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Reverb is the effect a sound makes when produced in a given space. Clap your hands and listen to the sound of the room as that clap reverberates off the walls and ceiling. Clap your hands in a different space, say a church, and you get a very different kind of reverb — longer, louder, brighter. The nature of any reverb is determined by many things, including how far away the wall and ceiling surfaces are, what they’re made of, whether there’s carpet and more. More recently, a new form of reverb is taking hold: convolution reverb.

There’s a wealth of excellent creative software for Windows available as open source or freeware: from audio editors and music tools, to graphics software and 3D animation. However, there’s been nothing worthwhile in the area of video editing. This has now changed with the release of Lightworks (at http://www.lightworksbeta.com). Although this is the first release of Lightworks Open Source (and this is still a beta), the application itself has been around since 1989. It was a pioneer of digital non-linear editing (NLE) along with Avid and was truly innovative at the time.