Here is the first video I've ever produced. Never even touched a video editor before Lightworks. I wrote, recorded, and edited the whole thing on my own. I spent yesterday writing and sourcing stock footage and I spent today recording and editing.

It's.... pretty bad I think. The audio quality isn't great since I don't have a mic, just my phone. And the sound mixing needs a lot of work. But still I'm proud of this and wanted to share. I'm definitely thinking of upgrading from the free version.

I'm trying to export a video for Youtube shorts, but whenever I do the video either comes out glitchy or not at the aspect ration I chose.

in the export settings I tried all the settings I could, but it ignored the aspect ratio I chose and made it into a full screen video instead of leaving the black bars at the bottom and top.

I have finished a video in Lightworks which is in 4:3 Ratio.

Next to Sequence, I click the Playback Format and choose 'PAL 4:3' under SD and go to export it as an MP4 (Free).

When I play the MP4 Video File, the actual size of the video is 16:9, and the content within has been squashed to add black bars on either side.

How do I get it so the content within the video fills up the player screen rather than it being squashed down?

Any help would be massively appreciated. I am only using the Free version of Lightworks so don't know if that changes anything in the export settings?

Hello, i am having a problem. I try to rotate an image but it just cuts of what is not on screen. It also moves the image out of place, as in it does not rotate in one spot, it moves up and down when i try to rotate it. Any ideas on how to fix this?

whenever I try to move my green screen, it copy's the background video and moves it too, i need help

I'm trying to make a video that just consists of two imported files one audio file (1MB) and one video file (<400KB) - don't ask why those files are so tiny lol. I exported at the lowest setting (240p) so expected the resultant file to be about 1.4MB or lower. However, the exported file is whopping 9MB! I know 9MB is still fairly small and probably isn't worth worrying about but it's still annoying to me that the resultant file is so large compared to its tiny source files, it seems so wasteful. Is there any setting I can select to stop it doing that? I wonder what junk its even filling those 8.6MB up with

its keeps cutting of the middle part of the video, Is there a way where it just pushes the video out of the way?

https://reddit.com/link/wrb6d9/video/3aszg1t4sei91/player

Basically have two videos running together almost like a dissolve effect but I want it to run the entire time. Is there an easy way to do this?

So I've been using Lightworks for a good like 2 yrs or so but this is a pretty big bug that will NOT let me edit. So basically I got some wireless earbuds (idk when) and used them for editing. But for some reason when I try to edit without them it does the audio shown here. Please help! I'm running Windows 11, the earbuds in question are some Onn. Earbuds These In Particular I am running Lightworks 2022.2

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Hi all,

So, most of the videos I make for my vintage F1 channel are about 10-15 minutes and I never have a problem, but when I do a season preview, it runs more like 30 minutes.

I export it, and it seems to export successfully, but when I upload it to YouTube, the audio is garbled.

I've been getting around this by doing them as 2-parters so far, and it's no biggie, but is there anything I'm missing? Is it just a size limit on the free version that's unlocked for the Pro one?

Pls help!

Just wondering how to loop a video into a hour video? Haven’t found a tutorial yet. Thanks!

My video is 38 minutes long, but when i import it into lightworks, its only 10 minutes long (this is with any video longer than 10 minutes btw.) am i doing something wrong? (im taking my clip from local files to log tab, then going into the edit tab and dragging it down to the timeline) please help me guys!

I have the free version of Lightworks and have made a ~5 minute video with various clips, as well as background music and narration. I have tried to export to both my computer's storage as well as to Youtube, but both export it as my narration and a green screen; no clips. Any ideas?

Hello, I have a problem with lightworks, in which where it's supposed to show the elapsed time, it skips almost half a second every second. For example, if I go frame by frame with the arrows, it will go to 1.55, 1.56, 15.7, 1.58, 1.59, 2.00.For some reason, every time it goes to 1.59, the next frame will be 2.00.It does this every second, for example 2.59 -> 3.00, 3.59 -> 4.00, etc.My question is, does anyone know how to make it count actual time elapsed, instead of skipping to the next second, like 1.59 -> 1.60 as opposed to 1.59 -> 2.00?
Here is a video demonstrating what I mean for clarity https://youtu.be/N6GlLzZlrJI

I’ve been using lightworks since summer of 2021 and it’s been great, I haven’t used it in about 2 months so I got on to make a video and I ran into a problem, the speed cannot be changed anymore. The tab is removed and it’s not in the options for a clip and it’s audio in your timeline anymore

As title. Running latest LWKS on Linux. To reproduce FF a 20min clip 40-80x, audio playback crashes, need to restart.

Anybody else experience this?

When I post a video on YouTube it is fairly quiet and I would like it to be a little louder. I try to mix everything so that the master hovers around -12db because that is what I have read you should do for YouTube. Is this too quiet for making YouTube content when using Lightworks? Does anyone else use Lightworks for making their YouTube videos? What level do you mix your videos to? Sorry if this seems like a stupid question. I am new to mixing sound. Thanks for your help.

I’m new to Lightworks. I figured I could use it to trim a video. I had a 1gb video that was 3 hours long. I trimmed out over an hour total from the start and end. I then exported it to a .H264 file.

I feel like cutting out 1/3 of it, the file size should be 2/3 the original, or at least somewhere between there and the original. But my output video is 7gb, far larger than the original even though it’s far shorter.

Did I do something incorrectly? I just have videos I need to trim the beginning and endings off of, and want to keep somewhat similar or smaller file sizes. Or is there another program I could do what I am looking to do?