Has some features Lightworks does not like video stabilization.The best open-source video editor I have tried (others I tried included Cinelerra, Kdenlive, Openshot).Not a big deal - the WAV files are bigger but they don't take up very much space in comparison to video of course. When I re-exported them as WAVs in Audacity and then imported them into Lightworks, the problem disappeared. I verified this my listening carefully to the playback in Lightworks and with a media player.

Had this weird bug that seemed to introduce sound artifacts with my narration when I imported them as MP3s.

Volume and fade in/out very easy to manage Keyframes for effects is really easy to use and has a graph editor for visual effect transitions.Has basic colour grading, effects such as tone curve, sharpen, text.Seems to happen fairly regularly when I reduce a 60fps clip to 30fps for slow-motion effect It is a very intuitive editorĭuring a single 2-3 hour session in the editor, sometimes it would just lock up. The editing, putting clips together is very refined.

A very polished editor, definitely more polished that Shotcut.

I did not yet try 10-bit files on either. Before anyone asks, the reason I did not include Davinci Resolve in this comparison is just because my computer doesn't have enough juice to run it, haha! (I probably should upgrade one of these days.) Shotcut has 4K output and is an open-source editor. Lightworks is a paid editor but I was just giving the free version a trial, which outputs to 720p maximum. So, this is a quick comparison between Lightworks and Shotcut.

Lightworks review