DJFJEKETE wrote:
This might be a stupid question but can you use the Lightworks console with other NLE'S ? Such as Final Cut or Avid? Just wondering cause me and a friend were talking about different consoles with different systems.
This is by no means a stupid question, but there are many reasons why it won't work. Sometimes, and in the right circumstances, using controllers across a range of applications can work, but a lot of things have to be in place for this to happen.
You have to make sure that the physical controls map sensibly to the controls in the application, the physical and electrical connections have to be compatible (ie: plugs have to fit into sockets etc) and then the digital protocol has to match.
Probably the best example of something that "just works" is MIDI. And one reason that this works so well is that a keyboard is a keyboard: a standard, western, piano-type keyboard, anyway. The MIDI spec includes the ability to map other controls and functions, but this either needs a "template" from a manufacturer, or it needs the user to set up correspondences manually.
The Lightworks controller is something of a special case, and is really quite opposite to the MIDI keyboard example. It's a very specific controller for a very individual type of editing system.
You could say that using the Lightworks controller with other NLEs is more comparable to taking the flight deck of (say) a modern jet fighter, and fitting it to a civilian airliner. There would be a very bad fit between the fighter's controls and the airliner's, with many of the fighter's controls not having any equivalent at all on the airliner's dashboard. (The controls for firing missiles, for example!).
