Professional video editing with Lightworks 12
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Lightworks, the professional video editing program that has been used on Hollywood blockbusters, now runs on Linux. However, its many possibilities can only be fully exploited on powerful computers.
Vendor EditShare offers its Lightworks video editing program [1] in two versions: a freely available "Free" edition and a commercial "Pro" edition, which you can either subscribe to or buy. The subscription costs $24.99 per month or $174.99 a year. The unlimited license costs $437.99.
The Free version differs from the Pro above all in its export options: Although the free edition produces only MP4 and H.264 video up to 720p resolution, the Pro package offers other encoding formats and various formats for exchanging data with editing systems and cameras, including Blu-ray and DVD export. The Free version also lacks some special editing features.
The system conditions for Lightworks are quite challenging [2]. The manufacturer recommends a 64-bit system with an Intel Core i7 or a similarly fast AMD CPU, 3GB of RAM, two displays with a resolution of at least 1980x1080 pixels, and a graphics card by NVidia or AMD, including proprietary drivers. Lightworks will not even launch if you have Intel graphics. On our test system with Ubuntu 14.10, the installation worked without any complications, although several software packages needed to be installed manually for a lack of automatic dependency resolution.
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