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It would be great and much easier if we could do so multiple times and also decide if the edits that we do to the effect at one specific clip should carry on to the group or not.

greetings,
compul]]> Feature Requests Fri, 17 May 2013 16:08:27 +0000 http://www.lwks.com/index.php?option=com_kunena&func=view&catid=12&id=45822&Itemid=81#45822 http://www.lwks.com/index.php?option=com_kunena&func=view&catid=12&id=45822&Itemid=81#45822
I am still missing some essential things in Lightworks which would make the NLE way better and competitive:

1. Smart rendering: For many common NLEs on the market that is implemented as a standard. For instance, when all my source material is in MPEG-2 (or MPEG-4 or whatever) and I want to render my edit again to the same format which the source footage consists of, there is no reason to render the entire content once more. Only where transitions or FX were applied, there it is enough to render once more. In many cases the major part of the source footage stays the same. Maybe some scenes are shortened, but even then smart rendering would prevent that stuff from getting touched once more. Currently, in such a scenario Lightworks renders the entire edit, which is like making a photocopy of the photocopy, leading in unnecessary quality loss. So dev guys, could you please implement smart rendering in Lightworks?
2. Computer shut-down when rendering is finished: Quite often and especially with the current beta, rendering takes hours. So what people do quite often is letting that work do at nighttime, but when the rendering is finished at, let's say 1 AM the computer is running idle for the rest of the night, consuming power and getting older. So my proposal is, put a checkbox at the export dialog with the description text: "Shut down computer when rendering is finished."

Would be great to get these two things to life

Cheers,
Tim]]> Feature Requests Fri, 10 May 2013 16:12:25 +0000 http://www.lwks.com/index.php?option=com_kunena&func=view&catid=12&id=45679&Itemid=81#45679 http://www.lwks.com/index.php?option=com_kunena&func=view&catid=12&id=45679&Itemid=81#45679
1). could not install without a bunch of troubleshooting. when i got to the forum i found out the hasp error has been a problem for 7 months.

2). one icon - forced to desktop without asking.

what if i like to keep my desktop clean?

at least give me the choice.

you have started off on the wrong foot, this better be stellar software]]> Feature Requests Thu, 09 May 2013 02:06:59 +0000 http://www.lwks.com/index.php?option=com_kunena&func=view&catid=12&id=45657&Itemid=81#45657 http://www.lwks.com/index.php?option=com_kunena&func=view&catid=12&id=45657&Itemid=81#45657
I am currently learning how to make YouTube videos, which includes a lot of very precise jump cuts. I have used final cut once, and when you went forewards or back a frame it played a brief loop of the audio in that frame. That made it possible to make cuts between someones words.

But the way scrubbing speed changes pitch makes it impossible to understand speech when using the mouse or keys.

This would be a very useful option to have available]]> Feature Requests Wed, 08 May 2013 19:25:24 +0000 http://www.lwks.com/index.php?option=com_kunena&func=view&catid=12&id=45538&Itemid=81#45538 http://www.lwks.com/index.php?option=com_kunena&func=view&catid=12&id=45538&Itemid=81#45538
Would it be possible to add a RGB full range 0-255 AVI export option in Lightworks free?]]> Feature Requests Tue, 07 May 2013 08:30:00 +0000 http://www.lwks.com/index.php?option=com_kunena&func=view&catid=12&id=45365&Itemid=81#45365 http://www.lwks.com/index.php?option=com_kunena&func=view&catid=12&id=45365&Itemid=81#45365 First off, I am not nearly as active as many others on the forum since I am still getting this career in media started, thus if this feature has been requested or discussed, please accept my apology and delete the post, no need to keep it on the server.

I got another project to edit, conference kinda boring with one camera angle. The clips are AVI from DV Tapes. I import via Transcode since I can use the proxy whilst editing.

I use (currently) an external USB3 HDD for my media files and editing and LWKS links the project files to that. I noticed again in the root of that HDD, the "Material" and "Sound" folders. I don't like this. I browsed through it quickly and found various video files (the Material folder) relating to my timelapse video, another conference I edited etc. I personally don't like this jumbling together of various projects files.

