Calling Lightworks an “award-winning open-source video editor” currently is a lie. A code drop was planned for 2011 and it was postponed indefinitely. They have never released any source code since then. It is my hope that you will read this blog post with an open mind, and that you might see where I’m getting at with the last section.ĮditShare announced in 2010 their intention to make Lightworks “open-source” someday, and that’s it. Furthermore, if it ever is open-sourced, it most likely won’t be anywhere close to a truly open project.įrom what I’ve seen by reading the comments on these articles, the Lightworks forums or elsewhere, it seems that those who point out the very issue that I’m about to explain are routinely labelled as ungrateful, arrogant freetards or considered trolls to be banned.
I would have thought they would have grown more careful with time, but the situation has generally not improved, to the point where I am now compelled to say this now, officially, in public: Lightworks is currently not open-source and never has been. However, after all these years, most of the blogs or news sites (including the most popular ones) still don’t bother checking for factual accuracy and just blindly accept what corporate press releases would have them believe. So far, I didn’t blog about this (because frankly, life’s too short to be pessimistic, and I was also quite curious as to how it would play out and wanted to give EditShare the benefit of the doubt-after all, I’m a fan of video editing software in general). I’ve seen everybody hail Lightworks as the messiah that will make all other open source video editors irrelevant.
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