Olive (software)

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Olive
Developer(s) Olive Team
Initial release2018;7 years ago (2018)
Stable release
0.1.2 / November 11, 2019;5 years ago (2019-11-11) [1]
Preview release
0.2 Alpha [2]
Repository https://github.com/olive-editor/olive
Written in C++
Operating system Linux, Windows, macOS
Size 52–108 MiB (varies by operating system) [3]
Type Video editor
License GNU GPLv3 [4]
Website www.olivevideoeditor.org

Olive is a free and open-source cross-platform video editing application for Linux, Windows and macOS. [5] [6] [7] It is currently in alpha. [8]

Contents

It is released under GNU General Public License version 3. It is written in C++ and uses Qt for its graphical user interface, FFmpeg for its multimedia functions, OpenImageIO library, OpenColorIO for color management and CMake build system for configuring. [9]

The plan of the development team is to combine complete color management, a fast and high-fidelity half-float/float-based render pipeline, node-based compositing and audio mixing, and a highly efficient automated disk cache all together in the one program. According to the development team, this batch of features is one "no other NLE - not even commercial - has tried to do". [10]

Features

Olive has the following features: [11]

History

Olive 0.1 was in development for a year before it was published. The original author said that the program itself was his first C++ and his first large-scale programming project. Due to being inexperienced the author says that a lot of programming and video handling mistakes were made. It is known to be unstable. Since the code base of 0.1 wouldn't allow planned features and because the development team saw that the "codebase was full of problems that made it unsustainable", the program had to be rewritten from the ground up. [10]

Version 0.2, unofficially known as The Rewrite, is not officially released yet, nightly builds can be downloaded and tested. It is also planned to add support for OpenTimelineIO. [10] It lacks support for files generated by version 0.1 but features several improvements.

The far future version 0.3 is planned to improve project management features allowing users to pre-cache only the parts of a video needed. It is also planned to improve the integration of multiple projects making collaborative work easier as well as improving the render pipeline for network rendering to allow multiple computers working together rendering the same project for preview caching and for export. [10]

Release history

Release history
Legend:Old version, not maintainedOld version, still maintainedCurrent stable versionLatest preview versionFuture release
Version Release dateNotesScreenshot
Old version, no longer maintained: 0.12 May 2019 [12] Initial release
The user interface of 0.1 Olive video editor Alpha 0.1.0 2019-04 1e3cf533.png
The user interface of 0.1
Old version, no longer maintained: 0.1.19 July 2019 [12]
Current stable version:0.1.211 November 2019 [12]
Future release: 0.2Not released yetAdded or improved features: [10]
  • Node compositor
  • Color management using OpenColorIO
  • Disk cache
The user interface of 0.2 Olive video editor Alpha 0.2.0 2020-09 3103359.png
The user interface of 0.2

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References

  1. ↑ Olive 0.1.2 release on github.com
  2. ↑ "Olive - Professional Open-Source Video Editor". www.olivevideoeditor.org. Archived from the original on 2020-10-27. Retrieved 2020-09-22.
  3. ↑ "Olive - Professional Open-Source Video Editor". www.olivevideoeditor.org. Retrieved 2020-09-23.
  4. ↑ Olive's licence file on github.com
  5. ↑ "Olive: a free non-linear editor for Windows, Mac, Linux". magazine.renderosity.com. Archived from the original on 2021-11-20. Retrieved 2020-09-22.
  6. ↑ Prokoudine, Alexandre (20 December 2018). "Introducing Olive, new non-linear video editor". librearts.org. Retrieved 2025-01-06.
  7. ↑ Prakash, Abhishek (30 January 2019). "Olive is a New Open Source Video Editor in Development". itsfoss.com. Retrieved 2020-09-22.
  8. ↑ "Olive official site". Olive. Retrieved 25 May 2020.
  9. ↑ "Olive - Professional Open-Source Video Editor". www.olivevideoeditor.org. Archived from the original on 2021-11-02. Retrieved 2020-09-22.
  10. 1 2 3 4 5 Olive - September 2020 Update on patreon.com
  11. ↑ Prokoudine, Alexandre (20 December 2018). "Introducing Olive, new non-linear video editor". libregraphicsworld.org. Archived from the original on 2018-12-20. Retrieved 2020-09-22.
  12. 1 2 3 Olive's list of on github.com
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