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We have updated the installers for 2025.1 with revision 149576.

This new build has some important changes listed below, including increasing the supported Fedora build version to 40, meaning this version will no longer support earlier versions of Fedora:
Added extra safety on thumbnail images on the Import panel
Added further improvements to the licensing panel
The description of the Free version now includes the year
Added 'v' prefix to version description on perpetual licenses (so it looks less like an expiry date)
Added the correct information for inactive/invalid Create/Pro licenses for Perpetual/Subscription (instead of 'Invalid')
Added the user email address under the username
Fixed media relinking when candidate files have non-matching prefixes
Fixed it being possible to end up with effect-controls on the viewer when there are no effects
Fixed some instances where effect sliders will not work immediately after adding an effect
Fixed missing audio tracks on MP4 clips from Pixel cameras
Fixed potential crash closing the sequence timeline (Flexible layout)
Fixed incorrect export item when clicking the Export tool when it's already positioned over a tile or bin (Flexible layout)
Fixed incorrect behaviour when chord clicking the Export tool (Flexible layout)
Fixed issues when resizing the Effects Settings panel when the Zoom effect is applied
Fixed the yellow bounding box on the Zoom effect not always appearing correctly
Prevented effects overlays from being moved on record viewers with the FX Settings panel closed (Flexible layout)
Fixed Effect sliders not updating on sequences in shared projects
Fixed 4k Apple ProRes media displaying incorrectly when paused if downscaled to 1080p in the sequence timeline
Fixed DVC100 media not playing back full frame
Fixed hang when changing the 'Playback colour space' to rec2020 with the Video Tools panel open in Flexible layout (macOS)
Fixed application not remembering the UI being stretched over multiple monitors on restart (macOS)
Fixed issues with AJA hardware I/O not being detected correctly (macOS and Windows)


We have updated the installers for 2025.1 with revision 149337.

This new build includes several important fixes. The full list of changes can be seen below:
Added extra safety on thumbnail images on the Import panel
Now show 12-bit only for ProRes444(4) exports (it's always 12 bit, same as CineForm)
Fixed audio levels are not behaving and persisting when using Undo/Redo
Fixed Video Tools (Scopes) not appearing correctly
Fixed inconsistent naming for RGB CineForm exports
Fixed issues where the effect parameter sliders can stop working
Fixed potential crash jumping between effect keyframes
Fixed Fix RGBA->RGB conversion on export (However, colour differences still exist between Lwks and Resolve for CineForm RGB exports)
Fixed the 'fullscreen window' setting not being correctly restored when restarting the app (Windows)
Fixed potential crash exiting the application (macOS)


We have updated the installers for 2025.1 with revision 149248.

This new build includes several important fixes. The full list of changes can be seen below:
Added ability to right click and remove effects from multiple selected segments
Added a message which informs the user if any effects templates fail to load
Improved the perpetual license message and moved it to a green hint panel under the licensing panel
Fixed the drop-down licensing panel showing no license details on it
Fixed potential hang/crash when stopping playback on a section containing and EQ audio effect
Fixed stability issues specific to NVIDIA graphics cards when toggling fullscreen output
Fixed situations where the application window can end up fixed and the wrong size with no ability to change it (macOS)
Fixed 'fullscreen window' setting not being correctly restored when restarting the app (Windows)


We have updated the installers for 2025.1 with revision 149111.

This new build includes several important fixes. The full list of changes can be seen below:
Added timeline behaviour setting: "Rejoin when clicking away from cuts" for enabling/disabling the new trim behaviour
Improved perpetual license message that appears when license is only valid for previous versions of the application
Fixed Reverb audio effect not being rendered into the exported file successfully
Fixed audio waveform disappearing after trimming audio next to a crossfade
Fixed crash importing some TIFF media samples
Fixed audio cutting off in exported file when continuing to edit the sequence being exported
Fixed upgraded perpetual licenses showing as 2024.1 instead of 2025.1


We are extremely pleased to announce that the next major release of Lightworks 2025.1 (renamed from 2024.1) revision 148287 is now available to DOWNLOAD

This new version includes some extremely impressive new features:
Reworked video play engine
Export Improvements
Effects Improvements
Linux Snap and Flatpak Installers
User Interface Improvements
And much more!
It is strongly recommended that you backup your project folder before installing any new version of Lightworks. This new version is available to all customers (Free, Create and Pro) If you have a Perpetual license, please read below.


Lightworks Create/Pro Perpetual Customers

This new version is a major release version (2023.x->2025.x) this means customers with Lightworks Create/Pro Perpetual licenses from version 11, 12, 14/2020/2021/2022/2023 will not have access to the new Create/Pro features in this new version without a license upgrade.

To upgrade your Lightworks Create/Pro Perpetual license, visit: https://app.lwks.com/myproducts/perpetual Here you will see your Lightworks Create/Pro Perpetual license and an Upgrade button.

If you experience any issues with licensing and upgrading to the latest version please fill in the Report A Problem form.


NewBlue Packages:

We continue our partnership with NewBlue and these added plugins will continue to work with this latest version:

Lightworks Free

Includes NewBlue Transitions with all Free licenses (Windows and Mac only) The Transitions plugin can be downloaded from here: https://app.lwks.com/downloads/thirdParty Once downloaded and installed you will be able to run up Lightworks and add Transitions from the Effects panel under ‘Plugins’

Lightworks Create

Includes both the NewBlue Transitions above and the NewBlue Titler Pro plugins (Windows and Mac only) with all Create licenses at no extra cost. These plugins can be downloaded from here: https://app.lwks.com/downloads/thirdParty Once downloaded and installed you should be able to run up Lightworks and add these from the Effects panel under ‘Plugins’

Lightworks Pro

We now include NewBlue Transitions, NewBlue Titler Pro and NewBlue Essentials plugins (Windows and Mac only) with all Pro licenses at no extra cost. These plugins can be downloaded from here: https://app.lwks.com/downloads/thirdParty Once downloaded and installed you should be able to run up Lightworks and add these from the Effects panel under ‘Plugins’

TotalFX

This additional plugin package is an optional extra (Windows and Mac only) that can be added when purchasing a Lightworks Pro license (Monthly, Yearly or Perpetual) After successful purchase the TotalFX activation code will be added to the https://app.lwks.com/myproducts page and the installer can be downloaded from: https://app.lwks.com/downloads/thirdParty
Fixed cloud sign out message hiding the perpetual license message in newer versions
Fixed issues with application window sizing
Fixed potential stability issues using the fullscreen feature
Fixed logo duplicating across the screen on the project browser
Fixed crashing with fullscreen output (macOS)
Fixed crash using fullscreen display with Scopes enabled (macOS)


We have updated the installers for 2025.1 with revision 149111.

This new build includes several important fixes. The full list of changes can be seen below:
Added timeline behaviour setting: "Rejoin when clicking away from cuts" for enabling/disabling the new trim behaviour
Improved perpetual license message that appears when license is only valid for previous versions of the application
Fixed Reverb audio effect not being rendered into the exported file successfully
Fixed audio waveform disappearing after trimming audio next to a crossfade
Fixed crash importing some TIFF media samples
Fixed audio cutting off in exported file when continuing to edit the sequence being exported
Fixed upgraded perpetual licenses showing as 2024.1 instead of 2025.1
Fixed cloud sign out message hiding the perpetual license message in newer versions
Fixed issues with application window sizing
Fixed potential stability issues using the fullscreen feature
Fixed logo duplicating across the screen on the project browser
Fixed crashing with fullscreen output (macOS)
Fixed crash using fullscreen display with Scopes enabled (macOS)


We have updated the installers for 2023.2 with revision 147988.

This new build includes several important fixes. The full list of changes can be seen below:
Fixed YouTube http2 upload failures
Fixed background renders not resuming after stopping playback
Fixed potential hang when exiting the application
Fixed image browser panel not appearing until mouse is moved (Mac)
Added support for the AMD GPU encoder (Linux)


We have updated the installers for 2023.2 with revision 147664.

This new build includes several important fixes. The full list of changes can be seen below:
Fixed occasional crash opening sequences
Fixed Assistant applications rendering not working
Fixed potential crash on image import with image keys
Fixed dependency issues on Ubuntu 20.04 with libgtk3-0 or libglib2-0


We have updated the installers for 2023.2 with revision 147500.

