It might be worth investigating Lightworks. It's a professional grade NLE[0], with a "free" version, with limits on output format. Five or six years ago, EditS

It might be worth investigating Lightworks. It's a professional grade NLE[0], with a "free" version, with limits on output format. Five or six years ago, EditStore purchased the Lightworks product, with promises of open sourcing the code[1], but that doesn't seem to have happened. However, there's a pretty stable Linux version available to download[2]. [0] http://www.lwks.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=103&Itemid=214 http://www.lwks.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=articl... [1] http://www.lwks.com/index.php?option=com_kunena&func=view&catid=19&id=1251&Itemid=81 http://www.lwks.com/index.php?option=com_kunena&func=view&ca... [2] http://www.lwks.com/index.php?option=com_lwks&view=download&Itemid=206&tab=1 http://www.lwks.com/index.php?option=com_lwks&view=download&...