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I know the video editing software LightWorks has its aficionados. I can see how it's powerful. I've been using it since at least version 12. But my gosh how it screws people over. In the latest version, when you import files into a project and then want to delete _just the reference_ to the files in the project, LightWorks says "Nope, imma delete the FILE, too!" So you can never just start over with an import. When you import a bunch of still photos in one shot, no matter how many, it imports them all as an unwatchably fast 1 second video sequence instead of as an individual file. Like...what? And they've dumbed down the interface so much that there's no toolbar. You have to right-click poke at everything to try to find where stuff is. And right clicking is NON-EXISTENT on a Mac. I had to use a pen tablet to achieve it. I'm too cheap to buy Adobe Premiere for the few times I have to edit video in a year, so I guess it's just ShotCut on Windows for the rest of my life.

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    Oh boy, Lightworks.

    Try DaVinci Resolve, the free version can handle fullHD and it's a one time payment thing if you're after the pro version thing (also way cheaper than Premiere).

    I like the interface and structure a lot more than Premiere, the colour tools are fabulous, the tabbed UI is awesome and clean and it even performs better if you have a good GPU.

    It also has a native Linux (and Mac) version if you care about that :p (which works very well, it's not a shoddy port)
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    I agree with the comment above. DaVinci is a great option if you have issues with other editors
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