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.
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.
I spoke to their web-dev - apparently the menu was built before Chrome was released, hence the compatibility issue. I've been assured that it's near the top of the to-do list.
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!
The Lightworks Softworks brochure lists Windows XP Pro as a minimum system requirement. Of course, open-source software tends to go cross-platform; for example, Blender was once proprietary and Unix-only.
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[ 2.9 ms ] story [ 45.5 ms ] threadSummary: 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.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=521548
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?
Exciting...wish there was more information available!
The Lightworks Softworks brochure lists Windows XP Pro as a minimum system requirement. Of course, open-source software tends to go cross-platform; for example, Blender was once proprietary and Unix-only.