This new build includes several important fixes. The full list of changes can be seen below:
Added jackd2 requirement instead of jack (Linux)
Fixed very occasional crash rendering Transform effect thumbnails
Fixed crash browsing images for image key effect
Fixed the key assignments for 'Use next/previous alternate clip' not working as expected


We have updated the installers for 2023.2 with revision 146752.

This new build includes some improvements for issues reported recently. The full list of changes can be seen below:
Reinstated the config.dat entry to avoid potential failure starting the application (disable_audio_plugin_scan config)
Allowed 720p export at 30fps which previously only allowed 29.97fps for MOV/AVI
Fixed hang on project entry (when the effects palette is visible AND the Recent/Current bin is open)
Fixed image sequences from Sony RAW Viewer being detected as still images
Fixed issue with OAuth issues for pCloud integration


We have updated the installers for 2023.2 with revision 146471.

This new build includes support for incoming Google OAuth changes and fixes a couple of regressions. The full list of changes can be seen below:
Added support for Google Oauth granular consent (due June 17th 2024)
Fixed issue with some codecs not freeing system memory correctly
Fixed MTS and M2T files not decoding
Fixed issue with NVME hard disks not being identified correctly with licensing (Linux)
Fixed issue with missing lwd dependency causing issues with H.265 encode/decode (Linux)


We have updated the installers for 2023.2 with revision 146240.

The only change in this latest build is to improve how we handle media files that have been imported but are now causing stability issues when entering the project.

This works the same as the existing Import function, where media that causes instability issues is quarantined to allow the Import panel to be re-opened and avoid the problematic file unless clicked on.

Files that become unstable within a project preventing project entry will now be quarantined showing a '?' as the thumbnail image, preventing the file from being analysed. Clicking on the thumbnail image of a quarantined file will cause it to be re-analysed (as it does on the Import panel) and may become unstable again resulting in the file being quarantined again. If a file causes repeated instability, please fill in the report a problem page.

Please do update to this latest version as soon as you can: https://app.lwks.com/downloads/lightworks


We have updated the installers for 2023.2 with revision 146025.

This new build includes support for Ubuntu 24.04 along with adding in the ability to include Overlays for Free/Create users. The full list of changes can be seen below:
Added support for Ubuntu 24.04
Avoided showing video metadata for audio-only clips
Removed on-viewer controls for the Zoom effect as it can be confusing when you can't see the preview in the settings window
Enabled Subtitles/BITC 'Overlays' option to the 'MP4 (H.264)' export option for Free/Create
Fixed crash decoding CinemaDNG RAW files that do not contain a thumbnail
Fixed Apple ProRes 4444 Interlaced exporting without video


We have updated the installers for 2023.2 with revision 145674.

This new build includes important fixes to issues that have been raised recently along with addressing a long standing issue of keyboard shortcuts being lost after starting the application. The full list of changes can be seen below:
Removed Epidemic Sound API integration library
Fixed empty/bogus sequences being created when making syncs from a bin
Fixed missing keyboard shortcut assignments when pressing a key during application start
Fixed crashing when using multiple auto effects of the same type
Fixed crash searching for Fonts if the first search result appears after the recently used fonts (ie. the one after the dotted line)
Fixed the timeline effects submenu showing 'DVE' instead of 'Transform'


We have updated the installers for 2023.2 with revision 145381.

This new build includes important fixes to issues that have been raised recently. The full list of changes can be seen below:
Added keyframe interval of 1/4 frame rate to 8x frame rate, default is the same as frame rate
Added hint when dragging/dropping files to import
Improved assumptions about which is the master sync track
Improved licensing when a system has NO fixed disks now uses removable ones
Fixed potential crash if shutting down during startup
Fixed potential crash deleting a cue marker
Fixed potential crash importing multiple files at the same time
Fixed keyframe setting not being applied for H.264 exports
Fixed crash importing some .AVI sample files


We have updated the installers for 2023.2 with revision 145091.

This new build includes important fixes to issues that have been raised recently. The full list of changes can be seen below:
Prevented possible crash revealing media-files for a clip
Fixed content manager scroll bar not appearing correctly at the bottom of the panel when expanding a Group
Fixed crash saving new UI settings as a new preset on the appearance panel
Fixed crash enabling test outputs with no hardware resource
Fixed default column width for timecodes in list view bins
Fixed potential crash with Epidemic Sound using Free license
Fixed crash making a multi-layer multicam sequence
Fixed potential crash deleting assets
Fixed potential crash exporting to YouTube
Fixed potential crash using the Effect Masks
Fixed crash attempting to enter a project that's been deleted
Fixed potential crash (recursion) with Zoom Effect changing y position
Fixed missing progress reporting initially when importing files via Drag/Drop


We have updated the installers for 2023.2 with revision 144936.

This new build includes important fixes to issues that have been raised recently. The full list of changes can be seen below:
Fixed R3D files not compounding into a single clip correctly when using 'Copy local' import option
Fixed incorrect performance behaviour with Blackmagic hardware I/O
Fixed potential crash entering a project or displaying Filters



We have updated the installers for 2023.2 with revision 144885.

This new build includes several important fixes to issues that have been raised recently. The full list of changes can be seen below:
Fixed potential crash trimming effects with keyframes
Fixed split RED R3D files not being compounded into a single clip correctly
Fixed hang clicking undo after adding stereo track pair of audio tracks with BITC enabled
Fixed Ctrl+X not always working as expected
Fixed potential crash accessing right click node menu on the Effects routing panel
Fixed project filters showing the incorrect contents for the old style layout (Fixed layout only)
Fixed delay on Blackmagic I/O output compared to the sequence viewer
Fixed AVID DNxHD .MOV 10 bit not being detected and failing to decode
Fixed keyframes not working on the Curves tab of the Colour Correction effect
Fixed incorrect behaviour when performing an 'undo' in a text-entry field
Fixed crash after setting filter visibility to 'Hidden'
Fixed possible crash when overly demanding media is played (ie, 4k 60fps)
Fixed crash removing gaps from a sequence with no enabled tracks
Fixed possible crash with pond5 library on network error
Fixed missing H.265 encoder not being available on Apple M models when running Sonoma macOS 14
Fixed crash with Matrox MX02 I/O hardware (Windows)
Fixed Drag/Drop does not completing correctly (Linux)


We have updated the installers for 2023.2 with revision 144635.

This new build includes the ability to export to MKV (FFV1) and several other improvements. The full list of changes can be seen below:
Added FFV1 lossless codec encoding (Lightworks Pro Only)
Added setting to allow synchronising video monitor display with audio
Added ability to right click a Subclip and choose: 'Media > Reveal'
Changed MP4 (H.264) export (Free/Create) default bit depth from 10-bit to 8-bit for compatibility with Media Player
Added 'Bit depth' option to the Export panel
The last bit depth setting is now recalled
Changed the default behaviour when adding audio tracks to always add after the existing tracks
Removed link to old 'Whatsnew' page from the project hint popup
Removed invalid 50i export option for Apple ProRes, Cineform when sequence format is 50P
Image sequence export logs now show the image bit depth
Disabled DPX 10-bit export pending a fix
Fixed some third-party sample MP4 23.98fps importing and showing as 24fps
Fixed hidden sequence in shared projects when resizing the left hand side of the sequence viewer
Fixed the "Add Stereo Pair" function not making a true stereo pair according to the audio mixer panel
Fixed JP2 exports showing as individual frames when browsing to them on the Import panel
Fixed Marks not being cleared after adding a Transition/Crossfade (when specifying 'Use marks')
Fixed possible crash when closing the fullscreen preview (by double-clicking)
Fixed crash grouping tracks on an audio clip during playback
Fixed default clip timeline size (Flexible layout)
Fixed display of single pixel high GIF thumbnails
Fixed audio crackling playing output tests
Fixed long audio latency issues as reported on the Forum
Fixed potential issue where newly created projects can show the incorrect layout
Fixed image sequences exported using 'Create folder' not being detected on re-import
Fixed compression settings for JPEG, TIFF and PNG image sequence export
Fixed inability to move a BITC label (Fixed layout only)
Fixed incorrect colour on AVID DNxHR sample
Fixed reading of single frame GIFs
Fixed display of FLAC cover art


We have updated the installers for 2023.2 with revision 144289.

