No, if anything, it shows how "industrial-strength" software sucks.

Lightworks is a joke. I installed it today, and it wouldn't even load. I had to check their forum, and find a tip that it said that we should load its alternative .exe first -- the one that's not shortcuted at all.

Anyways, after it loaded, there was crash overload. Crash for this, crash for that. Had a crash even for loading a .jpg. Again, their forum is full of such complaints too.

Add to the injury the fact that it won't support any modern file format (even for HDV's .m2t needed to be renamed to .mpg, and .m2ts and h.264 MOV/MP4 was a disaster). MJPEG MOV/AVI wouldn't load either. For the ones that it managed to not crash upon importing, it required lengthy re-encodings in an intermediate format. For MJPEG it failed to even create an intermediate copy (it would bail out at 50% of the process, tried with 2-3 different MJPEGs from different cameras to make sure).

Not to mention that its UI is abysmal, full of things (like racks) that are simply not useful to consumers. Even if they fix their stability and compatibility problems, the UI will be a stabling block.

Sony, or Adobe, have nothing to fear from this software. It's not stable, and it feels to me that it was open sourced because it was a mess to deal with inside their company.

And the argument that "this is beta", doesn't hold, for two reasons: 1. this is not even beta, it feels more like an alpha, 2. this is version 10 of their software. Some maturity should have been reached after all this time. M2T should have been supported for example, since they already support mpeg2, and given how popular HDV is, even for their original industry.