Lightworks History

Lightworks is a pioneer in computer-based film editing and is being developed since 1989. Numerous internationally renowned and Oscar award-winning feature films, including Martin Scorsese's The Departed , Mission Impossible , Pulp Fiction ,Braveheart and Batman were cut on Lightworks and also the system itself has won numerous awards including the Oscar and the Emmy . The program is designed according to the announcement published in mid-2011 as Open Source will be released.

The development of Lightworks began around 1988/1989 in England. The design of the software was of cutters designed and implemented by programmers. This approach distinguished the editing system of the other pioneers of the non-linear video section as Adobe or Avid , which was then largely designed by programmers and technicians, and resulted, among other things, that the operational concept of Lightworks is still stronger in the classic film editing methods like the Steenbeck editing table modeled as typical methods such as in computer file dialogs. From the outset, supported the system also specially designed hardware controllers and control panels, control panels from which traditional cutting tables and television mixers are modeled and thus accelerate compared to the sole use of mouse and keyboard to work with the system. These additions are still optional.

In the 1990s the system was quickly spread, especially in the production of English and American feature films with high budgets. By many aspects, including the very high purchase price, had Lightworks outside of Hollywood and the movie production, however, considerably less spread than the most successful competitor and that their products are very much focused on the more technically much less demanding and also larger TV market.
In 1994, Light Works of Tektronix acquired, a provider of high-priced video very well and film products. 1999, after the NLE market grew, bought the management of Lightworks the rights to the software Tektonix again, and Lightworks changed its name again independently as Light Works It inc followed collaboration, distribution and sale of, inter alia, Fairlight , however, remained the most Users of Lightworks always remains largely in the "high end" niche of the feature film production, largely for cinema - although was constantly expanded the functionality of TV production.

EditShare 2009 bought the American company, whose products align very strongly on networking for all editing systems for TV manufacturers such as cinema, Lightworks.

In April 2010 it was announced that the release of Lightworks as open source it was intended - as the only professional editing and effects system. For TV and cinema post-production industry, this would be a novelty, because unlike, say, for office software ( OpenOffice ), operating systems ( Linux ) or media player ( VLC media player ) until then, there were no powerful editing systems with access to the source code.

Since April 2010, Light Works is in semi-open beta testing phase, the end of the 29 November 2010 is attached. During this period, around 1700 registered developers (firms and individuals) and about 25,000 users.



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