Avidemux, Flowblade and Olive: 3 alternative free video editors
Over the past 3 months (October, November, and December 2024) we've brought you a great series of posts about the most popular and widely used free, open source video editors in the Linuxverse. And in it, we've timely covered the current features and latest developments in the following applications: Kdenlive, Pitivi, OpenShot, Shotcut y Lossless CutHowever, there are other less famous and advanced (complex) video editors that can be just as useful for many audiovisual content creators, regardless of their level of experience, which we will discuss in this post. And these are the following: «Avidemux, flowblade and Olive».
Although, it is worth mentioning that, Avidemux and Flowblade have a bit more historical background, and for this reason, we have already addressed them before in previous publications. While, Olive is a much more recent development, which is still in a long stage of development. Therefore, this will be the first time we will address it. However, as a relevant historical fact about it, it is important to mention that, according to its developers, since the release of its first alpha/prototype version released in 2018, it has been recognized within the open source community as one of the most capable open source editors of its time.
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But, before we start exploring and unveiling the current features and latest news about these 3 useful and interesting free, open source video editors called «Avidemux, Flowblade and Olive»We recommend you explore the previous related post With this series of publications on these multimedia tools, at the end of it:
Avidemux, Flowblade and Olive: 3 free, open source video editors
What's new about Avidemux, Flowblade and Olive in late 2024?
Avidemux
- Official Web site
- Outstanding features: Avidemux stands out for being a simple tool for simple video processing tasks. And for this, it offers the typical functions of cutting, pasting, deleting and joining segments of one or more videos to create a new one, in addition to allowing the conversion of a video to a different video format and its compression to a smaller size, without major loss of quality. It also includes a set of basic filters, which facilitate deinterlacing or resizing tasks, as well as subtitling and color correction tasks, among others. Finally, it works in two basic modes: Copy mode (without encoding and loss of quality) and encoding mode (recoding of the audio or video tracks, with possible loss of quality).
- Latest version available: Avidemux 2.8.1, released on September 9, 2023.
- Latest news: Among the many new features incorporated in this latest version, some stand out such as a new set of buttons compatible with HiDPI, various and notable improvements in the audio treatment section, a 3-band Equalizer and new filters available (3D LUT, Decimation and Arbitrary Rotation).
Avidemux is a free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks. It supports many file types, including AVI, DVD-compatible MPEG files, MP4 and ASF, and uses a variety of codecs. Tasks can be automated using projects, job queues and powerful scripting features. Additionally, it is available for Linux, BSD, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows under the GNU GPL license. The program was written from scratch by its developer (Mean), but it also incorporates code from other people and projects for its development. Explore Repository
flowblade
- Official Web site
- Outstanding features: At the workflow level, it offers a great set of tools with 6 editing tools, offers a composition mode by sequence and allows you to configure many of the timeline behaviors. While, at the editing tools level, it incorporates the traditional Move, Insert, Spacer, Multi-trim, Cut and Keyframe functions. And among many others at the timeline work level, it includes some useful ones such as being able to perform actions such as Insert, Append, Overwrite Range and Overwrite Clip to add clips to the timeline; Drag and drop clips onto the timeline; and split, view and mute any audio or audio fragment of a video.
- Latest version available: Flowblade 2.16.3, released June 10, 2024.
- Latest news: In this latest available version (2.16.3) the visual failure of the G'Mic tool and the regression of the multimedia elements pop-up window have been corrected. However, in the previous ones of the current series (2.16.X) there were others such as the correction of a motion tracking bug, and the addition of new video and audio filters (Alpha Shape Motion Tracked, Image Alpha, Image Luma or Color Select. Alpha Shape Motion Tracked; and Rubberband Octave Shift. New Rubberband Pitch Scale audio filter.).
Flowblade is a multi-track non-linear video editor released under GPL3 license. Practical for all kinds of users, from beginners to experts, it is able to help anyone realize their desired vision of their multimedia content (video, image and sound). And it is able to support all media that are generally accessible on a Linux system when the FFMPEG library works as a backend. Highlighting currently, it currently supports or is compatible with 146 formats, 78 video codecs and 58 audio codecs. Explore Repository
Olives
- Official Web site
- Outstanding features: Since it aims to make life easier for professionals, prosumers and independent filmmakers by making large projects with complex compositions as manageable as possible, it offers key features of any conventional video editing software, but also some features of its own that have never been seen in any video editor before. One of the highlights is its rendering pipeline, with which, step by step, it can be modified, rearranged or augmented to achieve the results the user desires. And its control is provided through a node-based compositor, which is the gold standard for compositing workflows in the visual effects industry. By adding and connecting nodes to each other, users “visually program” how their video and audio are generated and processed.
- Latest version available: Olive 8ac191ce (0.2.0), released December 4, 2024.
- Latest news: For this latest available version, the possibility of being able to customize the action to expose ACTIONS_RUNTIME_URL, from different deployment folders for macOS, has been incorporated.
Olive is the world’s most open video editor. From its fully configurable rendering pipeline to its open source codebase, every aspect is designed to give users as much control as possible over their work and workflow. In a world where most professional video editors lock their functionality behind paywalls, paid subscriptions, and platform exclusivity (or all of the above), Olive aims to provide complete, unconditional freedom with no compromises. Explore Repository
Summary
In short, with this The latest and most recent post in our ongoing series on the most popular and used video editors, where we have addressed multimedia tools «Avidemux, Flowblade and Olive», and others like Kdenlive, Pitivi, OpenShot, Shotcut and LosslessCut, We hope to have positively contributed to the dissemination and use of these free, open source projects of the Linuxverse in the multimedia field. And that this has a direct impact on their continued activity and development in favor of their user communities, creators of multimedia content.
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