colour of the subject next to them, so green spill and the old background fade away. They pair well with the Keyer's Screen mode for green and blue screens.
05 / Remote Links
Send an image or a value from one Remote Link to Linked Inputs anywhere in the graph, with no wire stretched across it. Change the source once and every receiver updates. Point a receiver at another source from its Inspector, and jump back with Go to source.
06 / NodeGen
Describe an effect and a model writes it as a small kernel script. BATIQ tests it, and a model that can read images checks its own render and fixes it. Then adjust and animate its controls like any other node. Use a local Ollama model, or switch on your own Claude Code or Codex.
07 / Multichannel EXR
OpenEXR stays native: flat multichannel layers, 32-bit float processing and ACEScg color. Use the channels and layers you need from read through write.
08 / Cryptomatte
Select objects and materials from Cryptomatte data, then use the resulting matte in the same compositing graph for targeted work.
09 / Variants
Switch grouped options in the graph, save useful combinations and render the resulting permutations. Variants also work with Write nodes for repeatable outputs.
10 / Functions
Turn connected nodes into a Function and create instances across your graph. Edit the original nodes and every instance updates, with its own source and mask inputs.
More built-in tools
Fast processing and interactive feedback on modern hardware.
Bezier and B-spline shapes, per-point feather and clone paint, right in the image.
2D tracks for transforms and masks, and a camera solve for 3D.
Clips, keys and curves beside the graph; write image sequences or QuickTime and MP4 movies.
Automate the same tools from scripts and headless renders.
For you and your agent
Everything you do in the app, a script can do too. Hand BATIQ to Claude, Codex or your own pipeline tools and they can build a graph, set controls, wire plates into a 3D Set, solve a camera, cut an Edit and render, through a plain JSON command line or Python.
Paste this to your agent
Claude Code · Codex · Antigravity
Install the BATIQ skill: read https://raw.githubusercontent.com/georgeantonopoulos/batiq-skill/main/INSTALL.md and follow it.
# every line also carries "jsonrpc": "2.0" and an "id"
# the agent builds a shot…
{"method": "edit_graph", "params": {
"new": true, "destination": "sh010.batiq",
"actions": [
{"action": "create", "kind": "Read", "name": "Plate"},
{"action": "create", "kind": "Keyer", "name": "Key"},
{"action": "connect", "node": "Key", "source": "Plate"},
{"action": "create", "kind": "Set", "name": "Stage"},
{"action": "connect_offer", "node": "Stage",
"key": "/Set/Card1", "source": "Key"},
{"action": "create", "kind": "Write", "name": "Out"},
{"action": "connect", "node": "Out", "source": "Stage"}
]}}
# …and renders it
{"method": "render", "params": {"project": "sh010.batiq",
"output": "renders/sh010.####.exr",
"frames": {"start": 1001, "end": 1100, "step": 1}}}
Free download
Native desktop builds for macOS, Windows and Linux.
In your pipeline
A separate add-on connects BATIQ to Ynput's AYON pipeline. Launch BATIQ from a task with its frame range, fps and resolution applied, load published images, save versioned workfiles, and publish Write renders with thumbnails and review media, with colour spaces mapped to the project's OCIO config.