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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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Width x Height | 1920×1080 or 1366×768 |
Quality | 8-bit (1) |
Codec | H.264 |
Encode Speed | Very Slow |
Compression Method | Target Bit Rate |
Target Bit Rate (Mbps) | 8 or 4 Mbit (2) |
Maximum Bit Rate (Mbps) | 12 or 4 Mbit |
Two Pass | Yes |
Pixel Format | yuv420p (3) |
YUV Color Range | Full (0-255) |
Codec | Vorbis |
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Sample Rate | 48000 Hz |
Channel Layout | Stereo |
Format | Float 32-bit |
Bit Rate | 192 kbps |
- It is not clear what is that quality, may be it what ffmpeg calls bits_per_raw_sample. Our input footage is 8-bit, so we stay with it. We made some experiment with Olive and we found no differences on export
- 8 Mbit is suitable for an high quality video, Full HD 1080p, but 4 Mbit is acceptable for a normal quality video.
- The improvement achievable using yuv422p or yuv444p is visually imperceptible and some players only support yuv420.