Lightworks For Linux

Lightworks is a professional-grade and commercial software that provides Hollywood-strength video editing, supporting mainstream operating systems and including a wide-range of powerful tools and functionality. It is also available to end-users as a free application with less features.

The free version of Lightworks is one of the most advanced video-editing applications, providing users with support for basic formats, including MPEG 422 SD and HD, as well as DVCAM and DVCPRO 25/50/HD.

The commercial version, dubbed Lightworks Pro, costs $30 (25 EUR/20 Pounds) per year and includes breathtaking features, such as AVID DNxHD encoding and decoding, Stereoscopic (3D) support, native H.264 and AVCHD support, Quicktime/MPEG-4 export, support for Blackmagic, AJA* and Matrox, and DVD-Video or Blu Ray export.

Lightworks was and it is still heavily used in Hollywood productions, for editing. Many blockbuster movies have been edited with this application, including The Departed, Braveheart, Jerry Maguire, L.A. Confidential, Goodfellas, Pulp Fiction, Chicago, The King's Speech, Good Will Hunting, Shutter Island, Bruce Almighty, Moulin Rouge, 28 Days Later, Mamma Mia, Gangs of New York, Notting Hill, Hugo, Hanna and Raging Bull.

Initially designed only for the Windows operating system, Lightworks is now a cross-platform software that runs on GNU/Linux, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X operating systems. At the moment, the software has been successfully tested with the Ubuntu, Lubuntu, Xubuntu, Linux Mint, Fedora and openSUSE operating systems.

On GNU/Linux, the application is available for download as binary installers for DEB and RPM-based operating systems. It has been engineered to support only the 64-bit (x86_64) instruction set architecture.