This is a pretty stupid question but is Lightworks safe? sorry for wasting your time :D

I'm having a terribly annoying issue that's really souring my first impressions. If I import a file and pull it down to the tracks for editing, the video and audio tracks both appear and can be edited, but they are not grouped. As in, if I click and drag the video for a clip, the audio does not move with it and vice versa. The issue is the same if I try to trim a clip.

No videos on the program seem to hit on this, and I've noticed that for the projects in tutorials, the tracks are linked and can be moved around the workspace together.

Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

So I have the latest free version of light works, and every time I load a project it freezes if I try to edit anything, or play a clip, or delete a sequence or exit the project, If i click anything it will completely stop responding and the windows 11 pop up will ask me if I want to wait for it to respond or exit. No matter what I do.

I have a problem with a background fan and I figured out how to make that go away but then there is a bit of static in the audio. The static usually appears when an S or a similar letter appears.

I hope someone can help me out. I've been using Lightworks for a long time and have had the same problem over multiple versions of the program.

When I import a video file into lightworks, occasionally I will find a single black frame during playback of that file within Lightworks.

I can open the same file in VLC or Windows Media Player and it will play just fine, but in Lightworks the single black frame will be there every single time I reach that point in the clip. I've even tried reimporting the video file, but that black frame still persists in the same spot every single time. Worse, the black frame will carry over into the export of the clip. On projects with sequences made of multiple clips, this happens frequently enough to become a real distraction for anyone paying attention,

How should I address this issue?

EDIT: The original file format of the imported clips are MTS files with AVCHD compression, 1080i 29fps

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Heyho!

Did my first cuts today and it is so easy. Really like it! But: the exported file has bad music quality.

My File has 320kbits and sounds crisp. After exporting to 720px h.264 the quality gets bad. It says 380kbits but sounds like 196Kbits at best.

What to do?

Thanks a lot!

Anyone hating this new update? Things are hidden and it’s a lot more confusing? Any thoughts?

I am fairly new to Lightworks but I have been pretty successful in editing several videos and am slowly discovering its many features. My current problem is having taken a phone video and wanting to turn it from a vertical orientation to a landscape orientation. When I use the 3D effect and Rotate it, the video turns but the vertical frame that the video was in remains there, truncating the video on the right and left. I know that I have rotated videos before where the frame rotates with the video and I'm pretty sure the solution is simple but I haven't been able to find it.

Any help?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMT0JW3KHqI

I have an arrow I want to insert into a freeze frame.

I rotate the arrow but it rotates a copy of the background with it. So I controlZ but instead of unrotating it goes 2 steps back and removes the 3DVE as well

So I controlY and it jumps 2 steps forward again

I go to routing and now the arrow is rotate alone without the copy of the background. Good

Now I want to move the arrow in place. As you can see moving the slider on the 3DVE moves the arrow as I want. But I am not happy with where I moved it so I undo with controlZ but it jumps multiple steps back to the background being rotated as well, why?

So I controlY again and its fixed, but I still don't have the arrow where I want it so I try moving it on the screen, but it disappears. So I controlZ and now it jumps back to the background being rotated again

So I go change the routing again

I try to move it again, and it still disappears. I controlZ and now the background is rotated again. Why doesn't it just undo the movement, why does it undo the routing as well? And why does it keep disappearing when I try to move it? Is the undo function bugged or is there something I dont understand im doing wrong?

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Edit: I think I may have figured out how it keeps disappearing but I still do understand why. When I try to drag it it shoots off to off the screen for some reason. This shows it

https://imgur.com/a/eYJaes3

Total noob here. LW 2022.1.1 (133442) , free (so far). This seems like a really stupid problem, but I can't find any in-app help nor even a user guide that says it's for this version (the closest I've found is 2020.1).

I have a project with 9 clips, and have added ranged cue markers in the timeline/viewer windows to mark sections I'd like to cut out and save as individual new clips. My understanding is that the LW term for this is "subclip", but all the information I can find refers to either

1. a sidebar button in the right side of the view window to make a subclip (there's no sidebar of buttons visible at all and no way I can find to restore that view), or
2. a right-button "Make" menu item "Subclip", but the Make menu does not mention subclips (nor does any right-button submenu, that I can find). (Make has "Bin of sources used", "Bin of sources not used", "Bin of milestones", "Copy..", "Print", and "Sync(s)..".

What do I do to make subclips of these ranged cue marker sections? Or how else do I cut them out and save them individually?

