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Lightworks vs Cinelerra-GG Infinity

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When comparing Lightworks vs Cinelerra-GG Infinity, the Slant community recommends Cinelerra-GG Infinity for most people. In the question“What are the best video editors for Linux?” Cinelerra-GG Infinity is ranked 9th while Lightworks is ranked 11th. The most important reason people chose Cinelerra-GG Infinity is:

Compositing and previewing 1080p video works at a full 60 frames per second on moderate hardware.

Specs

Export audio formats Uncompressed HD 8 bit and 10 bit

Export image formats MPEG-2 I-Frame SD

Export video formats Uncompressed SD 8 bit and 10 bit

Import audio formats DVCPRO 50

Import image formats DVCPRO HD

Import video formats"DVCAM / DVCPRO 25

PlatformsWindows, Linux, Mac

Max resolution7680x4320

Supported platformsLinux

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Common Questions

What are the best video editors for Linux?

Pros

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Hollywood approved

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.

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Highly polished editing workflow

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.

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Fast

Compositing and previewing 1080p video works at a full 60 frames per second on moderate hardware.

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Create Clips From Source Files

Allows users to create clips of a specified portion of a source file from the preview window.

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Powerful Effects

Take the BlueBannana effect for example, it alone can both color correct, color shift, color mask (think chroma key), and give live statistics on the current frame.