Lightworks is finally here!
Yes, the open source NLE is finally here, and with a new website.
For now it has only been released for Windows, but they promise they are working in porting it to Linux and then MAC. Good to see a professional video editing company that takes Linux into account.
Well, technically there’s Piranha HD and Autodesk Smoke for Red Hat, so I could say that finally we have an affordable NLE for Linux.
The sad part? My workstation at the office is a Mac Pro, and last time I tried to install Lightworks (beta at the time) in my Win 7 netbook it almost exploted. So I guess I’ll have to wait until Editshare releases it for Mac or I’ll buy a desktop computer with Windows 7 (I’ll probably wait).
So, how about you guys? Have you tried Lightworks?
Linux distros for videomakers? Yes, please.
So it’s been a couple of years for me in the magical world of Windows 7. Also, I’ve been working on a Mac, so (apart from my Android cell phone) I’ve not been using Linux very much.
I started checking distrowatch to check what’s up with Linuxland and I discovered that besides Ubuntu Studio (which apparently failed to deliver in its latest version), there’s two recent Linux distros amied to the multimedia producers and videomakers: Dream Studio and AVLinux.
They seem to be able to run from a pen drive, so you can bet I’ll be trying both of them in the next days. Interesting fact: they’re both made in Canada =)
If EditShare get its act together, we may add Lightworks for Linux to one of these distros and have a VERY powerful Linux workstation for digital content creation… for free and open source!
