Customers discovered a way to snatch 1080p uploads into files that could then be uploaded to YouTube.
The free Lightworks 12.6 version supported 1080p uploads to Vimeo and 720p uploads to YouTube.
Effects include a three-channel color corrector, keying, a 2D/3D DVE, a set of video filters, wipes and dissolves, audio EQ, plus EDL and Film Cut List export. My focus on trimming should not mislead anyone into thinking Lightworks doesn’t have the capabilities typically available in a modern NLE-for example multicam editing and a tilter. When one of these five trimming functions is initiated, Lightworks displays a yellow bracket at the edit point and opens a two-window Trim viewer. Press “” for a Slip-trim and press “s“ for a Slide-trim. (Easily done with a controller’s Jog and Shuttle dials.) To initiate a ripple-trim (earlier/later) of a clip’s head, press “.”To initiate a Rolling trim, use “” to jump to a cut-point and press “\.”įor a Slip or Slide-trim, use “” to jump to an edit-point or drive the cursor anywhere over a clip. Use “” to jump to an edit-point or move the cursor anywhere over a clip. Both ripple Remove (delete) and non-ripple Remove (/) are supported. (Three-point editing is supported.) Clips in the timeline can be split to create a new edit point (n).Ĭlips can be eliminated from a timeline in two ways: use “” to jump to a cut-point or move the cursor anywhere over a clip. Clips can be sent into a timeline using a ripple Insert (v), a non-ripple Replace (x), or a backtimed replace (b). There is no need to mark the out-point-although Mark-out (o) is available.Įditing is performed by six commands. Now play the clip to where the action ends. Backup to the correct frame and press Mark-in (i). Lightworks supports “mark and park.” Play a clip in the Source viewer to where action starts. Perhaps I was channeling the original designers of the Lightworks system because I had seen Lightworks earlier at NAB 1993.įilm traditionally was edited on a flatbed (Figure 1) or Moviola (Figure 14), both of which inherently work in the time domain. These include: lasso one or more cut-points, enter one of several modes, select one of several edit tools, place the cursor in the lower or upper area of a track, and drag the Source viewer image to one of many icons on the Record viewer.
This sentence appears in my 1994 review of Premiere 3.0: “It's time a nonlinear editing program was developed that enables editors to work rapidly and directly in the time domain.”Įach time I review an NLE I silently rant about the methods software engineers devise for editing film and video. It also re-frames Lightworks’ editing conventions to match the new Lightworks.ĭownload the Lightworks V14 Addendum at: Download the DVCkeyboard.prefs file at: Prepare to Enter the Time Domain This motivated my creation of a mnemonic (easy-to-learn and easy-to-remember) set of keyboard shortcuts. For example, to Add Tracks you press delete. If you prefer using the keyboard rather than clicking on-screen buttons, you’ll find the Lightworks’ default keyboard shortcuts a bit strange. As shown by Figure 13, the low data-rate (1.18Mbps), h.264 proxy images are too small to be clear in a Viewer and become blurry when upscaled for full-screen viewing. Unfortunately, all formats are downscaled by Lightworks to 426x240-pixel video.
After conversion, Lightworks can edit the ProRes 422 compatible files.Īfter importing media, the Pro version supports 720p, 1080, and 2160p proxy editing. On a PC, the Jihosoft Media Converter ( will transcode SD, 1080p, and 2160p h.264-based media to any flavor of ProRes 422. To edit 2160p media, batch transcode it using the Jihosoft Media Converter application ( Now you can import the ProRes compatible files into Lightworks. On a Mac, Lightworks will transcode SD and 1080p h.264-based media to any flavor of ProRes 422. Transcoding these files during import would significantly increase editing performance. Although the non-Pro and Pro versions can import and edit h.264-based 2160p media (AF-AVC and XAVC), editing performance is only marginally acceptable. RED R3D, ProRes 422, AVCHD, XAVC-I, AVC-Intra, MPEG-2, XDCAM, DVCAM, DVCPRO, DPX, and CinemaDNG are on the import codec list. Double-clicking a clip brings it into the Source viewer. Lightworks 14 provides edit capabilities in the LOG window: clips can be played clips can be marked and clips can be sent directly to a timeline.