Our mission is to give everybody access to the most affordable professional non-linear video editor available. Lightworks, claim the creators, is a “full-featured editor with all the power, performance and features you would expect, with support for all major professional broadcast formats from SD, HD, 2K and Red 4K files.” The people at EditShare, the company responsible for the program, “believe that to make great work, you need great tools. Furthermore, there are recent public beta versions of the program to download, for the different platforms. The new 10 part series of tutorials gets you up and running with Lightworks 11.5, covering everything from starting a new project to getting organised, editing, trimming, audio work and of course exporting your final film.įor even more Lightworks tutorials check out all the previous posts in the Lightworks category on this blog as well as absorbing these great tips from the Sharkbites 4 part series on making the most of keyboard shortcuts when editing in Lightworks.A non-linear editor system praised by many of Hollywood’s top names, Lightworks is not on the top list of video editors, but that does not stop the creators from investing in a program that is popular in Windows and now can claim to be the first offering versions for Mac, Windows and Linux. The pro version allows you to export to more than just Youtube and enables all of the third party proprietary codecs. You can also pay a one-time fee of £179.99/$279.99 for that version (with free minor updates). Lastly you really can’t beat the price of the pro version at £49.99/$79.99 a year or just £4.99/$7.99 a month. It’s coming together, but it looks like it’ll be next year at this point.

The Mac version of #Lightworks won’t ship this month.

If you’re still waiting for the Mac version, well you’ll just have to keep waiting. You can also watch these short walk through tutorials.

There are a huge number of new features added to the free and paid for versions of the program, which is easily powerful, and capable enough, of rivalling all the other major NLEs.įor a full list of what’s new in 11.5 you can download this pdf or you can read a quick summary over on the official Lightworks site. Lightworks 11.5 (for Windows and Linux) is now available to download.

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