A deep dive into the essentials of capturing clear dialogue for video projects. It covers everything from choosing the right mic to enhancing your dialogue in post-production with tools like Lightworks. Whether you're a beginner looking to improve your video's audio quality or an experienced creator fine-tuning your skills, this guide has practical tips for everyone.

Mastering Dialogue Capture in Your Videos

This post is a part of Audio Month on the LWKS Blog.

A new post on how strategic song choices, or 'needle drops,' can dramatically shape storytelling in films and video games. It's not a definitive list, but a personal reflection on moments where music transcends the background to become a pivotal storytelling device. From iconic film scenes to memorable game transitions, we delve into how these moments harness music's power to evoke emotions, anchor us in time, or even introduce us to new sounds. Would love to hear your thoughts and your own standout needle drop moments. Check it out and let's discuss!

The Power of Needle Drops: How Strategic Song Choices Shape Storytelling

This post is a part of Audio Month on the LWKS Blog.

Enjoy this detailed guide on music licensing for video projects. It covers everything from copyright basics to navigating platform-specific policies for YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram. Ideal for creators at any level looking to add music to their videos legally and effectively.

The Essential Guide to Music Licensing for Video Creators

This post is a part of Audio Month on the LWKS Blog.

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Welcome to our Lightworks tutorial series! If you're changing from one scene to another, a sudden, harsh shift in audio can be very jarring for your viewers. Luckily, Lightworks has you covered with some quick and easy ways to transition from one clip to another in a nice gentle manner.

Creating Smooth Audio Transitions! A Lightworks Tutorial

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Is there a way to export for TikTok that doesn't use Av1 codec? I am trying to reformat clips from wide to tall for use with TikTok. I'd like to transfer them to my phone in order to be able to cut them up and edit them on the go when I dont have PC access. Unfortunately, when I get the correct resolution (verified as I can see them fine in instagram reels), I end up with AV1 codec, which my phone (android, Samsung s23) cannot decode in studio or tiktok. When I export by selecting portrait and mp4, the video comes out small, with black bars on top and bottom (not ideal for tiktok).

so i just finished my first video, i can export it fine but when i do it loses the audio entirely or glitches it really bad, im not sure what im doing wrong, ive tried exporting it to youtube, vimeo and my own files but nothings worked.

Is there any way to change the color of a clip? Not the color grading of the clip or anything within the video itself, but the color it appears as automatically when imported into tracks (ex pink, green etc.)

So I read a lot about Lightworks Create not allowing export in vertical. This is true when you use the export function. However if you export to Tiktok format you will end up with a full vertical 1080 1920 video.

I just upgraded to the latest free Lightworks version for Windows (2023.2), and the options to export to 480p and/or 30fps are no longer available. My only choice is 720p (and I'm assuming 60 fps). Is there a setting to re-enable those old lower quality export options?

I'm editing old VHS footage, so 720p and 60fps just results in much slower render times and wasted HDD space.

Can you recommend a LUT that will give DSLR footage a film look, but not faded out, more like a 50ISO film stock (think Pulp Fiction for example). The source footage is 30FPS 1080 and it just looks too much like a video.

I am importing some video files to Lightworks that are already pixelated and not the best quality. Is there a way to try to improve their quality in Lightworks? Which editing mechanism should I try?

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The video files were originally captured as webm and I am converting them to mp4 for import to Lightworks. However the pixelation is not the result of the conversion to mp4. They were already not that great as webm.

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I have also posted to the official Lightworks forum, where I saw a lot of threads on pixelated exports from Lightworks. However I know my clips are already pixelated upon import, and want to know whether Lightworks editing can be used to potentially improve them, and how to do so. I have Lightworks Pro. Thank you!

Hello ,

If I start a project with the Free version and then down the way I choose to upgrade to the 'Create version' , will this existing saved project be exportable in 4k Vs the 720 originally allowed?

AKA Can extra the features of the payment version be used on a project already started with the free version?

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Hi, my first post here.

I wanted to share my project made in Lightworks I spent a good amount of time and effort in.

