Only came across this a few days ago although it is kind of old news. Did a general search for Lightworks on Indytalk and very little was returned. This is kind of surprising, maybe people don't realise the significance.
Lishtowks is being release free/open source. It is a top end/prod editing solution which has been around as long as Avid and is loved by top editors. It has been used for big budget/Oscar winning films (shutter Island, The Kings Speech, Pulp Fiction, Hitch-hikers Guide to the Galaxy...).
I have downloaded it and it is very different to Avid/FCP/Sony Vegas. If it was new people may be talking about a paradigm shift. Rather than having a predefined general layout you start with a blank canvas - a Desktop you can put various things on. In actual fact you have as may desktops as you like (they are called rooms).
The other thing people seem to like is its rock solid approach to saving - basically you do not have to! It auto-saves every keystroke and it it does crash (which apparently on the production version is very rare) it restarts within 15 seconds with your project open and nothing lost.
Strangely enough most of the complaints I have found are about it requiring a rather high spec PC for open source software (this is top end editing software and the spec is a lot less than Sony Vegas) - this is pro software what do you expect. I think it is a lower spec than Cinerela.
The other complaints are about not having a Linux Mac OS X version - we are at beta stages of a software that was originally windows. give them a change- I think they want to get the Windows version sorted before porting.
Just to end up I think it is worth mentioning a couple of things. It seems to support a lot of high end formats like RED and the collaboration features are second to non (I cant quite work out if you need to buy extra software to do this bit...). You can have multiple people editing and share the same media/timelines etc. The way it works is one person owns each timeline and can pass it to another. Everyone can see all edits to all timelines in near real time.
I think it may even do more in real time then FCP.
Not sure why more people are not talking about it here, maybe they think because it it aimed at feature films it is too hardcore
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This was written in a bit of a hurry but would be interested in if people have tried it/what they think.
Here are a few links.
Main website - http://www.lightworksbeta.com/
Demo - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gCDFfXUcGk
Why Open Source - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpf-ZR4X5oI
Fairly detailed article - http://library.creativecow.net/battistella_david/lightworks/1
Ben
Lishtowks is being release free/open source. It is a top end/prod editing solution which has been around as long as Avid and is loved by top editors. It has been used for big budget/Oscar winning films (shutter Island, The Kings Speech, Pulp Fiction, Hitch-hikers Guide to the Galaxy...).
I have downloaded it and it is very different to Avid/FCP/Sony Vegas. If it was new people may be talking about a paradigm shift. Rather than having a predefined general layout you start with a blank canvas - a Desktop you can put various things on. In actual fact you have as may desktops as you like (they are called rooms).
The other thing people seem to like is its rock solid approach to saving - basically you do not have to! It auto-saves every keystroke and it it does crash (which apparently on the production version is very rare) it restarts within 15 seconds with your project open and nothing lost.
Strangely enough most of the complaints I have found are about it requiring a rather high spec PC for open source software (this is top end editing software and the spec is a lot less than Sony Vegas) - this is pro software what do you expect. I think it is a lower spec than Cinerela.
The other complaints are about not having a Linux Mac OS X version - we are at beta stages of a software that was originally windows. give them a change- I think they want to get the Windows version sorted before porting.
Just to end up I think it is worth mentioning a couple of things. It seems to support a lot of high end formats like RED and the collaboration features are second to non (I cant quite work out if you need to buy extra software to do this bit...). You can have multiple people editing and share the same media/timelines etc. The way it works is one person owns each timeline and can pass it to another. Everyone can see all edits to all timelines in near real time.
I think it may even do more in real time then FCP.
Not sure why more people are not talking about it here, maybe they think because it it aimed at feature films it is too hardcore
.This was written in a bit of a hurry but would be interested in if people have tried it/what they think.
Here are a few links.
Main website - http://www.lightworksbeta.com/
Demo - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gCDFfXUcGk
Why Open Source - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpf-ZR4X5oI
Fairly detailed article - http://library.creativecow.net/battistella_david/lightworks/1
Ben
