Which tool would have these?

Right now there is one really serious competitor coming out with it’s brand new open source non linear video editing product. I am talking about Lightworks` Oscar winnig Editshare which has been released open source last year. Feel free to discover their website http://www.lightworksbeta.com/ and tons of professional features it has. Yes this is not intended for video editing noobies but this is going to become a really brilliant piece of software for Lin/Mac/Win. Right now only Win version is accessible but:

Our progress with porting Lightworks to Linux and Mac OSX is something we get asked about every single day. We’re happy to report that we are making huge strides towards completing the port and we’re aiming to have the first beta release available on 19th December 2011.

Thanks,
M

Earlier on in this thread a poster asked a very simple question – what is the closest parallel to a *simple* editor like WMM. After having read all the comments I still don’t see a straightforward answer to that question.

I’m not trying to be rude in stating that, just trying to add a post to the thread that makes it simpler for people who might be in a similar boat to find the relevant info…

Without dropping into arguments of UI aesthetics or Cinelerra vs commerical software, which NLE, in your opinion, is the *closest* parallel to WMM?

Pierre and Megan, you’ve been trolling these comments for two full years, now. I can see, after carefully reading all of the commentary and the thought behind each of them, that you both are only here to troll and discourage. Neither of you have offered any real concrete proof of anything, and you’ve used smoke and mirrors to try to defend merely what are empty opinions. After two full years of trolling this particular page it’s about time you both got told to get a life.

The fact you both keep stoking flames that don’t need to be there or even that you start a whole new useless argument when none was there only says a lot about two people who have nothing better to do.

Please stop bothering people on this page. :)

Connect camera to your PC. Take any open source video editing software to edit the .ts files off the camera. Sorry, there’s a second challenge. You need to find software that can actually handle the .ts format.

OK, assuming you have the software, how long before you can actually start editing?
Once you can start, how fluid is the movement through the file? Is it quick enough to be productive? Or do you sit there waiting for 10 or so minutes as the software sorts itself out.

OK, as what we use in our office, bearing in mind that we need to do rapid editing and splicing of 1080p video from two fixed point cameras, we use http://www.womble.com/ DVD Wizard. The cameras (yes two) get plugged in, the files are dropped on the time lines and within seconds we can start editing. Moving through the files, editing and splicing, is fluid and quick. Rendering the final product is, of course dependent on format as you’d expect but we tend to batch our work and let the jobs run overnight.

We have other high end video editing software that is good at what it does but not nearly as quick as Womble’s software. Horses for courses.

Finally, I am a linux user and have been so for longer than most, given my age. If you can show me software that comes close to the utility and speed and reliability that we curently have for the Linux platform, we’ll change tomorrow.

That’s my challenge to you.

The end result may well be the same, or better according to you, but the time spent and higher blood pressure rates will be significantly more.