Odyssey Design

One record model, seen four ways

Documents, sheets, decks and timelines are one kind of record viewed four ways. A new editor is a new kind, not a new table.

A script open in the document editor, with headings, body text and a live word count.

The video editor is not a demo

A multi-track non-linear editor written from scratch against ffmpeg. Every render is an argument vector you can print and read.

Any number of tracks

Clips sit at absolute positions, so a gap is a real gap. Drag to move in time or between tracks, drag an edge to trim.

Three video tracks and an audio track, with a selected clip, title clips and colour bars.

135

native effects across colour, image, stylise, geometry, keying, repair and audio, plus every frei0r plugin on the machine.

30: transitions
42: blend modes
28: curves

Keyframes reach ffmpeg three ways

Every numeric parameter keyframes. Each effect card says which route it took.

expr: per frame, where the filter takes an expression
sendcmd: timed commands at 20 Hz, where it does not
enable: gated instances, where neither works

The preview is the export

A live canvas compositor plays every visible track in order. Proxies keep 4K scrubbing responsive; the renderer never uses one, and a test enforces it.

The preview monitor showing the title card Tide series.

Six export profiles

H.264
H.264 draft
H.265
VP9 WebM
ProRes 422
MP3

Subtitles three ways

Left out, burned in after compositing, or carried as a selectable track.

Speed as a curve

Keyframe it and the clip ramps. Audio follows video through the ramp.

It runs on your machine and stays there.

There is no account to make and no server to reach. Every item lives in one SQLite file you can copy, back up, or open with any SQLite tool.

Installing, upgrading and removing the app never touch that file.

items     id, kind, title, body, data(JSON),
          due, project, timestamps

links     src -> dst, rel
          embeds and backlinks, both directions

sessions  item_id, start, end
          editing sessions, the basis for history

Install it

One self-contained file on Linux, or your own package manager. Nothing to compile, and no Rust or Node needed to install.

A single .run file carrying a prebuilt binary. It verifies its own checksum, opens a wizard, checks for the libraries it needs and offers to fetch any that are missing through your own package manager.

chmod +x OdysseyDesign_0.1.0_Linux.run

./OdysseyDesign_0.1.0_Linux.run

Installing just for you goes to ~/.local/opt/odyssey-design and needs no password. All users goes to /opt/odyssey-design and asks for one. On a machine with no desktop session, --text runs the same wizard in the terminal.

Download

Two AUR packages. odyssey-design-bin unpacks the released binary. odyssey-design-git builds from the current commit and needs Rust and Node.

yay -S odyssey-design-bin

paru -S odyssey-design-git

ffmpeg is a hard dependency and carries the renderer. Install frei0r-plugins as well for the extra effect library, and gst-libav to play H.264 sources directly in the preview.

Through winget or Scoop, both reading the same signed release artifacts.

winget install Fs1lyric.OdysseyDesign

scoop bucket add odyssey https://github.com/Fs1lyric/scoop-odyssey

scoop install odyssey-design

Not published yet The manifests are in the repository and the release workflow builds the Windows artifacts, but nothing has been submitted to winget or Scoop yet. Until it is, these commands will not resolve.

A Homebrew cask from the project tap, for Apple silicon and Intel.

brew tap fs1lyric/odyssey

brew install --cask odyssey-design

Not published yet The cask is in the repository and the release workflow builds the disk images, but the tap has not been published yet. Until it is, these commands will not resolve.

Requires Rust, Node, webkit2gtk and GTK 3. The video editor also needs ffmpeg and ffprobe on your path.

git clone https://github.com/Fs1lyric/odyssey-design

npm install && npm run tauri dev

The Rust suite includes end-to-end tests that generate real media with ffmpeg, render actual projects and probe the results. Run them with cargo test inside src-tauri.

Every file, with checksums, is on the downloads page.

What it does not do yet

This is a working first version, not a finished product. These limits are worth knowing before you install.

No collaboration

No accounts, no sharing, no presence and no sync. That is the design, not a gap waiting to be filled.

Some effects preview as exact frames

Crop, rotate, chroma key, vignette, masks and most colour work play live. frei0r plugins, LUTs, temporal filters and nested sequences show ffmpeg's exact frame while the playhead rests.

Linux is the tested platform

The test suite runs against webkit2gtk and GTK 3. Windows and macOS builds exist in the release workflow but have not had the same use.

Four editors. One database. No account.