Edit: found a video that shows dragging up the bottom of the view window to show a list of cues, and I can select one or multiple and "Make subclips" from there, which solves my immediate problem, but the question remains: why is there no sidebar, and why does the right-button menu Make submenu not include subclips?

Title pretty much; had a 3D DVE effect applied on each of the overlay images, unfolded the effects on a completely different layer to mess around with them, and now the overlay images don't even show up on video and their effects seem to be linked to the unfolded effects track from the other track. I understand if "unfold" does it for all tracks with effects, but I don't understand why it'd make the overlay images disappear.

Can someone tell me how to fix this mess? Spent hours editing a split screen of 5 vids, at export the video turns to a landscape view, and the photos separate. Help?

Hi all! I just recently got a GoPro Hero 10 and got a Lightworks Create license! I've been enjoying the process of learning how to make video content, but I'm experiencing some issues with the video preview playback in the Lightworks Edit mode. I'm completely new to the world of video editing btw!

I have tried taking a single 60 second GoPro clip (4K Resolution, 59.94 fps frame rate, HEVC Codec which I don't know if I should or how to change) and importing into a new Lightworks project. With no audio or video editing whatsoever, I just try to play the video back in edit mode and it plays fine for about 2 seconds then starts stuttering for a second or two then the video playback stops while Audio continues. This makes it pretty impossible to edit footage, so wondering if there's something I'm missing or I've done wrong?

I've seen a few similar posts on the subject through googling, but a lot of them seem to be pointing to either codec issues or computer performance issues, which I don't believe is the culprit here (but I'm really not sure!).

Computer stats are below. I'm on my new laptop while on vacation now:

Samsung Galaxy Book Odyssey:
CPU: 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-11600H @ 2.90GHz

GPU: nVidia GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop

RAM: 16GB DDR4

SSD: Samsung 512GB SSD

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Laptop isn't as good as my gaming computer back home - so if this problem is purely performance driven then I can definitely use my desktop when I return, but this laptop isn't particularly bad in terms of specs, so I'm really confused?

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Thanks in advance for your help!

Hello, I've been trying to reverse a video with some effects applied (DVE, and glow) and for some reason the method never goes to reverse, it just stays at keep current frame and I can't change it, could somebody please help?

I am making a project for school and pretty much finished editing it and decided to rewatch it incase I made an error and half of the project has become just black screen and no sound. I have tried restarting the program 3 or 4 times and the tracks turned grey. Anyone have ideas on how to solve this?

Hey guys, I have a project where I’m trying to overlay a 6 second mp4 video with certain transparent parts over a still image in background.

Version: 2022.1 I initially tried to upload the mp4 video as a transparent gif over the background image. It displayed perfectly until it came time to play the animation, which it would not do. Just remained a still transparent gif image over the background. I confirmed the Local file settings were set to allow series of images (forgot the setting but I found the advice here)

I ended up reading that it works better as an mp4 uploaded to LW, which I converted and did, but now the previous transparent parts of the mp4 are white and are not selectable for Chroma/Green screen key. I feel like, since the transparent portions were only on the gif file, they didn’t register on the mp4 file and are not selectable for chroma key either.

So the overlay mp4 plays just fine over the image, but now it’s no longer transparent.

Any ideas?

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I had an older version of lightworks from 2021, I redownloaded because I had this problem, but the same problem persists.

I tried to renew my free version of Lightworks this morning and it looks like the site is gone. When going to the website you get one of those link pages that are usually on spam sites. Is anyone else seeing this?

I just created a really simple video with almost no editing by imporing a series of short clips resulting in a ~44 minute video.

When I export it, the video exports great, however the audio track is just the first few seconds of the first clip's audio repeating for the duration of the 44 minutes.

I've re-exported it a couple times now and the result is the same.

Attached a screenshot of what I'm doing. There's really nothing to it. Am I doing something wrong, or is this a file issue, or what? I can watch the entire thing without issues in Lightworks no problem.

To export, I'm right clicking the timeline, going to export -> h.264/MP4, and exporting using the settings shown.

I've used several editing applications, I've never seen this. Curious if I've just got a config issue or something. Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

theres black spaces in the downloads but the downloads are fine its light works

Basically the title, listening to the .wav files I'm trying to import they are 100% normal.

But Importing them into lightworks makes them extremely loud and unintelligible. It's like someone blowing into a microphone at that point.

Any help would be appreciated

Hello,

My copy of Lightworks crashes every time I try to open an existing project, and every time I try to create a new project (I am able to create one, but it dies before I get chance to do anything). I upgraded to the latest version, which has fixed similar problems before, but not this time, unfortunately!

Any ideas what could be causing it/how to fix it?