

With time saving elements like this Lightworks might just be the fastest editing application available. Lightworks allows you to continue editing whilst you are importing a batch of material, rendering your complicated third party FX or exporting two files at the same time to your favourite format. We believe that users should be able to import, render or export without delay. Check out the detailed Tech Specs for a full list of supported formats. MXF, Quicktime and AVI containers, with almost every format you can think of importing natively without the need for transcoding, from ProRes, Avid DNxHD, AVC-Intra, DVCPRO HD, RED R3D, DPX, AVCHD (with AC3 audio), H.264, XDCAM EX / HD 422, all on the same timeline in realtime. Lightworks has the widest format support available in any professional NLE. Lightworks gives you everything you need to make your next movie look great! Offering the same tools that professionals around the world have been using every day for the last 20 years to edit feature films, dramas, news and sports. Our mission is to give everybody access to the most affordable professional non-linear video editor available.

We believe that to make great work, you need great tools. Lightworks is our full-featured editor with all the power, performance and features you would expect, with support for all major professional broadcast formats from SD, HD, 2K and Red 4K files. That was all done on the one W7/MC7 system, so in my experience the two do definitely play nice together.Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 MOV files for use in an existing Avid project. It's an advantage I made use of as recently as yesterday, when I used Lightworks to rip a client's DVD, select just the shots that he needed and export them as DV format. It will quite happily coexist with Media Composer. If all that you want is the media in the archive, you can download and install Lightworks free of charge.


The project itself can't be imported into Media Composer, and the workflow of the two systems can be quite dissimilar. That's the point at which the Lightworks tutorial ceases to be of use in an Avid environment. You would then need to AMA link or import the unpacked media into Avid. If you do it will unpack into D:\Material, where D: is your chosen media drive. If you don't have a media drive set up for Lightworks that would then unpack the media used into C:\Users\Public\Documents\Lightworks\Media\Material on a Windows system (can't recall the exact path for Mac or Linux). You would have to install Lightworks and import the archive. That project is a Lightworks archive, which is not in any way compatible with Avid or any other NLE.