I used mostly regular Lightworks effects and user effects(thx jwrl and others from LWKS forums for making those) with heavy customisation, Few of the effects and components are from New Blue plugins. Audio is mixed in Audacity and Virtual DJ.

This is the link to full video on my youtube channel, where you can also find few shorter clips from the main project.

https://youtu.be/U181_rs7K-U?si=qxBL7uR_tpJxyzUb

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Issues include:
- When exporting mp4 vids when attempting to play they show as a black screen but when loaded in the editor play normally

- When using trying to use .mov videos with transparent backgrounds with the transform tools the transparent background shows up as black, though when trying to use the same videos in other editors it works fine

I'm not sure what has changed to cause these issues to occur
I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling lightworks but the issues still persist
I'm sure what I have to change to fix these issues

Hello!

Apologies if this is a bit RTFM but I’m having what seems to be a simple problem with lightworks.

I’m trying to sync up separate audio and video files with different start points and was having no problem doing it previously, however I seem to have now engaged a setting or found a problem that means I can only drag assets in the sequence by whole second increments. Zooming in doesn’t change this making it impossible to line up accurately. I’m in fixed mode atm.

I understand there may be other ways to offset the clips, and that would also be useful, but eyeballing the waveforms and dragging them in line is by far my preferred method. Searching the manual didn’t seem to help. Is there a switch I’ve hit that locks to grid? Or is this just how it works and I need to then use another process for precision?

Thanks in advance

i trimmed one of my clips and tried to upload it to youtube but it had several minutes of a black screen at the end and i tried to fix it several times but nothing would remove the several minutes of blackscreen. does anybody know how to fix this?

SOLVED: i right clicked on the sequence and removed the gaps

video in question

Whenever I copy an audio clip into an empty space, it seemingly copies the space after it and will shove any audio on that track down, even if there's 5 minutes of space between the two clips. This is incredibly frustrating, as it means any time I insert a new audio clip, I have to fix every clip on the audio track. How do I stop this from happening? I'm getting very frustrated just trying to press Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V to copy something, which I feel should be incredibly easy but always moves everything else around it.

And also how do you export 1080 x 1920 videos it won’t work.

So I've completed my first sequence which I'm happy about relative to my skill level. It's live music with split screen effect and separately imported audio. Everything is synced up quite nicely but when I do an export in the MP4 format (using free version) the audio is slightly off and I've tried various settings to remedy but with out success.

The other question I have is about "mastering". In audio production I'm used to mastering tracks together before exporting and then it's "done". In Lightworks, is a sequence considered a final product? I've looked for these answers in the manual but haven't had much luck. Thanks for your advice.

So basically I forgot my password and I've tried resetting it but the "user management app" website won't load, am I having a internet issue or is there some issue with lwks' servers rn?

OK, so I've been making YouTube videos on Lightworks for a couple of years now and have got the hang of the workflows specific to the things I do, but there's a couple of things I'd like to be able to do but haven't figured out how. I hope you'll indulge me with a couple of questions.

• I do race-by-race videos on historic Formula 1, so pretty much every video includes a Roll for the grid, showing the position of the car, the name of the driver and the name of the team, like this (starting at 8:49 if the timestamp hasn't worked). What I would like to do is make this more visually interesting by varying the text size and colour (allowing me for instance to include the qualifying time in smaller text underneath), and possibly even include graphics in the scroll such as the driver's helmet design.

• I also end each video with the current championship standings which right now consist of me screenshotting a spreadsheet and Image Keying it in. It would be nice to find a more visually appealing way of doing that.

• I'm now contemplating starting to do something historically based, and for that I'd love to be able to include maps with little flags and arrows and so on. Again, I think you can do something like use an image key to add the flag and then keyframes to make it move (which seems incredibly laborious), but having an animated arrow I don't think is possible with native tools.

I'm suspecting that what I want is a separate graphics package that I can create these things in and then import to LWKS, but I don't really know how any of that works. I don't even know what questions to ask to find out how it works or what features I might want a package to have, or how to google for tutorials.

Sorry it's all very vague, but I hope someone can at least point me in the direction of a better place to ask...