Oscar Award winning video editor goes open-source

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Post by ARR » Tue, Apr 13, 2010, 3:49 PM UTC

Oscar Award winning video editor goes open-source
editshare.com

Re: Oscar Award winning video editor goes open-source

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Post by jcl » Tue, Apr 13, 2010, 4:58 PM UTC

More details here: http://www.editshare.com/index.php?option=com_content&ta...

Summary: It's not out yet. No mention of the open-source license to be used, or whether they will be pursuing a "MySQL" model of charging commercial users (presumably not -- they already sell video storage hardware). The only mention of monetization is that there will be a "marketplace" for proprietary extensions.

Re: Oscar Award winning video editor goes open-source

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Apr 13, 2010, 5:01 PM UTC

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Re: Oscar Award winning video editor goes open-source

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Post by anigbrowl » Tue, Apr 13, 2010, 5:01 PM UTC

I hope it's better than their website...it's completely unusable under Chrome. But good on them, this is one area where OSS has been lacking up to now.

Re: Oscar Award winning video editor goes open-source

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Post by wallflower » Tue, Apr 13, 2010, 5:20 PM UTC

anigbrowl wrote: post #4

I hope it's better than their website...it's completely unusable under Chrome. But good on them, this is one area where OSS has been lacking up to now.

Obligatory GNU Emacs video editing reference:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=521548

Re: Oscar Award winning video editor goes open-source

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Post by zokier » Tue, Apr 13, 2010, 5:41 PM UTC

At least the "productions" page is impressive. Anyone has experience how usable it is for amateurs/hobbyists?

Re: Oscar Award winning video editor goes open-source

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Post by Sukotto » Tue, Apr 13, 2010, 5:48 PM UTC

I'm not going to fill out a form just to check out their software.

Re: Oscar Award winning video editor goes open-source

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Post by jasongullickson » Tue, Apr 13, 2010, 5:48 PM UTC

This is very interesting to me as we have been relatively happy using Final Cut to produce our films but it seems to lag behind a bit in adopting new technology and I'd like an open-source solution so we have more options available for doing distributed renders, etc.

Exciting...wish there was more information available!

Re: Oscar Award winning video editor goes open-source

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Apr 13, 2010, 6:18 PM UTC

Sukotto wrote: post #7

I'm not going to fill out a form just to check out their software.

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Re: Oscar Award winning video editor goes open-source

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Post by jamesbressi » Tue, Apr 13, 2010, 6:45 PM UTC

zokier wrote: post #6

At least the "productions" page is impressive. Anyone has experience how usable it is for amateurs/hobbyists?

Here is the list of productions edited on Lightworks...

http://www.editshare.com/index.php?option=com_content&ta...

Departed? Pulp Fiction? Oasis? Led Zeppelin? I'm in. My only question is were these and the others exclusively edited on Lightworks?