Lightworks Mac Public Beta

[Tony West]

[Herb Sevush] “I worked like that in FCP legacy all the time, in my case the video clips were up on tracks 3 and 4, the audio also on 3 and 4 – disabled.”

A perfect example right there Herb of just personal preference : )

I just like grabbing the one source and dragging all three down to a spot at once (or back up when I want it).

I respect your organized way of doing it. Another editor might look at my timeline and say, what’s that doing down there? hahaha

I guess that’s really it for me. I’m doing multiple things in one move. I’m just trying to work as efficiently as I can.

[Bill Davis]

I’ll drop in whatever the art director supplies. Might be a layered psd, or a tiff, or I might take his specs and just build it in X directly if its mostly type – but could be something out of any design program. I may have to momentarily visit Graphic Converter or Pixelmator to be fair – but I have dropped my Photoshop rental and am down to just Lightroom in terms of Adobe SW on my Mac. If they ever push that over to rental only, I’ll have to hope Apple does an Aperture X version soon! Sigh.

Know someone who teaches video editing in elementary school, high school or college? Tell them to check out http://www.StartEditingNow.com – video editing curriculum complete with licensed practice content.

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Mitch Ives] “Only if I get to write yours and Bill’s… ;-)”

Just wait until Resolve 11 comes out, then you can write mine.

[Mitch Ives]

[Jeremy Garchow] “Just wait until Resolve 11 comes out, then you can write mine.”

LOL… I trust you to write your own…

Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.

“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill

[Gary Huff]

[Jeff Markgraf] “Can’t wait for the inevitable “Lightworks or Not: The Debate” forum”

I predict it will have just as much action as the current one.

[Bret Williams]

To expand on your statement, are you saying…

The run and gun low end doesn’t have any need for it and the high end gets great results from specialization?

So where does that put the CC integration market? The mediocre middle? Just extrapolating. 🙂

[Bret Williams]

I’ve dropped it as well. But you didn’t mention any vector apps! When they hand you an ai or eps file and need you to animate the pieces, no amount of bitmap editors are going to do you much good. You need to pull out the vector elements and animate them.

For that we have iDraw! I think it’s $25. Very similar to Illustrator, especially for those that are using Illustrator as a means to an end, not as a designer. Half a months Adobe rent can have you iDraw for life. No it’s not Ai. But it’s pretty decent. There’s just such a ridiculous divide in cost here.

Me, I’ve still got CS5 Master Collection. PS, AE, Ai seem to be working just fine in Mavericks. For how long, I don’t know.

[Charlie Austin]

[Bret Williams] “So where does that put the CC integration market? The mediocre middle? Just extrapolating. 🙂
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Enough of the “pro /not pro/high/middle/low nonsense. Editing is an art form, I propose we define those who prefer the order and familiarity of tracks etc as Classicists, and people who prefer a more free form pallet as Romantics.

Nicer don’t you think? 🙂 Much better than Trackheads and Fanbois….

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[Jok Daniel]

[Charlie Austin] “Editing is an art form, I propose we define those who prefer the order and familiarity of tracks etc as Classicists, and people who prefer a more free form pallet as Romantics. “

Then Lightworks, with its extremely malleable and freeform organisational model wedded to a classic tracked timeline, would be Romantic Classicism.

[Charlie Austin]

[Jok Daniel] “[Charlie Austin] “Editing is an art form, I propose we define those who prefer the order and familiarity of tracks etc as Classicists, and people who prefer a more free form pallet as Romantics. ”

Then Lightworks, with its extremely malleable and freeform organisational model wedded to a classic tracked timeline, would be Romantic Classicism.”

Based on my admittedly limited time playing around with it today, I’d say maybe more Cubist. 😉

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~”It is a poor craftsman who blames his tools.”~
~”The function you just attempted is not yet implemented”~