Lightworks is a pioneer in computer-based film editing and has been in development since 1989.

Despite the move away from physical film stock – much editing is now based on digital media – devices such as the Lightworks non-linear film editing controller and archives still use the Steenbeck physical layout for controlling the process.

There are four versions of the product, namely Caddie Professional ( the full version ), Caddie Budget ( the lite version ), Caddie Vio ( for photo-realistic rendering, based on Lightworks ,) and Caddie Educational, which is licensed to students even though it has all the functionality of Caddie Professional.

Content is ingested and recorded natively with the appropriate codec which will be used by video editing software such as Sony Vegas, CyberLink PowerDirector, Avid Technology's Media Composer and Xpress Pro, Apple's Final Cut Pro ( FCP ), Adobe Systems's Premiere, and EditShare's Lightworks to manipulate the captured footage.

In August 2009 the UK and US based company EditShare acquired Gee Broadcast and the Lightworks editing platform from, along with their video server system GeeVS.

Using a control interface similar to the industry standard Steenbeck flatbed controller, Lightworks was designed to be a non-linear editing system.

Under Gee Broadcast ownership, new product releases resumed with the release of the Lightworks Touch range, and the Alacrity and Softworks ranges for SD & HD editing.

Softworks offered the Lightworks User Interface and toolset in a software only package for laptops or office workstations.

On November 9th 2010, EditShare announced that Lightworks would be downloadable on November 29th of the same year, at first exclusively for the users who had registered during the initial announcement, but subsequently publishing the software as " public beta ".

After a 18-month beta program, EditShare released Lightworks 11 for Windows only on the 28th of May, 2012.

The non beta release of Lightworks includes a host of new features for editors, and runs on wide range of PC hardware.

But the M-JPEG data rate was too high for systems like Avid on the Mac and Lightworks on PC to store the video on removable storage, so these used fixed hard disks instead.

* Multi-pass Rendering for Lightworks rendering engine with output to Photoshop layers integrated into TrueSpace7

The digital revolution has made the video editing workflow process immeasurably quicker, as practitioners moved from time-consuming ( tape to tape ) linear video editing online editing suites, to computer hardware and video editing software such as Adobe Premiere, Final Cut Pro, Avid, Sony Vegas and Lightworks.

The digital revolution has made the offline editing workflow process immeasurably quicker, as practitioners moved from time-consuming ( video tape to tape ) linear video editing online editing suites, to computer hardware and video editing software such as Adobe Premiere, Final Cut Pro, Avid, Sony Vegas and Lightworks.

Editors using Lightworks have produced numerous internationally renowned and Oscar and Emmy Award award-winning feature films and television programs, including The King's Speech, Martin Scorsese's Hugo and The Departed, Mission Impossible, Pulp Fiction, Braveheart and Batman.

Hong Kong: Lightworks Press, 1997.

In 1999 it was sold on to the newly formed Lightworks Inc., then owned by Fairlight Japan, and then purchased by Gee Broadcast in May 2004.

At the annual convention of the National Association of Broadcasters, NAB Show, on 11 April 2010, EditShare announced that they plan to transform Lightworks into Lightworks Open Source.

* Lightworks Beta site ( defunct, redirects to lwks. com now )

By the mid-1990s, flatbeds were increasingly replaced by computer-based non-linear systems such as Avid and Lightworks.

They performed in the Ann Arbor area from 1973 – 1976, and their only release was a one-hour cassette of their recordings available only through Lightworks magazine.

I believe it is an area in which professional planners have failed to set adequate guide posts ; ;

Above all, he is a person to whom a fledgling Representative can go to discuss the personal and professional problems which inevitably confront a new Congressman.

He is a member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, London, a registered professional engineer in Connecticut and Ohio, and a chartered electrical engineer in Great Britain.

Unless you want to make your wife a pool widow and to spend a great many of your leisure hours nursing your pool's pristine purity, its care and feeding -- from pH content to filtering and vacuuming -- is best left to a weekly or bi-monthly professional service.

The collective by which I address you in the title above is neither patronizing nor jocose but an exact industrial term in use among professional thieves.

The capacity of intellectuals and members of the new professional classes to contribute creatively to national development is likely to be destroyed by a constraining sense of inferiority toward both their own political class and their colleagues and professional counterparts in the West.

My aim in mentioning this factor obviously is not to give license to `` wild therapy '' but rather to encourage us to use the time-honored clinical casework skills we already possess, and to use them with greater confidence, precision, and professional pride.

That a writer who is gay cannot be serious is a common professional illusion, sedulously fostered by all too many academics who mistakenly believe that their frivolous efforts should be taken seriously because they are expressed with that dreary solemnity which is the only mode of expression their authors are capable of.

The resident staff is large and consists of professional assistants, graduate students, abstractors, librarian, technical editor, machine operators, secretarial help, and others.

At a minimum, recording -- usually on tape, which is now in wide professional use -- brings the psychiatric interview alive so that the full range of emotion and meaning can be explored repeatedly by the therapist or by a battery of therapists.

Since it is a purely professional situation, none of the pain is associated with love-making or the beloved.

The husband is usually a well-educated professional, preoccupied with his job -- often an organization man whose motto for getting ahead is: `` Don't rock the boat ''.

Today many college bound students try to take a course in personal typing, as they feel a certain degree of mastery of this skill is almost essential for one who proposes to do academic work in college and a professional school.

Skorich, who is 39 years old, played football at Cincinnati University and then had a three-year professional career as a lineman under Jock Sutherland with the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Today however, the `` outsider '' is likely to have professional qualifications of the highest order ( otherwise the college would not be interested in hiring him ) and to be acclimatized to the democratic processes of the secular or state university.

Within the membership of this group, as has been found true of men in other professional or trade associations, the most ready portrayal of oneself to `` the public '' is that of a neutral agent simply serving the interests of a seller or buyer and mediating between them.

Obviously what we are confronted with here is the identification of `` professional '' with narrow skills and specialization, the effective servicing of a client, rather than responsiveness to the wider and deeper meaning and associations of one's work.

and, most pervasively, ( 3 ) their interpretation of who is a `` real pro '', of what it means to be a professional man in a technical, fragmented society.

Under the surface of the wide range of folk movements is apparent a sound technical ballet training, and an equally professional sense of performing.

In 2009, the American Anthropological Association's Commission on the Engagement of Anthropology with the US Security and Intelligence Communities released its final report concluding, in part, that, " When ethnographic investigation is determined by military missions, not subject to external review, where data collection occurs in the context of war, integrated into the goals of counterinsurgency, and in a potentially coercive environment – all characteristic factors of the HTS concept and its application – it can no longer be considered a legitimate professional exercise of anthropology.