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Olive Video Editor

Olive is a free non-linear video editor aiming to provide a fully-featured alternative to high-end professional video editing software.

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Cost / License

  • Free
  • Open Source

Application type

Alerts

  • Discontinued

Platforms

  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Linux
Discontinued

Olive is currently not being developed.

4.4
Very Good17 reviews
148likes
17comments
0news articles

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Properties

  1.  Lightweight
  2.  Privacy focused

Features

  1.  Non linear editor
  2.  Multitrack editing
  3.  Keyframe Animation
  4.  Multi Platform
  5.  Offline Data Collection
  6.  Support for Unicode
  7.  Node Based
  8.  Custom layouts

 Tags

  • video-processing

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Comment summary: Olive Video Editor is praised for its potential and ease of use, drawing comparisons to Premiere Pro. Users appreciate its functionality on Linux and Windows, noting its simplicity and power. However, concerns arise due to its alpha status, with bugs and slow development noted as drawbacks. While version 0.1 is seen as more stable, some users advise caution until a beta release is available.
Top Positive Comment
anoraktrend
15

It's potentially a Premiere Killer

Top Negative Comment
Cyber Nautilus
-2

It's still in alpha.

The stable version (0.1) is unsupported due to self-professed lack of resources, while the supported version (0.2) is unstable. Talk about choosing between the 'devil' and the 'deep sea'.

Stay away, until it crosses beta. Unless you have that risk appetite.

Vasudeo Sinha

I know that but now it is not crashing before it was but I must say that it has improved a lot

Richie Scassellati

I've just stuck to using version 0.1 whenever I feel like editing with Olive Video Editor because it's the most stable.

Pavlin Lazarov
0

Olive is a decent video editor for beginners, but have bugs which need to be fixed in the future.

mer2329
0

im a total video editor plebian noob and was able to do a simple edit. the goal was to mark a video to call out a game bug in a game im playing. had to extract a frame, anotate the frame and reinsert the anotated frame for a set duration. even a noob like me was able to do that. also nad to trim the excess footage. its also light weight with the current portable version weighing in at under 100 MB (i used version: 617ff876)

Review by a new / low-activity user.
hommegneu
0

Very promising, Olive has lots of potential as a video editor, though keep in mind it is still in an alpha state, and it shows. UI is nice, too.

PW_Info
-1

It's a good editor in general, very powerful, but it's full of bugs, which for me makes it unusable.

Review by a new / low-activity user.
Ituaf
0

I really wish I could recommend this as a marvelous video editor for everyone to use, but unfortunately it is riddled with bugs, largely due to the fact that it is still in alpha, and it seems that development is fairly slow, with a final release or, heck, even a beta release being far off into the future. If you're able to get past the bugs and adjust to them, then you'll find a fantastic yet admittedly not very feature-rich open-source video editor. Olive uses similar, or perhaps even the same, key binds that Adobe Premiere Pro uses, making it a great program to use if you would like to start learning video editing or are moving to Linux and in need of video editing software similar to something you may have used before. I find the workflow to be fantastic here and far better than that of other FOSS video editors like KdenLive and Shotcut. Overall, this is a fine piece of software that, no doubt, could become great in due time. Note: I recommend downloading version 0.1, as it is far more stable than Olive's nightly builds.

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What is Olive Video Editor?

Olive is a free non-linear video editor aiming to provide a fully-featured alternative to high-end professional video editing software. Olive is making rapid progress and users are already producing videos with it, but it's still currently in alpha meaning it is incomplete and not fully stable. Regardless we invite you to download the latest build and try it out for yourself. New features are being added every day. Even if Olive is missing something you need, come back in a month or two and it's possible it will have been implemented.

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Olive Video Editor information

  • Developed by

    Olive Video Editor
  • Licensing

    Open Source (GPL-3.0) and Free product.
  • Written in

  • Rating

    Average rating of 4.4 (17 ratings)
  • Alternatives

    118 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

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GitHub repository

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  •  602 Forks
  •  156 Open Issues
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Our users have written 17 comments and reviews about Olive Video Editor, and it has gotten 148 likes

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