This is an overview of the tools available in Olive Video Editor version 0.2.0-55eedbfc (Sep 24 2023 1:40:23 PM).
Olive is a free and open-source cross-platform video editing application for Linux, Windows and macOS. It is currently in alpha. 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.
The home page of the project is at www.olivevideoeditor.org, you can download the source code from the GitHub repository.
Here it is a quick reference of the tools available in Olive; if you don't see the tools window in the user interface, enable it from the menu Window ⇒ Tools.
It seems that the Export media dialog box does not fully support the handling of presets: when you save and re-load a preset, not all the settings are restored (checked with Olive 0.2.0-55eedbfc). So it is best to check every settings before doing the final video export.
Here they are my preferred settings to produce HD-Ready 780p and Full HD 1080p videos.
Export Video | |
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Format | Matroska Video |
Width x Height | 1920×1080 or 1366×768 |
Quality | Full-Float (32-bit) (1) |
Codec | H.264 |
Encode Speed | Very Slow (2) |
Compression Method | Target Bit Rate |
Target Bit Rate (Mbps) | 8 or 4 Mbit (3) |
Maximum Bit Rate (Mbps) | 8 or 4 Mbit (3) |
Two Pass | Yes |
Pixel Format | yuv420p (4) |
YUV Color Range | Full (0-255) |
Color Space | Rec.709 OETF (5) |
Export Audio | |
Codec | Vorbis |
Sample Rate | 48000 Hz |
Channel Layout | Stereo |
Format | Float 32-bit |
Bit Rate | 192 kbps |