I like to keep all the files related to a project in its own project folder but it seems LWKS does not work like that natively (settings that I am missing perhaps?).

Is it not possible for LWKS to:
- Ask where the project folder is upon creation of a new project
- Save all files (project file, editing file, transcoded footage, etc) into that project folder

This means then that each project file will have its own "Material" and "Sound" folder and the LWKS project folder which has the editing data etc in it, as well as in my case, the raw and/or third party transcoded footage.

This way, and I could be wrong, you can move that entire project folder manually to where-ever you want, and LWKS will be able to pickup the entire project upon relinking which then also means LWKS will automatically relink footage upon opening and asking the user to point to the project folder since it can't find it in the usual place.

I don't like that LWKS saves project related files in various places on my PC. I think it is a cleaner file/folder management approach for LWKS if all project related files are saved in the same project folder.

Thanks again for LWKS.]]> Feature Requests Sun, 05 May 2013 08:01:00 +0000 http://www.lwks.com/index.php?option=com_kunena&func=view&catid=12&id=44521&Itemid=81#44521 http://www.lwks.com/index.php?option=com_kunena&func=view&catid=12&id=44521&Itemid=81#44521
I just did up an effect rotating from 6 degrees to 354 through 0. To do so I had to cut the effect in half, manually set a key frame just past 0 at 359.87 (it was doing about .13 degrees per frame) and go from there. Not the end of the world .. but it would be convenient if I could just specify the direction of rotation. Then if I wanted to change within an effect I could set it as "active" and change at a keyframe.

Cheers,
Dave]]> Feature Requests Sat, 27 Apr 2013 11:33:11 +0000 http://www.lwks.com/index.php?option=com_kunena&func=view&catid=12&id=44383&Itemid=81#44383 http://www.lwks.com/index.php?option=com_kunena&func=view&catid=12&id=44383&Itemid=81#44383 Feature Requests Thu, 25 Apr 2013 10:50:27 +0000 http://www.lwks.com/index.php?option=com_kunena&func=view&catid=12&id=44376&Itemid=81#44376 http://www.lwks.com/index.php?option=com_kunena&func=view&catid=12&id=44376&Itemid=81#44376
I need to deliver in ProRes. I have no option, that's what clients need.

Footage is shot Alexa ProRes, handed to me in ProRes and they want ProRes out. Normally I'd just cut then hit export out of the Avid and I'd get a first generation file. Not being able to do that in Lightworks is a huge issue for me.

I don't care about cost. This is for business - I just need reliability. The price sensitivity starts near the cost of buying Avid. I want to run Lightworks, but what I can't do is set up a workflow that runs client footage through multiple exporters.

Currently I'm importing ProRes into Lightworks, cutting in Lightworks, exporting DNxHD, importing DNxHD into After Effects or Avid, then exporting ProRes. That's just insane as a workflow. I can't do that with a client in the room, regardless of how much I want to run Lightworks.

I need to work in and deliver in multiple formats all the time. Avid, Final Cut and Premiere all allow you to cut and export in almost any format. Avid is native throughout with the AMA support. In general, I do almost exclusively use ProRes and DNxHD. I'm not cutting old strange stuff, and if I have 4k 16bitRaw uncompressed like last week, I'm doing an online/offline workflow anyway. However, for quick Alexa shot stuff or general quick turnaround stuff converting a file through multiple generations of lossy (DNxHD and ProRes are both lossy even though they claim to be "visually lossless") formats is a serious issue.

If Lightworks is going to be accepted as a serious competitor in my facility I need this kind of professional level codec support. The current codec support in Lightworks feels like Avid 7 years ago: make everything the same codec and frame rate, then start cutting. Lightworks being conservative and skipping out some codecs is understandable: there's always more codecs coming... Not having the most widely used one fully inbuilt is a pain.

