Olive (software)

Free video editing software

Olive

Screenshot

Olive interface

Developer(s)| Olive Team
Initial release| 2018; 7 years ago (2018)
Stable release|

0.1.2 / November 11, 2019; 5 years ago (2019-11-11)[2]

Preview release|

0.2 Alpha[1]

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]

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

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Olive has the following features:[11]

* Intro/outro sequences
* Cutting with Razor, Ripple, Slide, and Slip tools
* Support for picture-in-picture or side-by-side clips
* Hardware acceleration
* Watermarking

## History

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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

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Unsupported

Supported

Latest version

Preview version

Future version

Version | Release date  | Notes

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Unsupported: 0.1 | 2 May 2019[12] | Initial release
Unsupported: 0.1.1 | 9 July 2019[12] |
Latest version: 0.1.2 | 11 November 2019[12] |
Future version: 0.2 | December 2019  | Added or improved features:[10]

* Node compositor
* Color management using OpenColorIO
* Disk cache

## See also

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* Free and open-source software portal

* Comparison of video editing software
* List of video editing software
* List of video editing free software
* Non-linear editing system

## References

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1. ^ "Olive - Professional Open-Source Video Editor". www.olivevideoeditor.org. Archived from the original on 2020-10-27. Retrieved 2020-09-22.
2. ^ Olive 0.1.2 release on github.com
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. ^ a b c d e Olive - September 2020 Update on patreon.com
11. ^ Prokoudine, Alexandre (20 December 2018). "Introducing Olive, new non-linear video editor". librearts.org. Retrieved 2025-04-12.
12. ^ a b c Olive's list of on github.com

## External links

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