This new build includes several improvements recently reported along with the ability to add a stereo pair of tracks without the additional opening of another panel. The full list of changes can be seen below:
Added ability to a add a stereo-pair of audio tracks without having to open the 'Add multiple..' panel
Fixed the colours of FX nodes on the routing panel not matching their associated timeline segment
Fixed missing folder names on cloud storage locations when set to Tiles view
Fixed black thumbnails showing on Dropbox cloud storage locations
Fixed missing audio clip gain widget when loading a clip into a source viewer after a sequence
Fixed DPX files not being visible on the Import panel
Fixed possible crash when grouping sequence tracks
Fixed some animated GIFs not playing correctly
Fixed incorrect keyframing issues with the Zoom effect
When no parameters are keyframed, the zoomed area stays completely within the image (No black/off screen)
When 1+ parameters are keyframed, the zoomed area is allowed to go off the image
Fixed Mask Centre parameters not always having X/Y suffixes
Fixed missing Wipe patterns on the Effects panel in Flexible layout
Fixed audio track selections no longer overriding Mute/Solo status when exporting
Fixed Marks being removed when using making an 'Empty cut'
Fixed 'Location' text being covered when adding a stereo pair of tracks on the Add multiple tracks panel
Fixed incorrect name appearing when adding multiple audio tracks with a custom name
Fixed incorrect Epidemic Sound clip behaviour when switching from the Pro to a Free license
Fixed missing audio devices on the voice over record panel (macOS)
Fixed hang moving the mouse cursor over the viewer after adding a 3D Transform effect (macOS/Linux)


We have updated the installers for 2023.2 with revision 144115.

This new build now includes improvements to choosing which audio device to use on Linux systems within the System Settings panel and fixes some important issues that have been raised. The full list of changes can be seen below:
Switched to LWKS fork of Community Effects on GitHub
Fixed issues with interlaced ProRes/DNxHD encoded files
Fixed issue with text overlapping thumbnail images on the Import panel
Fixed sequence timeline not showing clips Replaced/Inserted from the Clipboard
Fixed Racks from opening off the top of the available interface (Flexible layout)
Fixed the Export panel from opening off the top of the available interface
Fixed tiles in multicam bins linking to the record sequence incorrectly
Fixed 59.94 fps MP4 (H.265) exports from re-importing as 47.95 fps
Fixed MP4 always showing at 8-bit Bit Depth in the Bin metadata
Fixed 'Mark to end of segment' keyboard assignment not working
Fixed crash when importing invalid EDLs
Fixed incorrect image metadata on still image imports
Fixed incorrect zoomed image appearing when transitioning between two still images
Fixed crash exiting a project after minimising a Bin (Flexible layout)
Fixed hang if the project.png is missing
Fixed potential crash using drag and drop
Fixed occasional crash closing FFMPEG audio codec
Fixed issues with the shared project feature
Fixed issues with some clips being truncated in AAF imports
Fixed incorrect frame rate being assigned when making a sequence from a clip selection
Fixed interchange files failing to import when they aren't the first item shown on the import panel
Fixed hang with a sequence that consists of many short audio segments and the System CPU count is low
Fixed Insert point on keyframe graphs not showing both handles
Fixed crop within the keyframe graphs not showing the correct shape
Fixed hang exiting the application while waveforms are being drawn


We have updated the installers for 2023.2 with revision 143744.

This new build now has helpful links on the hints popups that link to the new online Knowledge Base and even includes the ability to change the colour on Bins/Groups as well as adding in Notes metadata! The full list of changes can be seen below:

This latest revision includes several important fixes for 2023.2:
Added ability to set Bin and Group colours with Notes metadata
Added 'Help!' links to the green hint popups that link to the Knowledge Base
Added export bit rate settings to the export log for H.264/H.265/AV1 exports
Improved performance with Blackmagic hardware I/O devices
Removed the dialog regarding 8/10-bit quality when exporting interchange formats
Fixed reading of Sony MXF from Venice cameras
Fixed switch from Audio tab to the Edit tab when applying a crossfade on the Audio page
Fixed potential hang/crash after system sleeps
Fixed odd behaviour with keyframe graph tangents
Fixed potential crash switching rooms (Flexible layout)
Fixed masks wireframes not matching video area when Letterboxing is enabled
Fixed crash on ColourPicker with no Alpha (e.g. custom effect)
Fixed scrolling speed when using macOS trackpads to scroll up and down
Fixed potential hang/crash after Windows system sleeps


We have updated the installers for 2023.2 with revision 143546.

This new build now has helpful links on the hints popups that link to the new online Knowledge Base and even includes the ability to change the colour on Bins/Groups as well as adding in Notes metadata! The full list of changes can be seen below:

This latest revision includes several important fixes for 2023.2:
Added ability to set Bin and Group colours with Notes metadata
Added 'Help!' links to the green hint popups that link to the Knowledge Base
Added export bit rate settings to the export log for H.264/H.265/AV1 exports
Improved performance with Blackmagic hardware I/O devices
Removed the dialog regarding 8/10-bit quality when exporting interchange formats
Fixed reading of Sony MXF from Venice cameras
Fixed switch from Audio tab to the Edit tab when applying a crossfade on the Audio page
Fixed potential hang/crash after system sleeps
Fixed odd behaviour with keyframe graph tangents
Fixed potential crash switching rooms (Flexible layout)
Fixed masks wireframes not matching video area when Letterboxing is enabled
Fixed crash on ColourPicker with no Alpha (e.g. custom effect)
Fixed scrolling speed when using macOS trackpads to scroll up and down
Fixed potential hang/crash after Windows system sleeps


We have updated the installers for 2023.2 with revision 143546. This latest revision includes several important fixes for 2023.2:

Added extra track safety when dragging and dropping to the timeline
Improved safety for image effects when copying a clipped region to a new surface
Improved safety uploading Subtitles to YouTube
Improved message on startup regarding macOS Sonoma compatibility with 14.2 (macOS)
Fixed XML exports not importing to Adobe Premiere and automatically relinking media (macOS/Linux)
Fixed missing frames in VP9 MOV files from iPhone Pro
Fixed view-ability of the 'Upgrade' chart when using smaller screen resolutions
Fixed inability to cut and paste paths to change the current import folder on the Import panel
Fixed potential crash recursion with the Zoom effect
Fixed MP4 file importing with '0' length duration
Fixed some MP3 file failing to playback
Fixed missing Wipe patterns
Fixed missing CIE scope and vectorscope backgrounds
Fixed some MKV files withe PCM audio playing as noise
Fixed issues with Epidemic Sound media incorrectly showing 'Upgrade' with Create/Pro license enabled
Fixed PNG files masquerading as JPEG not being read on Windows


We have updated the installers for 2023.2 with revision 143376. This latest revision includes several important fixes for 2023.2:

Fixed incorrect license behaviour with external hardware I/O
Fixed not all AVID DNxHD proxy media files being deleted correctly
Fixed crash clicking the fullscreen-preview timestrip
Fixed crash clicking when selecting a file for image-key
Fixed crash revealing the Destroy Items panel
Fixed possible crash when performing editing operations that involve the clipboard
Fixed dummy audio being selected on new installs instead of the default audio device
Fixed Long duration MKV files taking a very long time to load and could cause a hang when playing
Fixed issue with some Motion JPEG images not working
Fixed possible crash when deleting tracks
Fixed thread safety flushing SurfaceCache/TextureCache (Windows)
Fixed crash rendering Cineform, ProRes on the sequence timeline (Linux)


We have updated the Lightworks installers for 2023.2 with revision 143100 after a short Maintenance Beta cycle. This latest revision includes several important fixes and improvements over the recent release installers, the full list can be seen below:

