Olive: Professional open-source non-linear video editor

Re:Olive: Professional open-source non-linear video editor by tomduncalf on Sunday July 14, 2019 @04:29PM (#20435780)

Depends what you need to do I guess. ffmpeg or Handbrake are great for many tasks and would always be my first choice as they are so much quicker and easier to work with for simple things, but if you need to do some splicing together of footage, colour correction, etc. then really I think you need a visual environment to do it in above a certain point.

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Re:Olive: Professional open-source non-linear video editor by blattimwind on Sunday July 14, 2019 @04:51PM (#20435920)

I can't really imagine how you'd do video editing with scripts, unless you are emulating a linear editing workflow. But then I can't imagine how it would be time-efficient.

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Re:Olive: Professional open-source non-linear video editor by throwaway66666 on Monday July 15, 2019 @05:12PM (#20445323)

Well, I am not doing heavy weight editing or making movies. Most of the time I need to remove audio, resize and re-compress for web, cut the first and last seconds, or splice together 2 videos. Generate thumbs. etc.

I have also fully replaced image editors with imagemagick on the cli and some bash scripts.

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