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Lightworks Video Editor To Go Open Source

Posted by timothy on from the retreat-to-the-beowulf-cluster-for-rendering dept.

Art3x writes "EditShare will release its video editor as open source this summer. Lightworks handles high-definition media, DPX, and RED, shares projects with Final Cut Pro and Avid, and was recently used by Academy-award-winning editor Thelma Schoonmaker on Shutter Island. Introduced in 1989 and bought by EditShare last year, it 'has come from over one million hours of software development,' says EditShare's James Richings. But he says releasing the source will 'generate concepts and capabilities never seen before. I expect that the Lightworks Open Source initiative will transform not only the technology, but also the opinions on what a professional editing tool can achieve.'" From the press release's description, it sounds like the "open source" phase will follow a period of free-as-in-beer downloading.

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  1. Great something by ooshna · · Score: 5, Funny

    People can use instead of their stolen Adobe Premiere programs.

    1. Re:Great something by copponex · · Score: 2, Funny

      Psshh. Have you ever tried to edit AVCHD in Premiere? It's like dragging an anvil through frozen molasses.

      We're all pirating Final Cut on our Hackintoshes. Duhhhhh...

    2. Re:Great something by h4rr4r · · Score: 4, Funny

      For an illiterate you made quite an insightful comment.

    3. Re:Great something by cupantae · · Score: 5, Funny

      Thanks. Martha reads out stories and comments. Then I dictate replies of my own.

      [Please help me. He has me locked in his basement and the smell is horrific!
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  2. Be warned by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    You can edit RED with the open source version, but you have to pay if you want to edit blue or green.

  3. Good troll! by Colin+Smith · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'll push it a little further by saying. What really makes Richard Stallman the true genius behind Linux is not his code or gcc, but the little bit of virus he put in every GPL.

    How's that sound?
     

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  4. Re:Depends... by gyrogeerloose · · Score: 4, Funny

    I refuse to ever use C/C++, because I consider its outdated design [...] and its inelegance and programming inefficiency to be a pain to my brain.

    No problem. All Lightwave development is done in LOGO. Just tell the turtle what you want it to do.

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  5. Re:Sure beats what I've been using by icebraining · · Score: 3, Funny

    I use ffmpeg "-ss" and "-t" options to splice videos, you insensitive clod!

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  6. Re:Depends... by h4rr4r · · Score: 3, Funny

    Your comment is beyond awesome. That comment makes the FSM smile upon you and will get you closer to an eternity spent in the shadow of the beer volcano and within walking distance of the stripper factory.