Added keyboard shortcut command 'VFX keyframes' for revealing the video keyframes panel (assigned to SHIFT+F6 by default)
Added remaining drive space on media locations to the error.log
Added 'Columns' option to the View Commands settings panels on Bins
Improved playback stuttering on some MKV sample files
Improved message when creating a proxy and the the space available is less than the size of the file
Improved JPEG support at OS level (macOS)
Allowed playback when no audio devices are present on the system
Removed the shared-media deletion dialogue popup message
Updated export menu format restrictions on Compression/Format change
Fixed media remaining offline when restoring a Lightworks archive IF the archive was first restored that did not contain media
Fixed missing 'Centred' option when adding a crossfade between two still images IF a second video track is present
Fixed Effect parameter value display showing decimals rather than a percentage
Fixed crash dragging a file over the Lightworks window when designing a new layout
Fixed crash exiting the application when the popup cue panel is visible
Fixed potential crash closing the import panel
Fixed crash reading some 16bit PNG sample files
Fixed potential crash opening DV MXF (and others)
Fixed 'Overlays' option on the Export panel not updating after adding Subtitles/BITC to the sequence
Fixed potential crash reverting to legacy scopes because CL compilation fails with Intel graphics (macOS)
Fixed inability to drag bin column names up/down (immediately after enabling a column)
Fixed MKV PCM audio files only playing a short burst of the audio
Fixed disk read errors messages occurring in the error.log when reading/playing AAC audio within MKV files
Fixed crash clicking 'Add' on the Assistant Applications panel
Fixed potential crash shutting down the application during startup
Fixed crash deleting segments when the clipboard has a different frame-rate to the sequence
Fixed error.log warnings when trimming sequences (that are not 24fps and have segments that are a single frame in duration)


We have updated the installers for 2023.2 with revision 142600.

This latest revision includes several important fixes over the initial release of 2023.2. Primarily the performance issue reported by users when playing/scrubbing/opening some media formats:
Added temporary workaround for macOS 14.0 (Sonoma) issue. Warning: Performance will be slow on macOS 14.0
Added check for running out of GPU memory errors
Added better stability for future effect mask improvements
Improved the audio bitrate on MP4 (H.265/AV1) exports to match YouTube recommendations
Moved audio plugin scanning from application startup
Audio plugin scanning can now be initiated from the Effects->Plugins settings panel (Lightworks Pro Only)
Added new scanning panel to be more in line with the user interface
Added new confirmation panel about what plugins have been scanned and available
Fixed crash when overwriting an export preset with the same name
Fixed crash when changing timeline appearance settings
Fixed slow decoding of MJPG/I-frame formats
Fixed crash decoding CR2 sample file
Fixed display of Sony S22 RAW images
Fixed missing icons on the sequence timeline in Flexible layout when dragging a sequence into a source viewer
Fixed potential crash scanning for audio plugins
Fixed slow loading/opening of MP4 files compared to 2023.1
Fixed potential crash clicking Undo with the Zoom effect
Fixed incorrect frames displayed for animation media encoded using H.264
Fixed scrolling when using the mouse wheel on the FX/Audio FX panels
Fixed crash on device notification from Windows


We have updated the installers for 2023.1 with revision 142124 whilst we are slightly delayed on the release of 2023.2.

This latest revision includes a fix for the issue reported here and some others mentioned below:
Fixed information not being shown in the Task Log until export completes
Increased default stack size by 50% (for Melodyne audio plugins on Windows)
Fixed crash with some Quicktime files
Fixed incorrect playback of some MP4 samples


We have updated the installers for 2023.1 with revision 141770 whilst we are slightly delayed on the release of 2023.2.

This latest revision includes several important fixes:
Included our own OpenCL ICD loader which should help with OpenCL failures on startup
Reduced the minimum bitrate for YouTube uploads to avoid unnecessarily large file sizes
Now retain/log vendor for non ATI/Nvidia graphics drivers
Fixed Fixed potential crash switching audio device whilst Lightworks is running
Fixed some images becoming distorted when placed in the sequence timeline
Fixed R3D planar 16 bit decode


We have updated the installers for 2023.1 with revision 141158. This latest revision includes several important fixes:

Fixed crash creating proxies for media with dimensions of 0x0 (could be created in older versions)
Fixed Bin Groups that are dragged to the desktop looking incorrect (Flexible layout)
Fixed potential crash using the audio mixer scroll bar on sequences with lots of audio tracks
Fixed potential crash switching audio device whilst Lightworks is running (Windows)
Fixed potential crash clicking on the Effects page/tab on the Titles panel
Fixed potential crash dragging into Lightworks whilst also switching applications
Fixed Apple ProRes 4444 exports at 8-bit showing as 4:2:2 subsampling in Media-info
Fixed potential crash performing an undo/redo
Fixed logging for OpenCL buffer sharing
Fixed crash when image fails to load


We have updated the installers for 2023.1 with revision 141015. This latest revision includes several important fixes:

Added config entry: "disable_video_plugin_scan" to match "disable_audio_plugin_scan"
Added a configurable minimum image-sequence length (min_image_sequence_len)
Fixed incorrect playback on MKV files containing PCM audio
Fixed crash on playback with AVI files from Source FrameMaker
Fixed crash when previously applied plugin is no longer installed
Fixed decoding on some H.264 4K MOV files
Fixed another crash with GIF files
Fixed potential crash clicking on the Effects page/tab on the Titles panel
Fixed potential crash toggling the fullscreen display output on startup
Fixed potential crash dragging and dropping into the timeline
Fixed potential crash running the GPU tests
Fixed potential crash after adding a custom format
Added extra safety opening a device for Voiceover (Windows)
Improved performance on systems with low memory (Windows)
Fixed text and menu items not appearing correctly on newer Linux distros


We have updated the installers for 2023.1 with revision 140859. This latest revision includes several important fixes:

Added support for the undo keyboard shortcut to be used to undo an unwanted mask point
Added CMD functionality on Mac in place of CTRL on to lock audio nodes from being moved on the X/Y
Updated Ubuntu installers to include required dependencies (libvdpau1, ocl-icd-libopencl1 and libva-drm2)
The 'Detect image sequences' setting is now off by default on new installations
Fixed potential crash pressing Play on a clip (further improvements)
Fixed potential issue accessing the Windows clipboard
Fixed issues with reading CanonXF media card structures
Fixed issues with reading/playing image sequences (must contain the same number of digits)
Fixed potential crash importing media with long filenames
Fixed effect thumbnail previews failing to load, or showing black
Fixed DVE on a mixed alpha layer losing the alpha when a Mask is used
Fixed Blend on a mixed alpha layer losing the alpha when a Mask is used
Fixed issues with opening web browsers from within the application (Linux)
Fixed issues revealing local media files media and project locations (Linux)


We have updated the installers for 2023.1 with revision 140639. This latest revision includes several important fixes:

Fixed issues with Canon XF MXF media not playing correctly or being able to generate proxies
Fixed crash starting looped play if nothing has focus (usually on entering the project)
Fixed incorrect image display with some Canon MXF interlaced media
Fixed filename extension no longer being shown on the Import panel
Fixed issue with floating tiles persisting in Fixed layout
Fixed potential crash restoring Audio Mixer panel state
Fixed potential crash selecting a folder to import on the Image Key effect
Fixed potential buffer overrun scanning Quicktime files for FOURCC
Fixed potential crash when dragging and dropping images into a Bin
Fixed potential crash using Undo with the FX panel open
Fixed potential crash drawing effect thumbnails
Fixed potential buffer overrun crash reading GIFs
Fixed potential crash revealing media files (Windows)
Fixed occasional crash in D3D (Windows)


