Tools and Projects Using OpenTimelineIO

OpenTimelineIO is used in a variety of other software and projects. If you know of any, feel free to add them to this list (in alphabetical order).

Playback/Review Applications:

• Cezanne - Media player and review tool.
• ftrack cineSync Play - Frame-accurate playback & review & tool.
• Hiero - Multi-shot management, conform, editorial, review and distribution workflows tool.
• mrViewer - flipbook, video and audio player, with OTIO support demonstrated here.
• OpenRV - A digital review tool for film, TV, and games
• RV - The commercial version of OpenRV (as of release "2022.0")
• tlRender - An open source library for building playback and review applications for visual effects, film, and animation.

Non-Linear Video Editors:

• Adobe Premiere Pro - Timeline import/export (beta)
• AVID Media Composer - Timeline export (preview)
• DaVinci Resolve - DaVinci Resolve 18 - supports OTIO and OTIOZ import/export in both the free and paid versions of the app.
• Kdenlive - KDE Non-Linear Video Editor - supports OTIO as of version 20.04
• Olive Free open-source non-linear video editor - supports OTIO import and export.

Other Applications/Plugins/etc:

• Altera - Metadata Management tool (coming soon).
• Blender VSE IO - Blender Video Sequence Editor add-on for importing and exporting various editorial interchange formats.
• EditReader - Animatic and animation production timeline manager, tracks timeline changes etc. Supports OTIO input and output in version 4.
• hiero-otio - Import and export OpenTimelineIO files directly in Hiero or Nuke Studio.
• Magla - A free SQL-powered data pipeline for animation and visual-effects freelancers and studios, with an emphasis on dynamically generated OTIO timelines.
• Matchbox - Change Management solution, aimed at anyone working in post production - compares two versions of a reel or episode and finds every cut change, VFX tweak or dialog slip.
• maya-otio - Maya plugin to import and export OpenTimelineIO files directly into scenes.
• Nuke Studio - Multi-shot management, editorial and compositing tool.
• OpenTimelineIO-Swift-Bindings - bindings for the Swift programming language.
• OpenTimelineIO-Unreal-Plugin - Plugin for Unreal Engine that provides a configurable framework and actions for mapping between an OpenTimelineIO timeline and a UE level sequence hierarchy.
• otio-cdl-adapter - Simple OTIO adapter for exporting .cdl files for each clip in an OTIO instance.
• otio-cookelensmetadata - A proof-of concept OpenTimelineIO adapter for the Cooke LMF lens metadata format.
• otio-drp-adapter - OTIO adapter for reading .drp files generated by the blackmagic ATEM ISO video mixer (https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/atemmini)
• otio-mlt-adapter - OTIO adapter for writing MLT Multimedia Framework files.
• otio-premiereproject - OpenTimelineIO adapter for at least reading Premiere .prproj files.
• protio - Premiere Pro OTIO Plugin
• Pype - Multi-platform open-source pipeline built around the Avalon platform, expanding it with extra features and integrations. Pype connects asset database, project management and time tracking into a single modular system.
• resolve-otio - An OpenTimelineIO plugin for DaVinci Resolve.
• Shot Manager - Shot Manager - Blender Add-on from Ubisoft.
• speech-edit - Automatically cut videos (especially vlogs and talking-head videos) using speech detection.
• UnrealOTIOExporter - Movie Render Queue Setting for Unreal (see also this tutorial/article by the author)
• Video Tracks - Video Tracks - Blender Add-on from Ubisoft.
• SG OTIO - An OpenTimelineIO ShotGrid Python Library