Lightworks is an open source Video editing software application which can be installed on Linux, Windows and macOS operating systems. This is an alternative to commercial video editor applications such as Adobe Premiere Pro and Final Cut Pro X. In this guide we will explain how to download and install Lightworks Video Editor on Fedora Linux operating systems.
Lightworks has wide native format support available in any professional NLE. MXF, Quicktime and AVI containers, with almost every format you can think of importing natively without the need for transcoding, from ProRes, Avid DNxHD, AVC-Intra, DVCPRO HD, RED R3D, DPX, AVCHD (with AC3 audio), H.264, XDCAM EX / HD 422, all on the same timeline in real-time.
Install Lightworks Video Editor on Fedora
The new release of Lightworks as of this article update is 2022.1. This version contains large number of new features and improvements. For example the project frame-rate limitation has been completely removed, allowing media with any frame-rate (including variable rate) to be imported into a project, played back, logged, and added into sequences seamlessly.
This new release also added Support for macOS 11 (Big Sur). We will do a separate guide on the installation of Lightworks Video Editor on macOS Big Sur.
1) Download Lightworks RPM Package
Lightworks packages for various Linux operating systems are available in the releases page from the official Lightworks website.
On Red Hat based systems such as Fedora you’ll download .RPM package. This can be done from the command line with wget/curl of manually from the downloads page.
sudo yum -y install wget
wget https://cdn.lwks.com/releases/latest/lightworks_linux_rpm.rpmConfirm that the release you’ve downloading is the latest.
2) Install Lightworks Video Editor
Once the package has been downloaded to the local system, we can install with yum command.
But we’ll first add RPM Fusion repository:
sudo dnf install -y https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm
sudo dnf install -y https://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpmInstall libCg which provides libCg.so()(64bit) needed by lightworks:
sudo dnf -y install libCgInstall the package:
sudo dnf install ./lightworks_linux_rpm.rpmAccept installation prompts:
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Transaction Summary
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Install 5 Packages
Total size: 82 M
Total download size: 624 k
Installed size: 348 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y3) Launch and use Lightworks Video Editor
Launch and start using Lightworks Video Editor on Fedora after installation.
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