System requirements this is cross platform software.

Your system must have one of the following operating systems:

• Microsoft Windows (7, 8, 10)
• Apple Mac OS X 10.6 or greater
• GNU/Linux 2.6.18 or greater (Glibc 2.12+, libgcc 4.4+)

Minimum system requirements:

• 3 GB of RAM ( 8 GB or more recommended)
• 5 GB (10 GB or more recommended) of disk space for caching and temporary files.
• Display with at least 1280 x 1024 pixel resolution and 24-bit color
• OpenGL 2.0 or higher with the following extensions:
  • GL_ARB_texture_non_power_of_two (Viewer and OpenGL rendering)
  • GL_ARB_shader_objects (Viewer and OpenGL rendering)
  • GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object (Viewer and OpenGL rendering)
  • GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object (Viewer and OpenGL rendering)
  • GL_ARB_vertex_array_object or GL_APPLE_vertex_array_object (OpenGL rendering only)
  • GL_ARB_framebuffer_object or GL_EXT_framebuffer_object (OpenGL rendering only)
  • GL_ARB_texture_float (OpenGL rendering only)

• 32 bits floating point linear color processing pipeline.
• Colorspace management handled by OpenColorIO.
• Dozens of file formats supported: EXR, DPX, TIFF, PSD, SVG, RAW,  JPG, PNG … and more.
• Support for OpenFX v1.4
• Intuitive user interface: Natron aims not to break  habits by providing an intuitive and familiar user interface. It is  possible to separate on any number of screens the graphical user  interface. It supports Retina screens on MacOSX.
• Performances: Never wait for anything to be  rendered, in Natron anything you do produces real-time feedback thanks  to its optimised multi-threaded rendering pipeline and its support for  proxy rendering (i.e: the render pipeline can be computed at lower res  to speed-up rendering).
  Multi-task: Natron can render multiple graphs  at the same time and make use of 100% of the compute power of your CPU.
• Network rendering: Natron can be used as a  command-line tool and can be integrated on a render farm manager such as  Afanasy.
• NatronRenderer: A command line tool for execution  of project files and python scripts. The command line version is  executable from ssh on a computer without any display.
• Fast & Interactive Viewer – Smooth & accurate  zooming/panning even for very large image sizes (tested on 27k x 30k  images).
• Real-time playback: Natron offers a real-time  playback with thanks to its RAM/Disk cache technology. Once a frame is  rendered, it can be reproduced instantly afterwards, even for large  image sizes.
• Low hardware requirements: All you need is an x86  64 bits or 32 bits processor, at least 3 GB of RAM and a graphic card  that supports OpenGL 1.5+ with some extensions.
• Motion editing: Natron offers a simple and  efficient way to deal with keyframes with a very accurate and intuitive  curve editor. You can set expressions on animation curves to create easy  and believable motion for objects. Natron also incorporates a fully  featured dope-sheet to quickly edit clips and keyframes in time-space.
• Multi-view workflow: Natron saves time by keeping  all the views in the same stream. You can separate the views at any time  with the OneView node.
• Rotoscoping/Rotopainting: Edit your masks and  animate them to work with complex shots
• Tracker node: A point tracker is embedded in Natron  to track multiple points. Version 2.1 of Natron will incorporate the  Tracker from Blender.
• Presets: Nodes presets can be imported/exported  easily with an XML file format
• Python scripting: Natron has made available via its  Python API most of its functionalities.
• Natron embeds a Python 2.7 interpreter that can be used to customize  the application.
• Multi-plane: In Natron all layers read from EXR’s,  TIFF’s or PSD’s are available as planes that each node can access. You  can also freely create your own custom planes. This allows for cleaner  graphs and more efficient work.   

Plugin Support ..

• RevisionFX products
• NeatVideo denoiser
• Furnace by The Foundry
• KeyLight by The Foundry
• GenArts Sapphire
• Other GenArts products
• Universe by Red Giant Software
• Ignite by HitFilm
• OpenFX-IO : to read anything else than standard 8-bits images.
• OpenFX-Misc : A set of basic nodes, such as Transform, chroma keyer,  etc.
• OpenFX-Arena : A set of extra nodes.
• OpenFX-OpenCV : A set of plugins based on OpenCV.
• OpenFX-Yadif deinterlacer : An open-source efficient de-interlacer.
• OpenFX-Vegas SDK samples
• OpenFX samples (in the Support and Examples directories)