It may be,, that Ron has done an about-turn and resorted to writing Wine layers. What's next - Lightworks for Android? -only a few lines of code away.įor newcomers, Lightworks for the desktop is relatively new, the NLE having its origins in feature film production.Ĭurrent Lead Developer Ron Fearnside developed quite a few of the technologies we take for granted working at Quantel, an UK company with a pedigree worth acquainting ourselves with. Once again, risk-averse developers are showing us how OSes, once the mainstay of IT revenue, are losing relevance. Linux of course doesn't have Direct3D, so we had to reimplement all the Linux GPU specific code using OpenGL. The bulk of the work in porting to Linux was actually in re-engineering the existing code, not in writing the Linux-specific layer. The OS independent code accounts for about 97% of the total codebase. editing, play-engine, etc) which uses the OS-dependent code (eg. In essence, the Lightworks code is now split in two - the OS-independent code (eg. Once this was complete, we were then able to begin work on a Linux implementation of that same layer. Instead, we decided to move it to a new operating-system dependent layer which we engineered to have an OS independent interface. Our solution was to avoid rewriting the Windows-specific code at all (it was, after all, tried, tested and optimized).

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