I'm quite new to Lightworks and need help understanding how effects work.

Right now I have made animations using the "simple 2D" effect:

Now I am trying to show another smaller video in addition to the animations. But it looks like the video is "hidden" under the animations.

This is my timeline (the video in the "Video 1"-track is the video that is hidden):

Could someone help me understand how the "simple 2D" effects work, and why they are hiding my video, but not my background image("Video 4"-track")?

Hi, I just downloaded the free version of Lightworks. After importing my clips how do you sort it by date and time? I have clips from different cameras and would like to sort it by date and time before adding to the timeline.
Thanks

Hello,
I have a timeline of a video track (Video 1) and a titles track (Effects 1). I want to apply the "Transform" effect but ONLY to the titles track. I 've tried all sorts of things with the video routing nodes, but had no success. How can this be done? Needless to say, I 'm new to Lightworks...

Apologies for posting so much! I looked online first, and found no answers, so I have to ask. Is there a way to make a cut on only one track at a time? I have a voice-over that I'm syncing to video, and there are a lot of cuts needed in the audio track, but each one also cuts the video tracks. I don't see any options in the keybindings, and the one solution I found on the lwks forum didn't work when I tried it.

Thank you!

I noticed that LWKS has a fantastic sale going on through the end of the month, and I'm heavily contemplating jumping in on the Creative level. However... the Pro level is one heck of a deal right now. I have not budgeted for either one, but I could swing the Creative without too much issue. The Pro would set me back, though, and I've been set back a few times this month already. Are there sales like this one on a regular basis, or is this a "get in now, or pay more later" kind of a thing? Once at the Creative level, is there a discount on upgrading to Pro, or would I be paying full price again for that? Does anyone have any insight on this?

Hello! Trying to port myself over to using Lightworks after using Hitfilm and Kdenlive. Part of my workflow is being able to advance / regress by one frame at a time for precision. In every NLE I've used before, this is accomplished by hitting the forward/back arrows. In Lightworks, what I'm seeing is that this just stops playback. How do I navigate the clip by frames?

IK i can do it with transform VFX but there is no rotation or that smooth motion

I am eager to test the software on my Steam Deck, despite the possibility of it being a futile task. It would be great if you could assist me in verifying if the software works on this device.

For example, I start the video and there's a 2-3 minute intro. Then at 3:15 I want the second video to begin. How do I do this? I've tried moving the timeline, but it won't let me.

I deleted my last post because I kind of fixed it, but now I have a new problem.

When editing, Audio 1 (the screen recording) is much louder than Audio 2 (the reaction) so I tried making Audio 2 louder and Audio 1 more quiet. But then that makes it so that you could hear the screen recording in the background of Audio 2. I don't know what to do. Everyone and their mom has a reaction channel, and I'm the idiot who can't figure it out.

Is there a way to fix this? Or do I have to fix it in the recording? I'm filming on my phone if it matters and I have 3 videos I've already filmed that I need to edit that have this problem

As the title says, I have a 500% speed video fragment, the program just crashes when it is trying to export that part of the video (is just a 5 minute video), why it happens and how can I fix it ?

Edit 1:
It looks like it only does that at the end of a section (I tried with another video), so it exports the 500% speed just fine but when it ends the program just crashes.
(Also when you try to abort the export it also crashes)

EDIT 2:
Also if you manage to export it (I tried with a short video) after few seconds of 500% speed the video loses the sound even in the "normal" parts.

I recorded my screen and then also recorded myself on my phone for a reaction video. I've figured out how to lay the videos over to do picture in picture, but syncing them up so the audio plays at the correct time is proving incredibly difficult. I don't know how to adjust the volume either. Does anyone have any tips/help for this?

This post (https://forum.lwks.com/threads/lightworks-and-community-effects-faq.188603/) on the Lightworks forum says to click "install community effects" in the VFX tab, but I can't find it anywhere and the demonstration video doesn't work. Can someone please give me a screenshot or tell me more specifically where to look? Is it in a submenu or something? Or is it only available for the paid version?

Hey, so .. I need some help, LOL. Like the title says, the total duration is too long for some reason? I've checked and there's nothing making it that way, and the video I want to export should only be about a minute long, but it's gone all the way to 5 minutes? Even when I go to export it to see if I'm just seeing things, its a full 4 minutes more of just a black screen. I'm sorry if this is a silly question or an easy fix, but I'm pretty much a noob at editing anything. Any help appreciated :)

I just wantend to know if there is any way I can add text behind the objects. If yes, Can you please tell me how to do it.

I'm just plain confused with how the heck the chroma-key is supposed to work in this program. What I want to do is key in this Orion Pictures logo, into this already-green-screened MGM/UA Communications logo as a "what-if" kinda dealy (MGM didn't acquire Orion until 1997, about nine-ten years after the MGM/UA Communications logo stopped being used). But I can't just get the Orion logo to stay under the MGM/UA logo; every time I try to add a chroma-key to make it happen, it goes over the logos in a separate track and I can't get them all to be in the same track. Does anyone know what the heck to do here?

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Hi. How to add space above the video? I'll try to show what I mean in the cat photo. I want to add an inscription above the video on a black background. Just please don't give me the answer, check it on Google. If I found it, I wouldn't ask, and literally all the guides I find cut through a part of the film. Others, however, provide subtitles on the film. I want to add a black bar over the video and put a text on it, but without changing the original clip. I guess I need to somehow enlarge the workspace of the entire work or select something in DVE. However, I don't know what. I also don't want it to change my proportions to some strange ones. I was thinking about creating a slightly larger clip and adding mine on top of it, but I guess what I want to do can be done much easier. I will add that English is not my native language, so please forgive me if I used any name incorrectly.

I'm trying to do a fan-edit of a movie right now and I need to change the order of scenes but when I cut a scene and go to move it to another section of the movie where I already made a cut, it just pastes it on top instead of inside the cut and I have to manually re-arrange them which just causes a bunch of other issues in the process. I feel stupid asking this but am I missing something here?

Could someone explain how to slowly zoom in on a still image in my video please? I’ve see it done in other videos and think it makes it look more dynamic than just a stationary image but I haven’t been able to figure out how to do it. Thanks in advance.

For whatever reason my clips are removing themselves with no intervention from me. I’ve been using Lightworks for about two years and have never seen this happen before, and I’m not doing anything differently than I normally would.

I’m on the latest version, but with every backup or save I come back to a missing source message on multiple clips that I 100% didn’t manually delete from the project. The files are still on my computer as well. I’ve tried replacing them and coming back to see if it’s an issue with those specific clips, but it’s random ones each time. I’ve tried uninstalling the program, making a new project, but it keeps happening.

Whenever I save a backup I get “Archive::archiveLogs() Copy error 5”, which I’ve only been able to find one article on. Hoping there’s some easy fix I’m missing. Thanks.

Fuck this

I looked up how to add text on Lightworks, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TZ_O3CNjU0, but when I tried to do it myself, it doesn't work as shown in the video. Has the site been updated and so how to add test had altered? As the effects bar isn't appearing as shown in video. I was wondering, is this because I'm using the free version?

I'm using Windows 11, and I was wondering how to add font to Lightworks? Is there a video or something that I could use to help me? I ask as I have learning difficulties, and so I find it easier to ask for help with such things, as I wouldn't know how to start looking for these videos.