We'll keep you posted on the latest developments from EditShare and Lightworks. However, the Pro version contains different features like wider codec support and increased performance, which may be worth your while. The free version certainly packs a punch (with a price tag like that, it certainly doesn't have to - but it does) and is worth checking out. All of this buzz about it being released for Mac is only going to revive it all the more. It had fallen by the wayside once competing NLEs Avid and Final Cut Pro came on the editing scene, but after being acquired in the summer of 2009 by EditShare, it appears that this fading editing software has been brought back to life.

Lightworks has been in the industry for almost 25 years and has been used on Hollywood films, like The King's Speech and The Departed. We don't want to end up giving them something that isn't up to their expectations. We need to make sure that this is going to be what they expect from us, so we want to make sure we get it right. We want to make sure with the Mac version that we're going to get - our Mac audience is going to be pretty unforgiving. We're hoping to get closed out for a group of testing done in 1 to 2 months, and then we're going to go to a public beta - exactly the same as we've done with the Windows version: alpha then public beta then go to release. We're going to make an announcement in the next few weeks after NAB.

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