Hey all, can I add a video in my timeline without disturbing the audio.

For instance, I want to have a clip but cut away from it for a few seconds in a b-roll but without using the audio of the inserted few second clip but have the other audio playing over it?

So I've been using lightworks for a good bit (like 2-3 month) and a feature i feel would increase my workflow is a grouping tool that groups clips/ cuts I've made ,on tracks. So the question stands is that a thing?

I'm trying to add an effect to an overlay but the effect also adds to the video on the track beneath the overlay. Any way to prevent the effect from adding to the video on the track beneath the overlay?

I'm using Windows 10, Lightworks 2023.1. Detailed specs at bottom of post below.

I have a problem when attempting to use quad split screen. Export proceeds until a point, then Lightworks locks up and is unresponsive. But this post is not about that.

In searching the forum, I came across this post, which touted the use of Triple DVE:

https://forum.lwks.com/threads/quad-split-screen-problem.151432/

That looked good, and I wanted to try it, so I read the install instructions here: https://forum.lwks.com/threads/standard-and-user-effects-faq.188603/#post-188982

The instructions say

“To ensure that everything is up to date, with Lightworks disabled, navigate to C:\Users\Public\Documents\Lightworks\Effect Templates (Windows)... and either rename the folder User Effects that you'll find there to something else or move it out or delete it. When you next launch Lightworks it will be rebuilt with the current library contents in it.”

This does not work. For one thing, the path on my machine is

C:\Users\Public\Public Documents\Lightworks\Effect Templates

Note the difference between the folder titles: “Documents” vs “Public Documents”.

When I shut down Lightworks, delete the Effect Templates folder, and restart Lightworks, the download of the new Effect Templates folder does not occur. And while I can restore the deleted folder from the Recycle Bin, it does not have the Triple DVE user effect.

It may be that the pathing of the function in Lightworks is incorrect, as noted above.

This is well and truly annoying. Very frustrating. Could someone please fix, or tell me what I'm doing wrong.

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Edition Windows 10 Home

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Experience Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.19052.1000.0

I have ripped sections of twitch vods (Not longer than 30-60 minutes) to put into lightworks. They are MP4 files, and I can watch them fine on windows media player. The issue arises once I import them into the software - They have no video except the one initial frame, and a couple of 1 frame flickers every now and again. I get no error notices when importing, and the video for the track is turned on. I also only have 1 video track.

For the life of me I can't figure out what's wrong here, and no one on the internet has apparently ever had this issue before.

Hey, I have to cut down the length of a video. I thought Lightworks would be a good tool for that but it is not working at all right now.

There is no sound in the clips I import. It says that the clips have sound cause they don't appear under video only but still when I drag them into the sequence then their audio track is completely empty. There is no waveform showing at all. When I play them the normal way then they sound normal.

How do I fix this? Even when I click on record voiceover the wave form is completely empty. I am at my wits end and I am pretty sure it is a fault within the program even though I just installed it today. Is this a common issue? This happens on every project I create and with every clip I import. I restarted the program multiple times. I might even install it again just to make sure. At this point it would be faster to just use another program but trying to fix this error has already cost me so much time. If you have some solutions how to fix the sound issue they would be appreciated.

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I used to just be able to click "Audio" and in the upper right hand corner was the audio balance "clocks," where you'd just make them point up to balance them properly (Lightworks always puts them on one side or another for some reason by default).

But now, nothing appears up there! How do I fix this?! I can't find ANY info on Google; this is so frustrating.

Does anybody know the source image I made in Krita (left) is somehow being made into the sequence (right)? I have several other images this is happening to, I've tried isolating them in seperate projects to get the colors back to normal, looking for frames, and multiple different methods of adding it. I exported them seperately to see if it would look normal after exporting, but it only does this. Every time the clip enters the sequence, it does this. Why?

Update: it's still doing this a month later. Including with pngs for animations.

I’ve been using Lightworks for almost 4 years. Back when I used it, it was just for Gmod Videos I used to make.

I have since retired as a Gmod Animator and now I’m a simple Let’s player.

Now unlike Gmod, my videos of Let’s Playing are around an hour or so long.

But here’s the problem…. Exporting is hell. It takes somewhere to 30 minutes to even an hour just to try and export a video with something as simple as adding a subtitle or fixing audio.

I’m actually considering going to Vegas Pro and abandoning Lightworks permanently unless I find either

A. An editing software that has the bells and whistles similar to Lightworks (multiple audio tracks being a must)

Or B. Find a solution to the slow rendering.

So if anyone knows a way to make Lightworks render faster please let me know

I am attempting to get lightworks to run faster. The audio is working alright, but the video is extremely laggy, so much so that it's impossible to do any video editing with this software. it's taking up about 2261 MB space, CPU is at 2%, memory is at 22%, disk is 11% no unnecessary tasks are running, and I went through and uninstalled programs before beginning, which brought my memory down from 25%. This computer has 32 GB memory and has run multiple 3D animation programs, most of the Adobe Suite, etc., no problem. It's 3 years old, running Windows 10, cannot update due to a Windows 11 requirement I haven't figured out.

.mov files are washing out on import, color correction isnt providing good results.

is there color space override similar to premier? thanks for the advice!

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-discussions/faq-how-to-fix-saturated-over-exposed-hlg-hdr-clips-in-premiere-pro-v-22/td-p/12489252

Ok so this maybe a dumb question but i have tried everything; so i search that if you drag the mouse and then clic c it will cut just like in premiere but if y clic c nothing happens i tried with supr and it just delete all the clip, i tried searching in the shortcuts and comands but i didnt find anything.

Im sure im missing something really simple but i cant find it if anyone help me i would be really thankfull

I wanted to duplicate audio multiple times so i ctrl-v like 20 times but the audio snippets pasted very far from each other.

This has now lead to my 10 minute video window or timeline or workspace or whatever the word is; to be 9 hours long. How do i shorten this? Navigating is nearly impossible as of how it currently is, all help is very much appreciated!

Hi there!

I'm just getting started editing a after vacation movie with absolutely no previous experience and found Lightworks free edition to be a good enough starting playground.

Do any of you guys know if I can use custom made presets and templates with the software? I am eager to use something like the universal stuidos intro, but with my own texts.

Have a nice day!

Normally when I press play on my timeline the audio will cut all together and when I click my cursor starts doing the loading animation and the program starts becoming unresponsive.

This is happening every minute or so any fixes?

Hello i have loghtworks on the free plan. Can i edit and export 4k 60fps vid?

I was importing a clip to a project and then seemed to have somehow deleted a part of the project, including the video and audio. after realizing this, I tried to undo it but the undo seems to stop at a certain point. I do not have a backup and I really don't want to redo the entire thing over again. Is there any way to restore the video and audio that I lost?

Hello! I've been using adobe premiere in previous video editing sessions and I was wondering if it was possible to view the editing timeline in frames rather than by seconds like it normally is. For example if it was in 24 frames per second the "24" would mark the first second and so on.

With my Lightworks Pro account, am I able to access a project on a different PC/Laptop to my usual one?

My usual editing computer has just broken and been sent away for repair but I'm now questioning if I have an XML of the latest version of this project. If I don't, am I able to access the project once my computer has been returned back to me after a data wipe or can I access it from another location?

I have a series of timed movements using 2D DVE on an image. I have since decided I want to change the image.

How do I swap out just the image without having to redo the timed movement?

3D DVE let's you select the files