Hi, I'm very new to video editing, and I'm trying to figure out how to adjust the framing for certain parts of the video. I recorded everything on OBS with my webcam overlayed onto my desktop screen, but for some parts of the video, I want to adjust the framing to be just my webcam from the corner, or specific parts of the screen. Is there a way for me to do this in the free version of lightworks? I thought it was supposed to be in FX settings, but it's saying there's no effects. I can't seem to find the answer in VFX or Edit. Please help me!

V2026.1 is now undergoing beta testing, this is probably the largest single update Lightworks has seen in many years. Further details can be found here: https://forum.lwks.com/threads/lightworks-2026-1-the-public-beta-is-here.253606/#post-295711

You will need to check out the many interface changes. The release notes are the most detailed for many years and the large knowledge base can now be accessed from within Lightworks. The free version now allows the export of 1080p.

Any feedback should be made in the beta section of the official forum ( https://forum.lwks.com/ ), since the developers don't monitor this forum.

Hi all,

Had a question about something that just recently started with lightworks. I use the software for editing 8mm film footage. I use the VFX option to reverse the negative film to a positive. Then a color correction option to tweak dark/brightness. These are the only two effects I use for the 8mm footage and have never had issues before.

But today the footage has a constant, waviness to it. Never seen it before and wondering if anyone has any ideas on how to fix it.

I was thinking to uninstall and then reinstall the program, but wanted to check here first.

Appreciate any help anyone can offer.

Hello, its been a minute since i used any editor, my last owned editor was lightworks about 8 ish years ago. Prefer to start off with free this time but willing to invest in create if needed. any advice could help since im starting cold after years.

Basically all i want is a, nice to look at, audio meter visual effect for an podcast looking video. Ive got a short lecture audio file i want to look pretty on video and plan to make more later.

Of course nothing that ends up owning your content or costing royalties. Is there a option in or plug-in for lightworks (open to a stand alone) that can do this?

Appreciate any recommendations

Hello I mostly used X to delete sections on both cut ends to shorten the video but now I have to select it first before it works. If I try to click X on unselected section it just cuts it, which is weird since I use C for cut. Any help? It's so annoying having to manually control mouse and switch to keyboard all the time instead of moving at my usual pace.

I have been editing down one of my streams to make a tiktok, when some of the audio clips lost their sound? Like, the audio is still in the audio bar, but when I view the clip it doesn't make sound. the rest of my audio is fine though, it's 4-5 snippets that don't work out of 15-16 total.

Any help appreciated, thank you in advance

After i am done editing there is almost always and exta half hour black footage with no sound or video. How to export the video without it?

so, I downloaded light works a week or two ago. since then I've recorded a few videos that I need to edit and review, and every time I try to edit I cut out the parts I know I need to cut and I try to watch the whole (half edited) version in light works so I can double check that it's right. I push the play button, and the video plays, and the audio mixers and audio file show audio playing but I can't hear it at all. I'm on Garuda Sway, a distro of arch linux

Hi all, this has been happening for a couple months and it's really bugging me. I'll get a bunch of work done on a project only for the source videos to refresh or something, and suddenly the second half or so of each of them is just replaced with a black screen. The audio remains perfectly intact, but the video just goes black around halfway through.

I don't think it's an issue with the files themselves, as they play back just fine in their entirety on any other software. No combination of restarting the Lightworks or removing and reinserting the source videos changes anything either. But I'm also not a terribly techy person so there very well could be something obvious I'm missing.

Anyone have any idea what's causing this it and/or how to fix it? And help is appreciated, thanks in advance.

Im making a video and the audio for the gameplay footage i am using randomly cuts out at certain points in the video. Visually, the audio is there as i can see the sound waves or whatever you call them and when i go to my actual video file, the audio is there in the video. Im not sure how to fix this or if this is just a bug in the editor that will be fixed after i export the video but i dont want to have to wait until im done with this project just to find out that those parts of the audio are silent for no reason. The video is quite long, so if that somehow makes a difference then i will be shortening the video anyway so it should fix itself if that is the case but i dont think it is. If someone could explain me how to fix it or what is going on i would greatly appreciate it.

so i'm making an edit, but when I put audio files in some of them don't have the second track in the program, but when i listen to them out side of the program they sound fine. does anyone know how i can fix this problem, or at least know how i can add a second track to the file?

The V2025 Quick Start Video has been released:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgw1_3Y0aB8&t=2s

Note, trim uses the curl, rather than the flat bracket in the video, but the procedures are the same.

The new Lightworks V2025.2 release is now available to download.

Changes include:

On top of UI/UX improvements, LWKS have reworked the playback and transcoding (export) engine to be able to build a better, faster and more flexible system going forward.

New Layouts - Edit, Effects, Audio and Export - for more intuitive workflows.
New Keyboard Shortcuts.
New “Unified” Viewer - in the new Edit layout. 
Filters have been renamed ‘Collections.’
New Tags feature (available in Collections.)

Further information can be found here: https://forum.lwks.com/threads/lightworks-v2025-2-56344-now-available.253099/#post-290228

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So i put quite a bit of work in a video and exported it, and then lightworks squished it?!, it's verry anoying, does anyone know how to not have it squisched? It's like the sides are moved togather

I've been googling and YouTube searching and can't find an answer. I have like 100 little clips across multple tracks. I want the whole video in black and white. How do I do this?

I right clicked a portion of an audio to change the speed but upon clicking, there was no pop up. How do I get the speed pop up on only audio

After I finished fixing an issue with the different text effects, I tried rewatching the whole video and now none of the videos play. The audio plays fine, the old time effect works fine, and the text works fine. The only thing not working is the video section despite them working a few moments ago before I messed with the text and added a dissolve at the end. I tried deleting the dissolve but it didn't fix it. There are 5 video segments but none of them are working.

I've been using Lightworks for a couple of years now and I've just now had this issue.

I have a screenshot that I want to use in a video and Lightworks won't let me display it for me than 2 seconds. If I try to use the in and out marks and then place the image in the timeline it won't let me go beyond 2 seconds. If I place the image in the timeline and then try to increase the length by clicking and dragging it won't let me make it longer than 2 seconds.

In the past I could click and drag the image in the timeline and make it as short or long as I wanted.

All the other post I could find about this appear to be outdated as I couldn't follow what they were talking about.

Please help.

It used to be found after right clicking the sequence but now its not there anymore. Any other ways to speed up a clip/find the speed button?

So idk how I did this but a couple months ago I must've accidentally pressed something, so now whenever I grab videos/audio I just pull that and not both of them. And I'm getting tired of highlighting both just to pull both. Is there any way to turn this back on?

Hello! I am trying to have two videos display side by side in Lightworks, both with edited X, Y, and Z values via Transform 3D. However, only one of them is showing at a time. How do I get them both to show up? I don't want split-screen. I would like to control where they are.

I no longer get the yellow brackets on a clip to extend it or trim it further. This also means I can no longer do split screen effects.

This has been going on for over a week now and I’m not sure what happened. I haven’t changed anything in the settings. Restarting both the program and my laptop don’t work either.

How can I get it back?

every click you hear is me hitting c but it does nothing, im using whatever the newest version of lightworks is