
Lightworks is an Academy and Emmy award winning professional-grade video editor with over 20 years of history in the film and broadcast industry. It includes a full feature set of editorial tools from advanced trimming and media management, to stereoscopic support and realtime effects including multiple secondary colour correctors.


Kdenlive is an intuitive and powerful multi-track video editor, including most recent video technologies.



Cinelerra does primarily 3 things: capturing, compositing, and editing audio and video with sample level accuracy. It’s a movie studio in a box.


VLMC (VideoLAN Movie Creator) is a cross-platform, non-linear video editing software based on the VLC Media Player.




Cinefx (formerly Jahshaka) is a video and film compositing, editing and special fx system that uses OpenGL & OpenML hardware rendering to give operators real time interactivity. The system is cross platform, and also includes full CG, paint and image processing modules.



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