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Olive Video Editor Tools
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.
The Olive Tools
Export Media
Format | Matroska Video |
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Codec | H.264 |
Encode Speed | Very Slow |
Compression Method | Target Bit Rate |
Bitrate | 8 Mbit For Full HD 1080p |
Pixel Format | yuv420p The improvement achievable using yuv422p is visually imperceptible and some players only support yuv420. |
YUV Color Range | Full (0-255) |