When I'm faced with these problems can't I'm told: "Why are you using unsupported software? Use Avid. We never have these problems in Avid"

Telling the producer the interface is better and faster on Lightworks isn't an acceptable answer, even if he agreed with me and thought it the best editor on the planet. The client needs reliability.

I need to be able to hand someone a quicktime out at the end of the day: simple and quick. Everyone else I know mainly uses ProRes nowadays. That's what they want, that's what I have to hand them.

In my environment, I simply need more codec support to use Lightworks as my main editor. First and foremost I need to be able to cut and export ProRes in any flavour (422, 422(HQ), 444).]]> Feature Requests Thu, 25 Apr 2013 08:25:47 +0000 http://www.lwks.com/index.php?option=com_kunena&func=view&catid=12&id=44323&limit=6&limitstart=18&Itemid=81#44323 http://www.lwks.com/index.php?option=com_kunena&func=view&catid=12&id=44323&limit=6&limitstart=18&Itemid=81#44323
That said... if anyone could give me a better workflow than the way I'm doing it... that would be great too!

On the Tile view -- I like to check through the footage ultra quickly and maybe set a poster-frame. So I'd love it if the scrubbing worked more like Final Cut X. There's a lot to hate about the FCP X interface, but the auto scrubbing on the Tiles (once you're used to it) is really nice.

In Lightworks, if the clip tile in the bin scrubbed when you moved your mouse over it that would be awesome. Even better -- if there was just a little strip of the tile along the bottom or top that scrubbed. Having to click out a strip to skim through, then close it again is just a little bit extra cumbersome when I'm organising footage into bins.

(An extra large tile option would also be nice!)

On the Strip View, scrubbing is a particular problem for me because I don't have a console or jog wheel and I'm using the mouse/keyboard setup to get around. I constantly try to grab the playhead using the mouse and miss. I often catch the Video track and roll or move it by accident.

Off the top of my head I can see three ways of sorting this.

1 - The Avid way: make the scrubbing landing area adjustable in size. In Avid I make the Timecode Bar at the bottom of the sequence extra large so there's a big landing area for me to scrub with. Whenever you click on that area nothing happens, there's no footage to drag and no options to change. It's a null space for scrubbing. Now there may be a way to change the size of the target area for the playhead in Lightworks, but I haven't found it -- I'd love to know if there is! Perhaps you could make the playhead scrubbing area like the other sections of the timeline -- with a minimise triangle. As it is now by default would be minimised, but if you expanded it you could change the size of the playhead scrubbing/zoom area to whatever size you want.

2 - The FCP X way: auto-scrubbing playhead. As I said, I rather like the auto-scrubbing playhead in FCP X. Wherever your mouse touches on the timeline shows up in the monitor (until you toggle it off). Now since there is a totally different trimming interface this is more complicated and other UX issues may arise. It's probably not something that can just be copied. That said, if there was a toggle on/off I think it could be implemented to work. When turned on it would discourage simple drag and drop editing while encouraging the mark and park keyboard hotkey/shuttle style. You wouldn't want the mouse on the stripview except for moving the playhead.

3 - A simple modifier key (the Lightworks audio scrubbing way). Could you add a modifier so that when you press it and click the mouse it has no effect in the strip view except to move the playhead. I'm thinking that if you could Control-Left Click (or Alt or whatever modifier makes sense) and just move the playhead this would be a very cool and simple solution.


I read a bunch of people in the forums and elsewhere with much the same issue as me. When you're on mouse, it's really those big quick scrubs I miss from in Final Cut and Avid. It's not even about dragging and dropping because I'm all about using the Ligthworks keyboard now, which is super fast. I tend to edit with two hands on the keyboard and occasional mouse moves.

Even still, you use the mouse a lot when organising footage. When editing... the tiny scrubbing bar on the strip view seems unnecessarily fiddly in terms of mouse based scrubbing. Especially when you want to do something quickly with the playhead/mouse and get your hands back on the keyboard to continue cutting.]]> Feature Requests Wed, 24 Apr 2013 15:52:19 +0000