Nonlinear Editor Lightworks has been around since 1990, but never gets the publicity of the other more well-known products like Avid, Final Cut, or AfterEffects.  A tool used by some of the biggest names in the field like Martin Scorcese and Thelma Schoonmaker,  it’s maintained the mantra of an editing system for editors, by editors.  However, now it has another fantastic feature to bring it to even more people: It’s going Open Source.

The big news here, though, is that Lightworks, a tool that many people have found to be the best editor in the category, is going open source. That means Windows, Linux and Mac versions will be available for free — a little bit of trivia that some editors might be ecstatic about.

via Lightworks : COWmunications feedback.