
I also designed and built the majority of the graphics as Motion templates. Though I haven't yet tried to herd a flock of sheep through the city centre! Current EditingĢ020 has been busy, the beginning of the year was finishing off a new property series (cut on FCP) for Channel 4 called The Great House Giveaway. I was made a Freeman of Lichfield through The Worshipful Company of Smiths (established 1601). Under the name Idustrial Revolution, I have written and sold plugins for Final Cut Pro for 13 years. I have also worked as a broadcast and corporate editor for over 30 years, starting on one inch tape, working through many formats, right up to today's NLEs. I am the Editor-in-Chief of FCP.co and have run the website since its inception ten years ago. In this Lightworks 11 video tutorial, you'll learn to how to choose project settings and setup your project including how to change the output format. Whatever you think of Lightworks, you can't knock its film editing pedigree and we think that it will continue to grow in that niche. Peter Bridgman has authored 10 Lightworks tutorials that start with creating a project and run through the editing process right up to exporting your project. As with any software roadmap, the schedule has slipped so no dates on the releases. The Lightworks Pro version can be licenced for $60 a year with a 50% discount for education users.Īlthougth Lightworks 11 is only available for Windows at the moment, Editshare have published a roadmap that indicates versions will become available for Mac OSX and Linux. There are two versions of Lightworks available, the free version has less features and reduced support for different codecs.

Lightworks is now owned by EditShare who have published a new version of the NLE after an 18th month beta program. The life of Lightworks has had its ups and downs, being bought by multiple companies including Tektronix who made a four channel version built on a Profile video server. They started off as offline tools which meant fuzzy looking pictures and a trip to a tape suite to online the pictures. After looking at Avid's precarious situation, it was good to find Editshare have published 10 new video tutorials for Lightworks 11.Īvid and Lightworks dominated the NLE world in the nineties with highly priced systems that needed a mortgage to finance.

Rather ironic that there are two stories here on FCP.co that feature the two big NLE's that ruled editing before Final Cut Pro was released.
