Testing #Lightworks 2026 beta on #UbuntuStudio #Linux now.
Looks like I gonna buy the upgrade for the perpetual license. My history with #LWKS is a bit of a difficult one. Being behind Resolve and many other professional #NLE tools, LWKS had improved quite a bit, but on the way introduced some bugs, one of them keeping me from editing completely. It took them a while, but eventually they had a new developer taking care of me and "my" bug and he finally resolved it, just when I was about to switch to Resolve. Yet Resolve on Ubuntu is a pain in the back, and it also has bugs that are nasty, and its free version won't even *read* h264/h265 (for most people equivalent to MP4). It is a lot more sluggish on my elderly Xeon workstation. Worst of all, I don't need it and I don't want to learn it at the moment.
The new Lightworks Beta looks pretty and I really like its layout editor with which one can create custom GUI layouts, like this FX editor of mine here.