Download Lightworks Linux Public Beta [Professional Video Editor]

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://www.lwks.com/">Lightworks</a>, a professional video editing and mastering software, is finally available for Linux, as a public beta.</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Lightworks has been used in renowned Oscar and Emmy Award award-winning films, including The King's Speech, The Departed, Mission Impossible, Pulp Fiction or Braveheart.</i></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9xjDCvRxPXGXc_1uXaRFNPTQE5JF9e-TWOTLW0Hrd8jYz-5Jqga5F38vbEPHq3w2DvHmRIP2spTTibpvjXxyaOPF4mJOBKdWJbvJ-pCAYnreVeGEttBDG8GLoWFilSk-i0q2YgVtzwwYa/s1600/lightworks-linux.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="lightworks linux" border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9xjDCvRxPXGXc_1uXaRFNPTQE5JF9e-TWOTLW0Hrd8jYz-5Jqga5F38vbEPHq3w2DvHmRIP2spTTibpvjXxyaOPF4mJOBKdWJbvJ-pCAYnreVeGEttBDG8GLoWFilSk-i0q2YgVtzwwYa/s320/lightworks-linux.png" title="lightworks linux" width="320" /></a></div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">Lightworks Beta for Linux has only been tested on <b>Ubuntu 12.04 and 12.10, Mint 13 and 14 and Lubuntu 13.04</b>. There are some unofficial Fedora rpm files but this is not an officially supported distribution. Also, there's a pretty big list of known issues and limitations for now, including:</div><ul><li style="text-align: justify;">support for only Nvidia and ATI graphics;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">64bit builds only;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">no AVI and H.264 MOV export option;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">AVI files may play back incorrectly with black flashing frames and there might be no audio for some uncompressed AVI files;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">PNG Image Sequences are slow to export;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">the record tool, playout tool will not be available in the current Linux Beta build of Lightworks. They will be added in a future Linux Beta build;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">no SDI or Firewire support;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">more.</li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">You can take a look at all these known issues on the Lightworks Beta for Linux downloads page.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Lightworks is free to use, but if you want extra codecs and support, you need to purchase a $60/year PRO license.</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">To be able to download Lightworks Beta for Linux, you need to register and agree to the Terms and Conditions:</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="http://www.lwks.com/betas-linux">Download Lightworks Beta for Linux</a> (deb only)</b></div><br />Submit feedback or bug reports for the Linux beta, <a href="http://dev.lwks.com/">HERE</a>.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>via <a href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTM2MTY">Phoronix</a></i></div>

Download Lightworks Linux Public Beta [Professional Video Editor]

Lightworks , a professional video editing and mastering software, is finally available for Linux, as a public beta. Lightworks has been used...

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