[Carlos Sarda]

Or did you mean a scientific award?

Yes, that’s exactly what I meant, the NLE itself won an Oscar and and Emmy.

[Carlos Sarda]

Yes, but Thelma’s the only major editor using Lightworks that I know of.

.- Tariq Anwar (King’s Speech) is a very high profile editor.
Many high profile movies has been edited on Lightworks (Braveheart, Pulp fiction, Batman, Mission impossible and many more I don’t remember, besides all of Scorsese’s films, of course.

Hey, We are talking about a Oscar and Emmy winner NLE, (Something FCP never achieved)

One question: does the original Lightworks software resemble the new Open Source one?

.- Original Lightworks software?? Ther is no such thing.

The original LWs software ran on DOS and in NT and it was loooong ago replaced/upgraded by newer models like Heavyworks, Alacrity, Softworks, Touch and others.

LWs never stopped being developed.

[Carlos Sarda]

Ancient?

Actually Lightworks was never discontinued, bankrupt or dead, and the R&D was just slowed down briefly dueto financial problems of the previous owner (Gee Broadcast)
The company was purchased/sold several times, new products were developed(Alacrity, Softworks, etc)had some financial problems before it was bought out by Editshare.

FCP7 is dead.