New Features and Fixes in Version 2023.1

This section summarizes the fixes, enhancements, and features that have been implemented in this
release of Lightworks.
Cross Platform New Features and Fixes
This section describes the cross-platform new features and fixes contained in this release.
New Features:
• Added HDR workflows
o HDR format is now detected from the media files (MOV/MXF/MP4)
o HDR colour space information is now available to view for HDR media in Bins and on the Metadata
panel
o Bit Depth of the video is now available to view for media in Bins and on the Metadata panel
o Added the ability to change the 'Playback colour space' on a sequence (Lightworks Pro Only), for
Lightworks Free and Lightworks Create the SDR colour spaces can be selected.
o Added the ability to change the 'Colour space' option on the Export panel (Lightworks Pro Only)
in this version the option is locked to the current colour space, i.e for export of a sequence it follows the
'Playback colour space’.
o Added the ability to change the 'Monitor Colour space' option on the Video->Output tab of the project
card (limited to Default and rec709 currently)
‘Default’ option sends native video colour space (SDR or HDR) to be interpreted by the display. ‘Rec 709’
option applies a viewing conversion from HDR to SDR.
o The sequence timeline will allow mixed HDR/SDR formats for the purpose of review
o HDR format is signalled in the exported media files (Lightworks Pro Only)
o Updated the CIE scope to display the sequence colour spaces above rec709 for HDR workflows
(Lightworks Pro Only)
o Added “Apply HDR transforms” setting on the Video->Output tab of the project card. This controls if
automatic colour management is active or not
o Added Rec 2020, P3 Display (HDR), P3 DCI (HDR), HLG (HDR), and PQ (HDR) options to the 'Monitor
colour space' output setting
• Added the ability to draw/create Masks: Ellipse, Square or Complex Shape (user defined) to various effect
categories:
o DVE effects category: All
o Colour effects category: All
o Stylise effects category: All
o Key effects category: Lumakey and Chromakey
o Matte effects category: 2D Shape and Colour/Corner Gradient
o Mix effects category: Blend, Dissolve, Luma Wipe and Masked Blend
o Added Inside/Outside Colour Correction effect, allowing two separate tabs for Inside (the mask) and
Outside (the mask)
o Added the ability to keyframe Effect Masks
o Added new 'Speech Bubble' effect under the Matte effects category
o Added ability to replace a colour effect and preserve the mask shape (if created)
• Added the ability to create and define custom layout templates (Fixed Layout Only)
o Added new EDIT tab layout to expose more features (Fixed layout only)
o Added the ability to enable/disable visible items on panels by clicking the '+' icon
o Added the ability to reset the view back to the default by right clicking the tab header
o Added ability to reorganise the tabs at the top of the Fixed layout
o Added the ability to switch between Tiles or List view for Effects (Fixed Layout Only. Flexible coming
soon)
o Added the ability to switch between Tiles or List view for Transitions (Fixed Layout Only. Flexible
coming soon)
• Added vertical resizable scrollbar to effect parameter graphs
• Added 'Graph height' slider to the effects panel menu (ctrl + mouse-wheel still supported)
• Added Graphs for grouped effect parameters to be correctly aligned with non-grouped parameters
• Added various streamlined user-interface changes throughout the application
• Added new Lightworks logo on the project browser
• Added fullscreen playback icon to sequence/source viewers
• Added 'Toggle auto-track sync' icon to the sequence timeline
• Added 'Toggle audio levels editing' icon to the sequence timeline
• Added the ability to import OpenEXR media
• Added the ability to export to OpenEXR media (Lightworks Pro Only)
• Added improved ability to drag and drop into the application, allowing drop to a viewer, bin or timeline
• Added improved import panel making more options and libraries visible by default
• Added ability to always restore the default media location if one is not present
• Added eight new keyboard shortcut assignments, 'Add favourite 1-8' Bound to ALT F1-F8 by default for adding
Favourite Effects
• Added the ability to save audio plugin effects as Favourites
• Added Steinberg Halion SE to the audio plugin blacklist
• Added ability to open sequences as sources on the new EDIT layout (Fixed layout only)
• Added Mask parameters to the keyframe graph (apart from curve point keyframes)
• Added the 'Assemble' tab by default (Fixed layout only)
• Added video colour space metadata for MXF export (AVID DNxHD, DVCPRO and DV)
• Added option to allow the mask wireframe to be visible when scrubbing the sequence timeline
• Added improvements to the In/Out Colour Correction effect
• Added 'Auto follow' option for CIE scope Display
• Added the ability to add the Export panel within the new fixed layouts
• Added Faster forward and Rewind keyboard assignments: 2000%, 3000%, -2000%, -3000%
• Added support for LUTs with negative values
• Added 10-bit/8-bit encoding option for H.264/MP4 export (Lightworks Pro Only)
• Added additional support for more animated GIFs
• Added Noise Gate effect (Lightworks Create and Pro Only)
• Added Limiter effect (Lightworks Create and Pro Only)
• Added ability to drag Effects to the routing tab (Fixed layout)
• Added 'Optimise for streaming' option to H.264 export option (Lightworks Pro Only)
• Added 'Keyframe interval' option to H.264 export option (Lightworks Pro Only)
• Added an option to override the automatic sequence format when creating a sequence
• Added overlay reporting the missing LUT when encountered
• Added ability to include a custom thumbnail image to upload along with the YouTube upload option (2mb max
JPEG/PNG only)
• Added ability to change the colour space metadata for a clip in the bin, allows overriding of the original values
supplied in the media file
• Added ability to filter/search the LUTs list
• Added tooltip to the 'Keyframe' setting on the H.264/MP4 export option
• Added 'Half' and 'Quarter' resolution sizes for proxies
• Added in "Lock centre" toggle for Masks/2D curves
• Added ability to set the Black/White image colour settings from the sequence
• Added ability to install 'Community Effects' files directly to the application from the Effects settings panel
• Added search functionality to the Font selection list
• Added ability to export an individual frame on Image Sequence export (Lightworks Pro Only)
• Added Tasks log file to all Lightworks.archive exports
• Added in 16-bit options for PNG and TIFF image sequence exports
• Added warnings when creating a project backup and some media is missing
• Added 'Downloads' to Shortcut places on the import panel
• Added support for Apple ProRes HDR exports (Apple Certified)
• Added ability to add tangent curves when adding Mask points using press+drag
• Added further improvements to the GOP length on H.264 exports to improve quality
• Added missing Apple ProRes DCI 4K (4096x2160) on the export menu
• Added text to the community effects panel if an internet connection problem is detected
• Updated the messages shown on the 'Activate license(s)' panel
• Provided panels/components for Clips/Sequences/etc (Fixed Layout Only)
• Improved 'Close gap' to respect 'Auto Track Sync' setting
• Improved the default quality on YouTube uploads
• Improved the 'Reconfigure' option to be available in each layout
• Disabled animated GIFs being detected as image sequences
• Disabled ability to click the user icon on the license panel
• Preserved redundant cuts in AAF/XML/OMF imports rather than remove them
• Removed Scale X and Scale Y for Ellipses and Rectangles
• Removed the 'Keyframe shape' toggle button for ellipses and rectangles and show individual param keyframing
toggles
• Removed invalid and non-functional options from the 'File type' list on Image Sequence export
• Reinstated the pull up metadata panels for clips and sequences
• Changed 'Keyframe shape' toggle name for Curves to 'Keyframe curve points' (this only affects the non-visible
curve point and tangents params on the panel)
• Changed mask parameters to appear (greyed out) whilst drawing/creating the shape
• Prevented Epidemic Sound media from being imported using the 'Create link' option
• Prevented Opus audio from attempting to play back (now silence)
• Newly created projects now use the last chosen bin column layout by default
Fixes:
• Fixed effective envelope not updating after linearizing a segment
• Fixed Alt+drag to copy VFX
• Fixed inability to import .SRT files into the application
• Fixed logs not being received/copied successfully between projects
• Fixed potential crash exporting to WAV with a 'Compressor' Effect added to a clip
• Fixed Reference AAF importing with clips in the correct position within the sequence but the wrong part of the
clip being used
• Fixed issue with MP3 files not importing correctly
• Fixed issue with white noise being produced on embedded AAF exports
• Fixed performance issues with audio plugins on the sequence
• Fixed issue with archive restores not restoring all the media correctly
• Fixed incorrect gap appearing when dragging a clip to the end of a sequence and dropping
• Fixed potential crash with Waves audio plugins
• Fixed issues with logs not updating correctly when copying between projects
• Fixed .psd and other file types not importing
• Fixed XDCAM EX files not playing correctly
• Fixed potential crash when attempting to edit an image sequence
• Fixed Media link files not being deleted when deleting a project
