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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.

3 of 205 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Companies Have Caught On To The Viral GPL Garba by h4rr4r · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    All the important open source commercial products are free BSD style licences

    And that is your list of important products?
    HAHA

    OSX- used by no one in the enterprise and pointless as a server OS

    Chrome: a browser with no marketshare, even opera is more popular

    Chrome OS: will be linux, meaning GPL kernel!

    LLVM: nice idea, but no one is using it.

  2. Re:No Wonder GPL Software Is Such Garbage by h4rr4r · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Oh no an internet toughguy!
    An anonymous one at that, what a surprise.

  3. Re:No Wonder GPL Software Is Such Garbage by __aasqbs9791 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Well, you have to admit it's hard being a touch guy when you're 5'2, weigh 80 lbs and are 12 years old.