Against that, output maxes out at 720p - which may work if you're just making a home movie to share with relatives, but not for anything more serious. Unfortunately, the software doesn’t offer a satisfying solution for users who just want to drag and drop pre-canned effects and titles into their home movies.If you want proof of the regard in which Lightworks is held, consider that the Pro version has been used to create multiple award-winning movies including Pulp Fiction, The Wolf of Wall Street and Jerry Maguire.Įven the free version has a wide range of fairly advanced tools, including some impressive audio-editing options, VFX, color adjustments and more. You can finely tune titles down to the exact pixels of their orientations and locations, carefully customize their shadows, and more. For example, its visual effects tools are easily accessible, and they let you tweak every aspect of the image to a fine degree of detail. Once you’re in though, it’s one of the most powerful free video editors you can find. The Lightworks editor is powerful, but the program doesn’t do as much as some other consumer products to help total beginners learn how to use it. If you set anything different from your video, you’ll have to dive into settings and tweak them until you get it right. While it supports all the import formats that the paid version does, it can be tricky getting everything to import easily for the uninitiated-you have to define project settings like resolution, framerate, and so on before you import your files.

Lightworks guides you through the process of setting up your first project with simple tooltips, but they’re a far cry for the powerful tutorials and wizards available in some other software.

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