• Fixed performance issue with badly formed PNG files using up system memory
• Fixed incorrect shape sizes when adjusting using the viewer overlays
• Fixed potential crash changing folders on the import panel
• Fixed spurious messages when reporting errors on export
• Fixed potential crash during export due to audio crossfades
• Fixed potential crash on startup due to ED5s being present in the lobby folder
• Fixed the flag icon not appearing correctly on the timeline of images
• Fixed crash when attempting to show the effects panel for a user effect that's no longer present
• Fixed Bit depth being misreported as 10bit for 8bit
• Fixed image name not appearing correctly on the viewer when changing the name on the timeline (Flexible
layout only)
• Fixed the Out timecode on a ranged Cue being partially obscured (Flexible layout only)
• Fixed In/Out colour FX always being truncated in Flexible layout
• Fixed the recorder playback format influencing the magnification in the player
• Fixed incorrect creation of logs Backup zips
• Fixed incorrect stride with some still images
• Fixed crash reading gifs due to uninitialised data
• Fixed spurious messages when reporting errors on export
• Fixed handling of 8bit DIBs
• Fixed potential crash exiting the project from fixed layout
• Fixed undo icon being obscured by the voice over icon when not using the default scale
• Prevented showing image-key position on the viewer if the user hasn't chosen an image yet
• Fixed crash entering the project after viewing an effect curve and exiting the project
• Fixed curve line on the Curves tab of Selective Colour Corrector not moving correctly
• Fixed issues with Image Key effect and display of still images
• Fixed incorrect view of the graphs panel after adding keyframes
• Fixed Keyframe graph panel jumping about in Flexible layout when clicking with the mouse
• Fixed potential crash opening a project from an earlier version of Lightworks
• Fixed tooltips flickering when mousing over tiles in Flexible layout
• Fixed Pond5 search returning no results
• Fixed DPX image sequences not playing correctly
• Fixed incorrect keyboard shortcuts showing when creating an HTML report
• Fixed another crash when attempting to show the effects panel for a user effect that's no longer present
• Fixed 'Add audio crossfade' keyboard shortcut not reliably inheriting the last-used settings
• Fixed clips with LUTs applied on the sequence being black when restored from a Lightworks Archive
• Fixed acquisition of new refresh token for YouTube uploads
• Fixed broken sequences from 2021.3 that have 3D LUTs applied
• Fixed issues with handling missing 3D LUTs
• Fixed 'Not Imported' text appearing on source viewers when it shouldn't
• Fixed animated GIFs that have a non-black transparent colour
• Fixed Transitions becoming corrupt
• Fixed aspect ratio changing on a clip on playback start/stop
• Fixed missing LUTs no longer causing the sequence to be displayed as black
• Fixed hyperlinks that contain '?' characters does not working when clicking
• Fixed clip LUTs not being restored correctly
• Fixed timeline track enable/disable affecting the content in the exported file
• Fixed audio on proxy being lost if access to the Hi-Res media is not available
• Fixed the list of LUTs not displaying correctly when there are many
• Fixed crash when changing the tab on the Scopes (Video Tools) panel (non-OpenCL only)
• Fixed sequence copies (when an alternate frame-rate is chosen)
• Fixed missing clip name suffix from the source viewer
• Fixed newer style Scopes (Video Tools) not working with newer AMD video drivers
• Fixed potential issue with poor image quality on thumbnail images
• Fixed incorrect colour on Blackmagic BRAW media
• Fixed incorrect text on the product tooltip on the license panel
• Fixed potential crash selecting the date on the search card for the 'Created' criteria
• Fixed last Bin in the list being partially covered by the edge of the table
• Fixed deleted effects not disappearing directly from the Recent category
• Fixed the 'Clips' checkbox always being unticked when revealing the search panel
• Fixed incorrect Cineform metadata preventing MOV exports playing in other applications
• Fixed incorrect tooltips for QC templates (when the description is long)
• Fixed no media locations being added on fresh installs
• Fixed Quicktime animation files with alpha channel having incorrect colours
• Fixed incorrect DVE effects when they span clips that have different aspect ratios
• Fixed The project filter not persisting correctly when switching project spaces
• Fixed incorrect appearance of the standalone video routing panel (Flexible layout)
• Fixed missing viewer settings menu icons (Flexible layout)
• Fixed obscured fullscreen icon on sequence viewers in shared project spaces
• Fixed over sized import clips panel on fresh application installations
• Fixed potential hang exporting a single frame when no marked region is set
• Fixed Bin column presets can not be saved
• Fixed Bin column presets can not be deleted
• Fixed gamma shift after HDR export/import roundtrip
• Fixed codecs list not being sorted by quality level
• Fixed incorrect unjoin indicators for FX tracks
• Fixed RED R3D decode format name
• Fixed potential crash loading a Bin template
• Fixed inability to browser for AAC media on the Import panel
• Fixed media path disappearing after creating a proxy and restarting the application
• Fixed incorrect information showing in the config.log
• Fixed hang scrubbing a value slider on the Parametric EQ audio effect
• Fixed invalid warnings appearing on social media export options when set to PAL/NTSC playback formats
• Fixed sequence playback showing the incorrect image when using 1440x1080 with OFX plugins
• Fixed incorrect image colours on OFX when using 8-Bit GPU Precision only
• Fixed new versions of audio plugins causing the scanner window to appear every time the app is started
• Fixed potential issue on failure to start correctly resulting in the license panel appearing
• Fixed inability to scroll the language menu on the startup wizard
• Fixed poor quality thumbnail images on the Import panel
Windows New Features and Fixes
This section describes the Windows new features and fixes contained in this release.
New Features:
• N/A
Fixes:
• Fixed colour shift issue on the image when using BCC effects and set to higher than 8bit precision
• Fixed Selective Colour Correction effect no longer working at all
• Fixed potential failure to start the application
• Fixed incorrect sequence format being sent to NewBlue TitlerPro resulting in poor quality images
• Fixed OFX plugins with unconnected inputs are not rendered/displayed correctly
Linux New Features and Fixes
This section describes the Linux new features and fixes contained in this release.
New Features:
• N/A
Fixes:
• Fixed Emojis not being rendered correctly
• Fixed German acute key ´ not being recognised within Lightworks
• Fixed newly created ED5s not being saved in the project folder until exiting the project
• Fixed the root folder being inaccessible using the 'Up' button on the import panel
• Fixed timeline being drawn incorrectly when segment thumbnails are enabled
• Fixed missing User Effects category
• Fixed OFX plugins with unconnected inputs are not rendered/displayed correctly
macOS New Features and Fixes
This section describes the macOS new features and fixes contained in this release.
New Features:
• Minimum supported version of Mac is now 10.14 (Mojave)
Fixes:
• Fixed colour shift issue on the image when using BCC effects and set to higher than 8bit precision
• Fixed newly created ED5s not being saved in the project folder until exiting the project
• Fixed the root folder being inaccessible using the 'Up' button on the import panel
• Fixed 'Edge softness' and 'Opacity' not working on the 3D DVE
• Fixed incorrect sequence format being sent to NewBlue TitlerPro resulting in poor quality images
Limitations and Known Problems in Version 2023.1
This section describes the limitations and known problems contained in this release.
Cross Platform
• Audio plugin effects can not be added as 'Favourites'
• Systems that do not support OpenCL will not experience the new Video Tools panel updates
• There is no Effects vendor categorisation in the Video/Audio Effects lists
• Depending on the amount of third party plugins installed on the system, the first startup of this new version may
be slow and consume memory
• H.264 Proxy files will fail to be created from high frame rate media
• Some proxy images may have incorrect black bars surrounding the image
• Prints containing multiple V tracks and DVEs used will not display correctly in a sequence
• DVEs may change position when switching to a different sequence output
• H.264/MP4 exports at 23.98fps show the audio sync is half a frame out
• Freeze frames, in sequences exported to AAF, are ignored in Adobe Premiere (XML works).
• Proxy files are not created for files shorter than one second in length, when set to H.264.
• After removing a media space, with the import panel open, Media may appear offline.
• Some MTS files show pixelation on the start frames.
• The Audio Monitor Delay setting is not accounted for during export.
• AVID DNxHD 10bit encode is not possible.
• There is no support for importing .WMV files.
• Make sure all applications are closed before attempting to install Lightworks.
• Blu-ray VC1 export does not generate a valid file, instead it imports back as Sound only.
• Audio on exported AVCHD files cannot be played by Windows Media Player. The audio is muted.


