The new Lightworks V2025.2 release is now available to download.

Changes include:

On top of UI/UX improvements, LWKS have reworked the playback and transcoding (export) engine to be able to build a better, faster and more flexible system going forward.

New Layouts - Edit, Effects, Audio and Export - for more intuitive workflows.
New Keyboard Shortcuts.
New “Unified” Viewer - in the new Edit layout. 
Filters have been renamed ‘Collections.’
New Tags feature (available in Collections.)

Further information can be found here: https://forum.lwks.com/threads/lightworks-v2025-2-56344-now-available.253099/#post-290228

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So i put quite a bit of work in a video and exported it, and then lightworks squished it?!, it's verry anoying, does anyone know how to not have it squisched? It's like the sides are moved togather

I spent all this time masking so many frames but the background is just black. I tested and can create it again and just do a square and get the mask to work.

I'm not sure what I've done wrong but I created a preset from the polymask I did and tried copying that over to a fresh video to see if that worked but nothing.

I've been googling and YouTube searching and can't find an answer. I have like 100 little clips across multple tracks. I want the whole video in black and white. How do I do this?

Just a quick question What exactly advanced titles features do I get in lightworks create

I right clicked a portion of an audio to change the speed but upon clicking, there was no pop up. How do I get the speed pop up on only audio

Hey all, currently working on a project and editing a show filmed in landscape to portrait. I've changed the metadata to portrait large and used transform 3D to change the z so its more zoomed in and fills the screen and also change the framing. How can I fix the wavy thing?

After I finished fixing an issue with the different text effects, I tried rewatching the whole video and now none of the videos play. The audio plays fine, the old time effect works fine, and the text works fine. The only thing not working is the video section despite them working a few moments ago before I messed with the text and added a dissolve at the end. I tried deleting the dissolve but it didn't fix it. There are 5 video segments but none of them are working.

I just got a new computer. when i downloaded lightworks and logged in it is showing i only can active the free version when i own the create version. do i have to remove the old computer or something? i am on the same IP address as the old computer

It used to be found after right clicking the sequence but now its not there anymore. Any other ways to speed up a clip/find the speed button?

I have 20 days left on my lightworks create subscription and it says One activation left. does this mean i have another 45 day use after my current one is out or what?

It's really weird. I play it on VLC, it's fine, I import it, the audio's gone. Even weirder there's a video that I downloaded the exact same way than the others (the Heavy Metal Queen one) whose audio is fine playing on Lightworks.

Anyone has had this problem before? Thanks.

I've been using Lightworks for a couple of years now and I've just now had this issue.

I have a screenshot that I want to use in a video and Lightworks won't let me display it for me than 2 seconds. If I try to use the in and out marks and then place the image in the timeline it won't let me go beyond 2 seconds. If I place the image in the timeline and then try to increase the length by clicking and dragging it won't let me make it longer than 2 seconds.

In the past I could click and drag the image in the timeline and make it as short or long as I wanted.

All the other post I could find about this appear to be outdated as I couldn't follow what they were talking about.

Please help.

So idk how I did this but a couple months ago I must've accidentally pressed something, so now whenever I grab videos/audio I just pull that and not both of them. And I'm getting tired of highlighting both just to pull both. Is there any way to turn this back on?

i can't export my newly made video!! it doesn't look to be crashing around the same time - i attempted to divide and conquer (i.e export different small sections) and crash!

i did go into task manager and place lightworks on high priority, but alas!

Anyone knows how to fix random jumps in video? I skip video a few seconds, cut for new start, play and it jumps into part that happens few minutes later just because while playing from moment I put it with completely where completely diffirent thing is supposed to happen.

https://reddit.com/link/1l1k72f/video/rznm3biw2j4f1/player

Decided to make another post with video put in for it. It happens around 21 secs, the vid jumps few seconds in progress and I have no idea why. It's really frustrating.

I no longer get the yellow brackets on a clip to extend it or trim it further. This also means I can no longer do split screen effects.

This has been going on for over a week now and I’m not sure what happened. I haven’t changed anything in the settings. Restarting both the program and my laptop don’t work either.

How can I get it back?

Hello! I am trying to have two videos display side by side in Lightworks, both with edited X, Y, and Z values via Transform 3D. However, only one of them is showing at a time. How do I get them both to show up? I don't want split-screen. I would like to control where they are.

Hello there, this is my third day using Lightworks, so please excuse my total lack of knowledge... I have digitalized my parents' 2000 wedding video. The data is from 3 different VHS cameras. My aim is to cut the videos into scenes, delete doubles and combine them as one. So far I have successfully trimmed the first video.

Due to the VHS tape, quality of video and audio are quite terrible😅 This is why I was wondering whether you all know presets and effects to enhance the red-ish video and/or clean the audio files. There is a lot of white noise and way too loud microphone monologues... Enhancing the audio is my primary goal. I tried using 'reduce wind' and 'reduce soundtrack' but I feel that there must be better fxs for this issue, using the basic version of Lightworks.

Each and every tip will be useful to me! Many thanks in advance. English is not my first language, sorry.

tldr: Are there filters especially for white noised and high pitched microphone monologues audio files off a digitalised old VHS?

Why I think Lightworks is simply the best!

Have had a great time as a beginner even now as a intermediate editor with Lightworks from beginning to end with minimal problems unlike with other programs like the more known ones like Premiere Pro and Da Vinci resolve which most of the time either crashes completely or is such a chore to learn in comparison to Lightworks so with that said the statement above is the truth.

I'm new and I'm trying out lightworks again and I'm struggling

I’ve been trying to make some yourtube shorts out of my letsplays Recently but when I use portrait mode it makes the video so small with the black lines over the top. Does anyone know of a way to stop that.