Take a look at the Olive Video Editor which is still under development at the moment.
You would be amazed to see how easy and feature-packed this editor is. This is a review of Olive
0.2 video editor (alpha).
♞ Coming up on runboxing ♞
Before you proceed, a word of caution. Olive video editor is in the Alpha stage now (as
of making this video), the final stable release is yet to come. So, try not to use it for
serious work. Even if you do, take backups. it won’t work with open-source Nvidia driver
Nouveau at the moment. So, if you use Nvidia cards, make sure you have the proprietary
driver installed in your Linux system.
♞ Olive 0.2 Video Editor ♞
Olive is a free and open-source non-linear professional video editor. It is cross-platform
that means it can run in Windows, macOS, and Linux. Its first release came around Nov 2018.
And right now it is in the alpha stage.
Here’s a look at Olive Editor version 0.2 Alpha (unstable).
♞ Interface ♞
Depending on the video editor, the interface can be very complex. But Olive’s interface
is easy for first-time users as well as advanced users. It has a standard project window, timelines
with tools, preview window, parameter editor, and node editor.
All the necessary options are visible as a button or context menu – you do not need
to find any easy option in the menu items. Basic expectations from a user interface such
as drag and drop, scroll behavior – all looks familiar. So, if you are a new user,
you do not need to spend time learning the editor itself, let alone the features of the
editor.
If I compare Olive’s UI to other free same category editors in Linux, I feel the Olive
team did a better job of designing the UI from the very beginning.
The interface is powered by a Dark and Light theme both of which are great. Almost all
options can be easily handled by configurable keyboard shortcuts.
♞ Editing Features ♞
When I first looked at Olive, I thought how come all these features are so easy to add,
and why Olive is free! Other free video editors such as Kdenlive, etc are good for beginners
with the most basic effects and features. But the Olive team did it better. Many commercial
video editors are providing the same features as Olive with a price today.
Audio and Video: Timeline zoom, cut, slice, pan and zoom, transitions, scaling, rotation,
positioning, speed, quality.
Titles: Add easy text titles, font selectors, position, text effects (e.g. blur, etc), color,
font size, speed, solid color, solid and transparent background, etc.
♞ The powerful node editing ♞
The node-based compositing is what I feel makes Olive stand out from the rest of the
free editors out there. With its powerful node editing feature, ideally, you can do
anything possible. The node editor provides a visual representation of your timeline in
nodes and you can establish a relationship between them via mouse clicks.
And all these, you can do while the main preview is open. That means you do not need to jump
around multiple dialog boxes for settings changes. This makes the editor’s life easy.
♞ Disk Cache ♞
Whenever you make changes in your timeline while editing a video file, Olive quickly
works in the background and pre-renders the video based on disk-cache. That means when
you play the preview – it plays instantly without any need for pre-caching. This is
very useful and time saver for a complex project. The disk cache size can be specified by the
user.
♞ Color Management ♞
Color management is an important item in video editing. Hence Olive provides complete color
management based on OpenColorIO. Olive is capable of matching footage from multiple
cameras and export to different color spaces. Olive renders all images in half-float or
full-float.
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