New Features and Fixes in Version 2022.3

New Features:
• Added integration with IOGates REACT product
o Added ability to connect to IOGates REACT space (requires IOGates account)
o Added ability to add/remove IOGates share links within a project
o Added ability to upload files to share links or spaces
o Added ability to download Proxy/Hi-Res locally to the system
o Added support for two factor authentication
o All real-time updates with no need to refresh
• Added native 'Noise Reducer' effect within the application (Lightworks Create/Pro only)
• Added native Graphic EQ audio effect (Lightworks Create and Pro Only)
• Added native Compressor audio effect (Lightworks Create and Pro Only)
• Added audio effect templates under the "Quick FX" category that combines the Noise Reducer, Compressor and
Graphic EQ
o Voice Enhancer (Useful for enhancing voice recordings)
o Instrument Enhancer (Useful for enhancing instrument recordings)
o Dialog Enhancer (Useful for enhancing dialogue recordings)
o Acoustic Sweetener (Useful for enhancing the acoustics)
o Subtle Sweetener template
• Added Reverb audio effect (Lightworks Create and Pro Only)
• Added ability to loop a section of a clip/sequence
o Added new key assignment command: "Loop" This will cause the current sequence/clip to play in a
loop which is delimited by the marked region (or the current segment if there are no marks)
o Added new key assignment command: "Loop Segment" This will cause the current sequence/clip to
play in a loop which is delimited by current segment (even if there is a marked region)
o The "Loop" key assignment is bound to Ctrl+Space automatically
o You can also instigate looped playback by clicking the play button on the viewer and dragging down
o Audio preview will start automatically when adjusting audio effect parameters
• Added a new audio plugin scanner functionality at startup (Lightworks Pro Only)
o A new Plugin scan dialog panel will be shown, which shows the progress of scanning each individual
plugin
o Audio Plugins will now scan in a separate process so if a plugin fails to scan, Lightworks will still
continue to start
o A "Cancel" button is available on the scan dialog to stop plugins from being scanned at startup
o Any plugins that do fail to load are reported at the end of the scan
• Added enhanced audio plugin parameter panel
o Audio plugins now show the full range for each parameter, and a bespoke parameter widget when
needed
• Added 40 free music tracks for Free/Create/Pro users via the Epidemic Sound library integration
• Added an additional 160 free music tracks for Create/Pro users via the Epidemic Sound library integration
• Added ability to show the remaining activations on the 'Activate license(s)' panel
• Added support for reading JPEG 2000 MXF files (8/10-bit)
• Added the ability to sign out of the application
o License panel has been removed from System Settings and added as a separate section
• Added several improvements to the user interface
• Added .VOB and .MPG containers to the DVD export option (Lightworks Pro Only)
• Added ability to preserve the last search request on the Effects panel when switching categories
• Added abbreviated track names to the VFX/AUDIO tabs
• Added keyboard shortcut entry to enable the Magnifier
• Added 1.001 factor frame rates for custom format creation
• Added playback improvements for Canon UHD H.264 MXF sample file not playing correctly
• Removed Audio Network library from the Libraries section
• Removed video information from tasks logs when exporting to WAV
• Restored 4:3 option to DVD export lists
• Avoided repeatedly logging the same failure messages for OFX plugins
• Avoided closing the batch metadata panel when clicking away from it
• Improved the ability to save keyboard preferences
• Improved the tab styling on the Video Tools panel
• Prevented still images from being read twice
• Prevented the audio scanner from popping open on every startup when disabled plugins are encountered
• Prevented Acon audio plugins from being scanned at startup
• Changed BluRay export container options to only allow 'MTS' and 'M2TS'
Fixes:
• Fixed CineForm codec not supporting all proxy sizes
• Fixed potential hang when attempting to enter a project
• Fixed incorrect appearance of user interface when opening a clip to a source viewer (Fixed layout)
• Fixed audio no longer being heard during playback as levels are greyed out like the track has been disabled
• Fixed audio not being muted when in Fixed layout after deselecting an A track
• Fixed clip deactivation setting not persisting when exiting a project
• Fixed tear off timecodes not persisting when exiting a project
• Fixed incorrect sequences being created when importing clips
• Fixed black area appearing over a viewers with sequences containing audio only clips
• Fixed viewer not updating when jumping in full screen preview to the very end of the timeline
• Fixed incorrect frame rate being shown for audio files imported from an audio only AAF import
• Fixed incorrect sequence being created from an audio only AAF import
• Fixed incorrect start timecode being added to clips from an audio only AAF import
• Fixed failure to automatically connect to QScan at start-up when a non default port is used (not 8080)
• Fixed macro events not being processed when running a QC task
• Fixed potential crash loading sequences to viewers with BITC enabled
• Fixed inability to resize the 2D-DVE and DVE by dragging the corners
• Fixed potential failure when exporting as DVCPro100
• Fixed incorrect behaviour when dragging an un-imported clip into a sequence viewer
• Fixed UI issues on the project browser when running at smaller screen resolutions
• Fixed exported file not appearing in folders with special characters in path names
• Fixed Settings menu icons being hidden on viewers at smaller screen resolutions
• Fixed potential failure uploading to YouTube export option at higher resolutions
• Fixed Canon MXF 12-bit file not being decoded at full quality
• Fixed Video Tools scopes showing strange results in case of 10Bit AVID DNxHD media
• Fixed incorrect image on the sequence viewer when set to PAL 16:9 when playing over a Title effect
• Fixed audio effects not being added to all grouped tracks when 'Allow folded effects' is disabled
• Fixed multiple effects being added to grouped audio tracks when using 'Matching clips' option
• Fixed User FX files no longer showing specified point X/Y labels
• Fixed missing underline icons on the VFX tab
• Fixed inability to right click an audio effect on the Routing tab and add another
• Fixed clip Ranged Markers not showing up within a sequence on some occasions
• Fixed missing underline icons on the AUDIO tab
• Fixed truncated project browser screen when using multiple displays
• Fixed Lightworks.archive exports not always including all the media links
• Fixed incorrect handling of the ChromaKey effect
• Fixed Matrox 701 files from previous versions of Lightworks no longer playing correctly
• Fixed slow application start times when a lot of audio plugins are present on the system
• Fixed 'Add video transition' keyboard shortcut not working correctly
• Fixed PAL playback and export with HD media
• Fixed potential crash revealing the transitions panel (ie, pressing F8)
• Fixed odd anamorphic behaviour with export files
• Fixed crash dragging a remote folder over the bins list
• Fixed Grass Valley HQX made in Fusion looking pink in lightworks
• Fixed potential crash scanning audio plugins on startup
• Fixed projects not resizing and appearing correctly on the project browser
• Fixed inability to switch sequence owners in shared projects
• Fixed potential crash when signing out of the application
• Fixed inability to save keyboard preferences if. prefs is not appended to the name and the destination folder
name contains a dot
• Fixed incorrect Chromakey if the foreground image is a different shape to the background image
• Fixed Out point vanishing when dragging to a new position within a sequence
• Fixed Mouse-wheel adjustments of effects parameters not working
• Fixed Sequences created from prints with FX tracks having too many video tracks
• Fixed 3D LUTs applied in earlier versions of Lightworks not appearing correctly
• Fixed incorrect clip timecode on some clips within embedded AAF exports
• Fixed incorrect metadata being referenced in AAF exports that do not include embedded audio
Windows New Features and Fixes
This section describes the Windows new features and fixes contained in this release.
New Features:
• N/A
Fixes:
• Fixed potential memory leak during exports
• Fixed potential crash during exports
Linux New Features and Fixes
This section describes the Linux new features and fixes contained in this release.
New Features:
• N/A
Fixes:
• Fixed playback of PNG images
• Fixed crash clicking the Cue Marker icon
• Fixed jog shortcut keys not working correctly
• Fixed voice over tool not recording
• Fixed MXF exports failing immediately
macOS New Features and Fixes
This section describes the macOS new features and fixes contained in this release.
New Features:
• N/A
Fixes:
• Fixed potential failure to start the application
• Fixed incorrect image shown on the fullscreen display for large still images
• Fixed thin red line appearing on the export render preview window
Limitations and Known Problems in Version 2022.3
This section describes the limitations and known problems contained in this release.
Cross Platform
• Audio plugin effects can not be added as 'Favourites'
• Systems that do not support OpenCL will not experience the new Video Tools panel updates
• There is no Effects vendor categorisation in the Video/Audio Effects lists
• Depending on the amount of third party plugins installed on the system, the first startup of this new version may
be slow and consume memory
• H.264 Proxy files will fail to be created from high frame rate media
• Some proxy images may have incorrect black bars surrounding the image
• Some proxy files generated from H.265/HEVC media may be incorrect
• Issues generating proxy files from 4k media with codecs other than H.264
• Contour ShuttlePROs will not work unless you duplicate the 'Lightworks' settings in their app and then point it at
the new 2021.2 release
• Prints containing multiple V tracks and DVEs used will not display correctly in a sequence
• DVEs may change position when switching to a different sequence output
• MXF, AVI and MOV export options have an incorrect mix of PAL and NTSC options
• H.264/MP4 exports at 23.98fps show the audio sync is half a frame out
• PAL/NTSC source files thumbnails/viewers may not play out on the hardware I/O
• Freeze frames, in sequences exported to AAF, are ignored in Adobe Premiere (XML works).
• Proxy files are not created for files shorter than one second in length, when set to H.264.
• A crash may occur when attempting to export an image sequence from a sequence containing 16-bit DPX files.
• After removing a media space, with the import panel open, Media may appear offline.
• Some MTS files show pixelation on the start frames.
• The Video Analysis tool appears through the FX configuration panel when configuring a color correction effect.
• The Audio Monitor Delay setting is not accounted for during export.
• AVID DNxHD 10bit encode is not possible.
• There is no support for importing .WMV files.
• Make sure all applications are closed before attempting to install Lightworks.
• The ability to transcode 1080p 60fps files on import to AVID DNxHD, is not supported.
• Blu-ray VC1 export does not generate a valid file, instead it imports back as Sound only.
• Audio on exported AVCHD files cannot be played by Windows Media Player. The audio is muted.
Windows 64-bit
• There is no QuickTime Movie/MPEG4 import/export via Apple SDK.
• After Effects plug-ins are not supported.
Linux 64-bit
• Debian Distros:
o Ubuntu/Lubuntu/Xbuntu 20.04 and higher
o Mint 17 and higher
• RPM Distros:
o Fedora 34 and higher
• Fedora is only supported when enabling Xorg. There is no support for Wayland (default) currently.
• Some audio plugins cause a hang at startup (launching Lightworks using sudo is a temporary workaround)
• Custom plugin user interfaces are currently disabled
• Fedora installs fail if using Mesa drivers.
• There is no QuickTime Movie/MPEG4 export option.
• There is no .WMV import.
• ATI and Nvidia cards are supported. LWKS Software LTD recommends Nvidia for the best performance.
• There is no FX plug-in support.
• Do not use linux default GFX driver. If you experience the viewer playing at a reduced size then the Linux default
graphics driver is installed. Make sure the Nvidia driver is loaded and that the system is restarted.
Mac OS X 10.11 and Higher
• Potential loss of output clicking the voice over icon on a sequence with AJA hardware enabled
• Any users running Macbook Pro systems MUST disable ’Automatic graphics switching’ under ’Energy Saver’ in
‘System Preferences’.
• Lightworks supports Mac OS X 10.11 (El Capitan) and higher, earlier versions are not tested
• There is no H.264 MOV export.
• There is no QuickTime/MPEG4 export option.
• There is no Apple ProRes 4444 export option.
• There is no support for Matrox I/O hardware.
• The shared project feature is not currently operable.
• Video overlay may change brightness on playback when running dual monitor setups.
• MTS Playback may be poor.
Matrox Hardware I/O
• If your system is not fast enough or does not have sufficient memory, the captures using MXO2 will stop with a
’dropped-frame’ message.
• If the drives you are recording to are not fast enough the captures using MXO2 will stop with a ’dropped-frame’
message.
Limitations and Known Issues With Boris FX Continuum (Windows and Mac only)
• There is a crash opening Mocha Motion Tracker on some plugins
• The image background is missing when opening up BCC Mocha Pixel Chooser
• OpenFX transitions between segments of different dimensions are not correct
• Potential hang attempting to add an effect to a clip if the thumbnail image is grey
Limitations and Known Issues With NewBlue FX (Windows and Mac only)
• When opening the Titler Pro plugin there is a long delay waiting for the plugin to open and display the licensing
panel (NewBlue issue)
• Rendering may be incorrect on Title effects (NewBlue issue)
• Uninstalling NewBlue may result in text not showing within Lightworks, please restart the system (NewBlue issue)
Blackmagic Hardware I/O
• Input or Output only devices cannot be used. Lightworks requires both an Input and an Output to be present on
the device.
• USB 3.0 devices may not work correctly on a Mac running Windows Bootcamp.
• Audio monitor level control has no effect on Blackmagic recordings.
• You will not be able to view video on the Blackmagic output if Precision is set to 10-bit. Change setting to 8-bit
• You will not be able to view video from Boris Red via the Blackmagic Output when Lightworks is running.
• SDI Output does not playback smoothly if a title has been applied to the material.
AJA Hardware I/O
• Audio monitor level control has no effect on AJA recording.
• There is no E-E when using the KONA LHi during recording.
• If your system is not fast enough or does not have enough memory, the captures using AJA devices will stop with
a ‘dropped-frame message.
• If the drives you are recording to are not fast enough, the captures using AJA devices will stop with a ‘droppedframe’ message.
• AJA/BMD SDI Output does not playback smoothly if a title has been applied to the clip.
• On Kona 3G SDI 2 output must be used with Windows 64bit.


