Olive: [Discussion] What features will be included in the first release

[malnaanah]

First, I would like to express my gratitude for the developer of Olive that he listens to our feature requests and implements them as quickly as he can. Big thanks.

Second, I would like to ask what features will be implemented in the first release and if there is a road map for the future additions to Olive.

So far, even if Olive is in alpha release, it has great design principles and I am sure it will dominate other editors as long as new features are added and the developers listen to the end users and implements their requests.

Regards,

[elsandosgrande]

My guess would be that it's too early to tell at this point.

[Brimson]

My speculation is that there will be

• Complete OCIO/OpenCV implementation
• A ton more shader effects (perhaps the folks down at ShaderToy can have fun with Olive)
• Further hardware acceleration (if this is possible)
• Further code refactoring to allow other contributors to dive in. Not a feature, but a nice one for people behind the scenes.

I predict that a first proper stable release would be in a couple of years. You bring up a good point though, I hope the Olive Team has some sort of organized to-do list with what they are doing. Hope all goes well :)

[malnaanah]

I think wipe transitions should be given a priority too.

[DaniSeeh]

@malnaanah I think Wipe transitions should be lower priority than Masking since you could just animate your own wipes if you had Masking. I mean, you already kinda could do that but it would be really difficult as opposed to a few second process.

If Masking also is animate-able with the Graph Editor you would have pretty fine-toothed control over the wipes too

@BrimsonBhin I wonder how much better Hardware Acceleration could possibly get, but I do think automatic timeline pre-rendering will improve the perception of performance a lot, since after you watched something stuttering a few times it would get better until it had perfect playback. This is how Premiere handles it I believe.

[malnaanah]

I totally agree, masking is more needed and could be used to create wipes. I wonder how long it might take before it get implemented.

[itsmattkc]

Pretty much what @BrimsonBhin said with a handful of others people have mentioned (e.g. masking, transitions, etc.), but I'm leaning heavily towards a rolling release strategy meaning there won't really be a "first release" per se. It's probable there'll be a point where stable/dev branches are separated, which I suppose you could call a "first release", but I don't really see it as working towards a "1.0" as much as I see it as perpetually improving with certain priorities.

[itsmattkc]

Any further discussion of this nature can happen in the Discord I think.