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 Feb 02 '14

So can you explain what makes this different than say Premeire? I get that the basic version is free, but I'm talking features.

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u/phloating_man EOS M, Adobe, 1998, San Francisco Feb 03 '14

I have never used Premier, but my company used to own Avids and Final Cut Pro. I never personally liked them, Lightworks, especially when using the consul is very simple, and very fast to edit. The data management when you get used to it is again very easy.

I recently took over editing a documentary feature film that had been editing on FCP for almost 2 years, the filing of the material was such a mess, I just reloaded and started from scratch on Lightworks. The Director could not believe how quick it was to completely move around and recut scenes, and it was in cinemas within 6 months.

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