Adobe Premiere Pro CC  vs Lightworks

Easy to find tutorials, documentation and support.

This program is made to interact very well with the other Adobe production apps like After Effects, SpeedGrade, Soundbooth, Photoshop and others. Adobe programs can dynamically link with each other, so when an update occurs in Premiere it will update in other software accordingly.

Nvidia and ATI cards are supported.

Works on both Windows and OS X

Ensures that the latest version of the software is always installed. Allows saving preferences (such as workspace layout and keyboard shortcuts) in the cloud, so the preferences can be loaded on a different machine. Users can even download personal settings from each other.

Moving objects can be tracked using Premiere. Once an object is identified, certain effects (like face blurring) can be applied.

Multi-camera sequences can be created based on in or out points, timecode or even audio, allowing users to to edit multi-camera setup in real-time via keyboard or mouse. Additionally, Premiere can display camera angles as track or clip names.

An option called "Smart Rendering" will not re-render a file that is of a certain format that it also exports to, it will just tack it on, reducing render time and artifacts.

Technically up to 10240x8192px, but QUHD probably won't be a standard for a while.

Lightworks has been used to edit movies such as Wolf of Wall Street, 28 Days Later, Pulp Fiction, The King's Speech and many, many others.

Lightworks is very focused on just the editing workflow. It's full of functionality that eases the workflow. For example, media manager can be used to storyboard, "mark and park" can be used in timelines, cut points can be adjusted in 3 ways (end point of a clip without adjusting the start point of a clip that comes before it, start point of a clip without adjusting the endpoint of a clip that comes after it or start and end points of 2 joined clips at the same time) without shortcuts, just intuitively placed mouse hover points around the cut point. Such attention to detail is what makes it an efficient tool for editing.