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Olive is a non-linear video editor that aims to provide a fully-featured alternative to pro software. While currently in Alpha, I’ve been using it quite a bit and haven’t experienced any crashes or issues. I use it mostly for editing screen-captures of gameplay(1440p) and editing home videos(1080p). Playback is smooth and the feature set contains everything I need, and more!
Features Overview
Olive boasts a lot of effects for video input: blurs, color effects, distortion, frei0r video effects, keying, and stylization. Audio inputs have fewer effects built in: noise, pan, tone, and volume. If you have any VST 2.x plugins, you can load and use them. I have no idea what those are, so I’ve not used that feature at all, and can’t say anything about how well it works. The timeline dynamically creates layers as you add content, so if you want to stack a bunch of different clips on top of each other, you can.
Editing Content
The first clip you add to the media pool will set the sequence resolution and frame rate, but this can be changed by right-clicking on the Sequence clip in the pool and select properties. You can change the video resolution and this will change the canvas size. Any media already in the sequence will retain its original resolution, so if you have clips with a smaller resolution, they will show with space around the borders. Any added media will act the same way. Of course you can scale the display size up if you want it to be full-screen.
Media can be dragged directly into the timeline or into the media pool. Right-clicking on the clip will yield different results depending on its location. Changing the properties of clips in the media bin will not affect instances of that media already in the sequence, in like fashion changing the properties of clips in the sequence will not affect other instances of the clip in the sequence.
Content can be grouped and then treated as a single object, though some effects can’t be applied to media in groups.
The only included transition is a cross dissolve; if you want to do slides or wipes, that is possible by just animating the position and/or scale of the clip you want to transition to/from.
Olive includes a simple title editor, it lets you select color, font, font size, and a variety of effects. The only issue I found with it is that the text is bound to the canvas size, so scrolling credits are somewhat impossible to do. The workaround is to create an image with the credits and then animate its location, or do a series of titles and animate them all.
Animation
Any user configurable settings for the effects can be animated as well, so you can vary the intensity of the effect on a frame-by-frame level if you want. The keys themselves can be either linear, bezier, or hold – which lets you tweak your animation even more.
Output
When it comes to exporting your video, there is no shortage of output formats available to use. You can toggle the output of video and audio, and there are formats that support only one or the other. All the normal formats are supported, AVI, FLV, GIF, MP3, MPEG, OGG, MOV, WMV, and several other less common formats. You can set the resolution of the output and frame-rate in the export dialog. I’ve scaled down 1440p to 1080p and have seen no problems.
Links
Website: https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/