Installation is quick and easy, although you need to register to activate Lightworks. What's more, those experienced with non-linear video editing will find plenty of advanced features to produce a polished video, even in the free version reviewed here. But don't go thinking that long list of award-winning film credits means it's for professionals only: the free version of Lightworks is generally consumer friendly and will be more than enough for most basic editing tasks. The software has a strong heritage in filmmaking, with Pulp Fiction, Jerry Maguire and The Wolf of Wall Street just a few of the many movies that have been edited on it.

HDD space: 200MB for Lightworks installation Misc: Separate media and system drives (these can be internal or external as long as the the interface is suitably fast compatible sound card GPU: PCI Express graphics card (NVIDIA or AMD) with 1GB or higher and support for DirectX 9 OS: Windows 7/8/10 Mac OS X 10.11 (El Capitan) and higher Linux Supported RPM Distros: Fedora 30 and higher Linux Debian: Ubuntu/Lubuntu/Xubuntu 18.04 & higher, Mint 17 & higherĬPU: Intel i7 chipset or faster, fast AMD chipset

Lightworks tutorial for beginners