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TOPIC: How do you make use of LW rooms?

How do you make use of LW rooms? 2 years, 2 months ago #7366

I haven't really gotten round to making use of LW rooms. I would be interested in hearing about other people's examples of using rooms in a project.
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Re: How do you make use of LW rooms? 2 years, 2 months ago #7375

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Yeah, this is interesting.
Here are some suggestions:
Editing, Color Grading, Data Management, Life-Editing, Sound Editing.

I know that you're not supposed to do this simultaneously especially if your main purpose is to "tell a story". But on the other hand: When LW will be released to OS it will be used for everything but telling a story. So me, editing my little videos, will lose interest in doing the pure montage and than I want to play around with something else. Hah, now this comes in handy

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Re: How do you make use of LW rooms? 2 years, 2 months ago #7388

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Hi shaunthesheep
I use rooms in much the same way, Ingesting, Viewing, Colour Correction,Audio mixing, and basically organizing those clips needed for the session. I also use a room for checking clips for format etc. Generally use about 4-6 rooms. It helps to keep things less cluttered. In some rooms no need for edit or time line to be on screen and bins can be organized better.
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Re: How do you make use of LW rooms? 2 years, 2 months ago #7391

Hi, Shaun, I think Jwrl is one of the most suitable members to tell us about the use of the rooms, since he is an "old school" LW user.. As a user of Adobe Premiere, in that respect I think Lightworks exceeded all my expectations for a video editing software.
I'm used to have multiple sequences inside a project in Premiere, but Lightowrks's concept of rooms is like having multiple projects within a single one!
Right now, while testing the beta, I'm using the rooms to organize my tests which include the same imported footage. Instead of having several edits in the same room for each purpose, I prefer doing different kind of tests in each room, and so, in one room, I can make several edits aproaching differently the same issue.
In my humble opinion about this matter (and off course I might be wrong), I think about "rooms" as a feature/concept only understood and used at its full potential by professionals involved in a full featured film industry environment or similar (like advertising or major TV productions for example).
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Re: How do you make use of LW rooms? 2 years, 2 months ago #7402

Many thanks for your responses. That has given me some good ideas. I suppose rooms can be used like the tool sets (capture, editing, audio, effects) in Avid?
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Re: How do you make use of LW rooms? 2 years, 2 months ago #7427

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Rooms can be thought of in a similar way to Avid toolsets, yes. Similar, but not the same. Since you can dynamically change the function of a room without having to go through the rigmarole of deliberately selecting "Save Current" I think that they are more powerful. You're also not limited in the number and functionality of rooms as you are with MC's toolsets, either.

Just one example: If you're working in a classic Editor/Assistant environment you can set up nested rooms for you and a different set for your assistant(s), each containing their own tool environment but still part of the master project. As Fran said, Lightworks' concept of rooms is like having multiple projects within a single one.

As I said in another post earlier today, play with it, experiment. You'll only truly appreciate the power of rooms once you've had a little experience of them.

PS: Thanks for dropping me in it, Fran!
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