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Professional-grade Lightworks Open Source video editor to be released November 29th
If you've been waiting patiently to get your hands on a download, your wait is almost at an end. According to a letter sent from EditShare to the crew at Openite, Lightworks Open Source will be available on November 29, 2010. Lightworks is truly professional-grade stuff, with features like real-time audio and video effects, multi-track audio and voiceover tools, support for 3D projects, native 2K resolution support, and project sharing for multiple editors. The app has handled editing duties for a laundry list of big-time productions, which you can peruse over at the official site.
Initially, Lightworks will run on Windows XP or newer (both 32 and 64-bit versions). The community hopes to have a Linux port ready to go by late 2011
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Subscribe to commentsDavidNov 11th 2010 1:57PM
So is it coming out Nov. 22 as the post says or Nov. 29 as the heading says? Or am I reading something wrong.
RirathNov 11th 2010 2:16PM
I believe it's the 29th as said in the article. The 22nd is probably a typo.
Thanks for posting this - this is the first I've heard, but I'm definitely going to be trying this out. Our company does a lot of video editing and this looks like it trumps some of our current go-to software.
For me personally, I've been wanting a good, free video editor in Windows.
HanNov 11th 2010 3:30PM
Wow, this is really exciting. And Linux will finally get a good video editor, sometime next year!
ragtagNov 11th 2010 4:02PM
Well, there are a few high-end Linux video and color correcting suites on the market. They generally come with dedicated hardware, and cost more than your car though, so it's great to see an open-source alternative coming to Linux. It's also great that EditShare is behind it, as they make storage solutions for professional video editing, so are already in the business.
The only real open-source alternative on Linux at the moment is probably Cinelerra http://cinelerra.org/.
RahabibNov 11th 2010 4:46PM
@ragtag
I hope this turns out better than Cinelerra, Kino, Kdenlive, and the others you are likely referring to that are buggy, limited, and just not close to professional video editing tools.
As far as expensive video editing suites for Linux - I haven't seen one actually get to market, unless you know something I don't.
ragtagNov 11th 2010 6:31PM
@Rahabib
Examples of high-end video editing, color correction etc. tools on the market that run on Linux include Smoke, Flame, Baselight, DaVinci Resolve, Lustre and others. The price of these range between US$20.000 and "if you have to ask you can't afford it!"
Of the open-source video editors I've tried on Linux, I've been most happy with the sequence editor in Blender of all things. :)
HanNov 11th 2010 6:39PM
Are any of those actually video editors? Looks like it's all 3D and color correction.
NemanjaTGGNov 11th 2010 4:01PM
Awesome new!!! This really looks function and clean!I am not into video but i sometimes need something good.Hope this would be and of searching for me.