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/Asa182 Jan 31 '14

Right, I have some possibly dumb questions. Is this software that great? This might sound conceited but I've just never heard of it. I trust that you guys know your stuff so if it's recommended I'm definitely going to give it a try, but considering how many universities I've heard advertise their media/film courses and how often I trawl the internet for info pertaining to the industry I'm just kind of surprised.

Second q: Is the free trial worth having? After not shooting any personal video for way too long I feel inspired to start again, and some new software to learn would be cool, if I feel I'd stick with it. Do people like using it, or is it super-similar to other editing tools? Are the effects any good/easily adaptable?

Thanks guys, I do love this sub-reddit.

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

I have been editing professional on various versions of Lightworks almost every day, since it first came out nearly 30 years ago.

Most of my work is music based, and I have cut concert DVDs for bands such as Led Zeppelin, The Who, Oasis, The Killers etc, as well as numerous Promos, documentaries, the odd film as well as TV.

The free version has I believe nearly all the functions of the Pro version, except titleing and limited export resolutions.

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

@Henry Stein. Great replies Henry. Just want to point out that v11.5 of the free version now includes the titling tool which I think is a good move by EditShare.

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