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Thursday, January 27, 2011

Lightworks 10.0.3 available

The new version of edting software Lightworks 10.0.3 is available

The main new feature dirrect support of following codec / format:

Import

Quicktime DV / DVCAM
Quicktime DVCPRO
Quicktime DVCPRO 50
Quicktime DVCPRO HD
Quicktime H.264 (playback performance dependant on CPU – transcode recommended)
Quicktime AVCHD (playback performance dependant on CPU – transcode recommended)
Quicktime Photojpeg (playback performance dependant on CPU – transcode recommended)
MXF OpAtom DVCPRO (P2)
MXF OpAtom DVCPRO 50 (P2)
MXF OpAtom DVCPRO HD (P2)
MXF Op1a DV / DVCAM (XDCAM)
MXF Op1a MPEG-2 SD I-Frame (10Mb/s – 50Mb/s)
MXF Op1a MPEG-2 HD I-Frame (50Mb/s – 300Mb/s)
AVI DV / DVCAM
AVI DVCPRO
AVI DVCPRO 50
AVI DVCPRO HD
AVI Uncompressed SD
AVI Uncompressed HD
AVI MPEG-2 SD I-Frame
AVI MPEG-2 HD I-Frame
AVI MJPEG
Image Seqeuence (BMP, Targa, TIFF, JPEG, PNG – others still to be tested fully)

Export

Quicktime DV / DVCAM
Quicktime DVCPRO
Quicktime DVCPRO 50
Quicktime DVCPRO HD
MXF OpAtom DVCPRO (P2)
MXF OpAtom DVCPRO 50 (P2)
MXF OpAtom DVCPRO HD (P2)
MXF Op1a MPEG-2 SD I-Frame (10Mb/s – 50Mb/s)
MXF Op1a MPEG-2 HD I-Frame (50Mb/s – 300Mb/s)
AVI DV / DVCAM
AVI DVCPRO
AVI DVCPRO 50
AVI DVCPRO HD
AVI Uncompressed SD
AVI Uncompressed HD
AVI MPEG-2 SD I-Frame
AVI MPEG-2 HD I-Frame

Other codecs, such as Avid DNxHD, ProRes, AVC-Intra, RED and DPX will be available as options very shortly.

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Lightworks simple editing done

Finaly I have been very sucesseful in first simple editing scenarion in Lightworks. This youtube guide Lightworks Editing Tips helps a lot in basic ideas. But rest were hours just to try it. The main question - export of edited timeline I solved by exporting to the Matrox HD codec or direct loosless Lightworks codec. But I have still a lot of things to learn in video editing in Lightworks. The short time goals are: