Lightworks 2020.1 Beta Video Editor Brings Linux Improvements

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Lightworks 2020.1 Beta Video Editor Brings Linux Improvements

Lightworks 2020.1 is on the way as this professional-grade video editing system's first release of the year and a change in their versioning scheme. Out this week is the first public beta of the still-proprietary video editing system for Windows, macOS, and Linux...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Lightworks-2020.1-Beta

[elatllat]

Anything Blender can't do?

[shmerl]

So they never open sourced it despite the promises?

[TheLexMachine]

The code release was just something that they had on the roadmap in 2010 and it was taken off because they quickly had to incorporate proprietary and royalty-burdened licensed stuff to keep the professional product viable, as video cameras now have things like RAW video and brand-locked codecs and file formats.

[Luke]

In my world, any camera that can only shoot to a brand-locked codec with no FOSS implementations (legal or otherwise) is not usable and goes back to the store.