
Export to Vimeo (H.264/MPEG-4) up to 720p.Ability to import a range of file types.The free version comes with a limited number of features: In July 2020, a Lightworks product manager confirmed that they "Still hope to announce something in the future" about Lightworks' open source development. However, no source code of the program has been released. The development of an open-source version was announced on April 11, 2010.

Lightworks won a 2017 EMMY Award for being one of the first to create digital nonlinear editing software. It was an early developer of computer-based non-linear editing systems, and has been in development since 1989.

Lightworks is a freemium non-linear editing system (NLE) for editing and mastering digital video.
