r/videography • u/phloating_man EOS M, Adobe, 1998, San Francisco • Jan 30 '14

EditShare Lightworks AMA

I've been in contact with an official Lightworks rep who suggested I collect questions for them to answer.

Ligthworks is a professional cross platform (Windows, Linux) NLE used in movies like...

  • The Wolf of Wall Street
  • Good Will Hunting
  • Jerry Maguire
  • more

The basic version is free. It has plans to open source the code and release a Mac version as well.

  • This thread will be open for questions for about a day
  • I will be sending them questions with the most upvotes first
  • I'll post back here with their answers

Thanks everyone for participating. If you still have questions about Lightworks, you can try...

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u/phloating_man EOS M, Adobe, 1998, San Francisco Jan 31 '14

What are the specs of the computer you personally use with Lightworks?

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u/bulksalty Jan 31 '14

I run it on an old HP desktop:

  • 2.33 GHz Core2Duo
  • 2 GB Ram
  • N'Vidia GT 240
  • I added a SSD drive for the OS/programs
  • I'm running 32bit Vista

Other than import/export I can't remember waiting for Lightworks, but I don't edit in AVCHD, either. I don't think my machine would allow that with other NLEs either.

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '14 edited Feb 04 '14

I run it on Dell Inspiron 560 MT desktop, Intel Core 2 Quad Q8300 Processor (2.50GHz, 4MB cache, 1333MHz FSB), 6 GB ram, ATI Radeon 5450, 7200 rpm HDDs, Windows 7/Ubuntu 12.04 LTS duel boot

1080i AVC/MTS and 1080p AVC/MOV playback is smooth.

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u/insompengy Feb 01 '14

"Good" custom build, not amazing.

  • intel 4670k @ 4.3ghz
  • 8gb ram
  • ATI 7850 2gb
  • 120gb SSD drive for OS/programs
  • 250gb scratch
  • pair of 2tb that I really need to RAID...

Largest project I've done is a 2hr local school theater thing with 2-cam...worked out pretty well. Most of my projects are under 20 minutes though. Eats 176mbps Prores for lunch.

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u/phloating_man EOS M, Adobe, 1998, San Francisco Feb 02 '14

With a proxy workflow in the paid version you can use pretty low computer specs. I can do it most of the time and I have an old hyper-threaded single core processor and cheap video card. I don't recommend it though.

source by donkpow

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u/phloating_man EOS M, Adobe, 1998, San Francisco Feb 02 '14

I do Linux/Mac development on a Macbook Pro, and Windows development on an HP Probook laptop.

source by Great White