
When it comes to video editing, Blender has a capable NLE, but it is not designed as a full featured editor and lacks things like GPU acceleration. So it would seem that for professional editing one would have to sink $799 into Premier or get Final Cut Pro and be restricted to a Mac (oh the horror). So when I found Lightworks, I was thrilled to see that a fully featured, capable, proven Non-linear editor was leaping into the open source world! It has been used on some big movies such as “The Kings Speech” and
“Evan Almighty”.
Lightworks is my editor of choice for my live action editing projects. I have
edited quite a few short movies on this software and absolutely love it!
The official release is scheduled for November 29th 2011!
Edit: The official release date was previously stated to be ‘September 29th 2011.’ This is not the case. It now, correctly, reads ‘November 29th 2011.’
Edit 2: Unfortunately it appears that the official release of Lightworks has been postponed indefinitely. You can read their article here: http://lightworksbeta.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=122&Itemid=263