Olive Video Editor

It's potentially a Premiere Killer

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

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)

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.

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.

the best VE for linux and great one for windows as well 0.2 seems stable and powerfull to me

It's a great project, but version 0.2, which is supposed to be "coming out soon", has been coming out for years now, but never has! meanwhile, the guy behind this project, has plenty of time to make amusing videos on his youtube channel, which is cool, and he's entitled to do what he wants with his time, and his editor is free and everything. But he shouldn't lie to people who install the software. Instead of saying "Coming out soon", he should say: "Not sure when I'll be serious about working on this project again, but given that I like spending hundreds of hours repairing junk hardware which nobody will ever use again, and making videos about it , I'm not really sure when 0.2 will come out. I like him, he's brilliant, but I wouldn't give him a job as the person responsible for serious sofware development...