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-Chapter 1. Lightworks
-Strengths
-Powerful
-    All the essential video editing functions are present, in a professional
-    environment; in and out points, clip monitors and dedicated timeline
-    monitors, copious effects, clip bins, splicing, sliding, slipping, titling,
-    a full proxy system, auto saves, and much more.
-Industry-Grade
-    If you are used to working in the industry on professianl editing
-    workstations or a Steenbeck flatbed editor, this is unquestionably what you
-    are seeking. Lightworks takes an editing suite and puts it into your Linux
-    box, complete with timecode- and track- based editing styles, extensive
-    media management options, stable and high-quality effects, EDL import and
-    export, support for Final Cut and Avid format exchanges, and an over-all
-    lack of bloat that distracts from its streamlined purpose.
-Documentation
-    Very good video tutorials for Lightworks are available from Editshare, for
-    free, on youtube.com.
-Stability
-    Lightworks is focused and streamlined, tried and proven. It is a stable
-    editor, so much so that it is nearly a kiosk. Start it, and live in its
-    environment all day.
-Weaknesses
-Open Source..?
-    Lightworks has been around for three decades and has been used on a wide
-    variety of films, and although it was announced that it would be open
-    sourced a few years ago, the actual source code itself has so far not
-    surfaced. If you are only interested in finding a company in which you can
-    have confidence that it will not deprecate and abandon your project file
-    formats for years to come, then Lightworks is as good as some closed source
-    NLEs and quite a lot better than others. If you are looking far on open
-    source solution, then this is not yet the solution for you, although it is
-    still on the official Lightworks roadmap to formally release the codebase
-    (no word yet on what license it will use).
-Complex
-    If you are not used to traditional film editing, Lightworks may confuse you
-    initially. There will be a learning curve.
-Registration
-    Registration is required to use Lightworks. It is free to register, but you
-    do have to sign in.
-Conservatively Restrictive
-    Although it has full access to the same robust multimedia libraries that
-    everything else does, Lightworks only permits you to import a set of
-    codecs, and export even a smaller set. This makes it slightly more
-    predictable than an NLE that lets anything in, but it is a little
-    restrictive by comparison.
--bit Only
-    Currently, Lightworks is for 64-bit architecture only, so if you are
-    running a 32-bit install, you cannot run it.
-Heavyweight
-    Lightworks is not a lightweight or simple application. It officially
-    requires an Nvidia GPU running proprietary drivers (in practise, it can be
-    run on a good Intel graphics chipset, although it performs better on a
-    proper GPU), at least 3GB RAM (you want at least 8GB in practise), and even
-    suggests running the application from a separate drive than where your
-    media is located to minimise lag. It is intended to be an edititng station,
-    not a lightweight video app.
-See Also
-Kdenlive
-Blender
-Flowblade
-Lightworks is a video editing application aimed at the professional video
-editor. It is designed with a traditional film editing environment in mind and
-has been compared to non-digital platforms like the Steenbeck. While some NLE
-systems encourage "lifting" clips out of the edit to adjust them, or conversely
-to drop all clips into the timeline and use that space as a work table,
-Lightworks treats the timeline as a working draft of the completed project, and
-encourages users to unjoin splices just as one would unjoin splicing tape on
-real film, and adjust clips with slide and roll edits. It can be an efficient
-and technical way of editing, but to people who learnt editing by trial and
-error, it there is, realistically, a learning curve.
-The main advantage to Lightworks for the Linux user is that it is, all else
-being equal, inarguably the most polished and reliable option in terms of a
-complete professional editor. If you are looking for an NLE that works, which
-you can install and move on with your life, then Lightworks, combined with
-capable hardware, will put an end to your search. Lesser NLE-for-Linux attempts
-pale in comparison; it is probably the only NLE on Linux that will convince a
-doubtful prospective user that Linux can be a serious video editing solution
-(albeit in part by sheer intimidation of the application itself).
-This is not a sales pitch for Lightworks, however, and you should use whatever
-suits your own workflow. In fact, Lightworks is not quite open source yet
-(there is an as-yet undelivered promise to release its code), so if you want to
-use only free and open source software, then opt for something else.
-To install Lightworks, use Slackermedia's SlackBuild script, available from
-slackbuilds.org.
-It is required that you create a Lightworks account and sign into Lightworks in
-order to run the application, so make sure you at least launch Lightworks with
-an internet connection after installing it. After this initial launch, you do
-not need internet access for Lightworks ever again.
-Warning
-Editshare, the owner and proprietor of Lightworks, emails a newsletter to all
-account holders by default, and obviously Slackermedia cannot guarantee that
-they do not sell email addresses to advertisers. You may want to use a
-junk-mail email address or an alias account or a temporary address from a
-service like 10minutemail.com, or whatever you do to manage spam.
-Lightworks can be used for free, but there are also "pro" features (user
-defined project locations, sharing, timeline rendering, stereoscopic output,
-advanced export options) available for either a monthly subscription fee or for
-yearly or version-buyout plans. For comparisons between the different support
-options, see lwks.com.
-A very comprehensive set of tutorials from Editshare are available for free on
-their YouTube channel, https://youtube.c/m/user/editshare.