Lightworks Video Editor To Go Open Source

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.

Comments

Re:Analogy Pendant

[uglyduckling]

Beer is free when someone gives it away. You get the liquid but not the recipe. That's the point of the analogy.

Re:Great something

[ZaphDingbat]

I agree completely, which is why I'm actually in the middle of writing one for Linux (+ maybe other OS's). A lot of work.

If anyone's interested, I'm working on a two-fold project: a video framework that works in 4:4:4 linear floating-point RGBA with OpenGL acceleration, and a video editor built on top of it, all scriptable via Python.

The framework is coming along nicely. I've just begun on the editing interface. You can see recent (but not current) framework code at: http://www.fluggo.com/redmine/projects/show/fluggo-media

I would be absolutely happy for someone to take the framework and build their own editor on top of it. I would love to provide support for that case. If anyone's interested, drop me a line at brian@fluggo.com.

Re:No doubt, will equal GIMP

[socceroos]

I'm not sure when the last time you checked was - but Blender 2.5 is under heavy development at the moment - a revamped GUI is one of the major features. Also worth noting is that the GUI is written in Python and is detached from the backend Model-View style. It is highly customisable now - and the default looks and works well. You'd be happy to know that fully customizable keyboard shortcuts are also available - with presets.

The Durian team (CC movie by the Blender Institute) is a mix of the best Blender Artists working with the best Blender programmers - makes for startling progress and practical workflow.

Go have a look at a current Blender build from Graphicall.org - I think you'll be surprised. Let me know! =)

Re:Analogy Pendant

[NotBornYesterday]

Sure. Basic beer brewing equipment is pretty much the same as basic wine equipment.

• 2 x 5 - 6 gallon containers & little airlocks (either plastic buckets with lids and/or glass carboys with stoppers; stoppers/lids need to be drilled for airlocks)
• rigid tube and flexible tubing for siphoning from one container to another, and into bottles.
• a hydrometer is helpful, but not strictly necessary

You will also need:

• about 50 clean & sanitized 12 oz beer bottles (pop-off, not twist-off, brown glass is best since light harms beer)
• ~2 gallon cooking pot (preferably stainless steel, aluminum is okay, enamel over steel is okay as long as there are no chips in the enamel - you do not want to expose your beer to regular steel; it will cause flavor problems)
• bottle capper (you'll probably need to buy this, a wine bottle corker generally won't do the job)

You can get prepackaged ingredient kits or order a la carte. For $30 - $45US, you should be able to get a kit that contains the following, which should be all you need to brew 5 gallons of beer:

• malt extract syrup and/or dried malt extract
• hops
• dried yeast
• muslin bag
• priming sugar
• bottle caps
• perhaps additional misc stuff
• instructions

There are homebrew books that are helpful in figuring out what to do and how to do it. In my experience, This is one of the best out there, and I highly recommend it for brewers of all levels. Fortunately, there is a huge amount of excellent info freely available on the internet. (Google, as always, is your friend)

The outdated look of hbd.org is misleading - you'd never know that it holds an excellent beer recipe development tool (click on "Spreadsheet") and recipe database.

Forums worth checking out:
http://www.thebrewingnetwork.com/
http://www.homebrewtalk.com/

Good luck to you, and enjoy!