New Features and Fixes in Version 2022.2

New Features:
• Added Apple ProRes Decode/Encode certified by Apple
• Added ability to import 10-bit media preserving the maximum detail captured by 10-bit capable cameras
• Added ability to add a LUT to an individual clip or a bin of clips in List view
• Added camera manufacturer LUTs (ARRI, Canon, GoPro, Panasonic, RED and Sony) to the installers
• Added automatic camera metadata extraction from MOV and MXF media files
• Added enhancements to the Video Tools panel (Requires OpenCL compatible graphics cards)
o Added new scope CIE scope (Lightworks Pro Only)
o Added ability to create split view panels for multiple scopes to be visible at the same time (Lightworks
Pro Only)
o Vectorscope, RGB and Histogram have been updated and improved
o The RGB scope has been broken into individual separate panels: R, G and B
o The YrCbCr scope has been broken into individual separate panels: Y, Cb and Cr (Lightworks Create/Pro
Only)
o Added option for displaying the Graticule on top of the graph on the Video Tools panel
o Added option to zoom in on the Histogram graph on the Video Tools panel
• Added 10/12-bit Export options (Lightworks Pro Only)
o AVID DNxHD HQ compression has been added within the 'MOV' and 'MXF' export options (Separate
AVID DNxHD license required)
o Apple ProRes HQ compression has been added within the 'MOV' export option
o Panasonic AVC-Intra export option now exports at 10-bit
o Sony XAVC export option now exports at 10-bit
o Cineform 10-bit compression is now the only option within the 'MOV' and 'AVI' export options
o Added 8/10-bit encode options according to GPU format for Apple ProRes, Cineform and
Uncompressed
• Added QScan integration within Lightworks interface (Lightworks Pro Only)
o Added ability to configure connection to QScan within 'System Settings'
o Added ability to right click and imported media file and choose: Media->QC->Scan
o Added ability to run QC check on exported sequences on the Export panel
o Added ability to configure the list of QC templates that appears in Lightworks
o Added ability to perform QC scans on imported clips automatically
o Added ability to display QScan format events on task completion
• Added warning during export file creation if a FAT32 formatted drive is being used for the export location
• Added performance improvements for H.264/H.265 decode
• Added full resolution decode of 12-bit H.265
• Added the ability to generate Apple ProRes proxy files (Lightworks Pro Only)
• Added more flexible parsing of user effects files
• Added improvements to the LUT selection list
• Added 'Make > Bin' option when right clicking inside a bin group
• Added further MP4 playback performance improvements
• Added 'Reveal system logs' button within 'System Settings'
• Added in more options for Apple ProRes proxy creation (Lightworks Pro Only)
• Added support for display of Apple ProRes 4444 alpha channel
• Improved inter-project asset copying, including moving the process to a background task
• Improved speed of WAV exports (Lightworks Pro Only)
• Improved the list of available AVID DNxHD compression options when exporting (Separate AVID DNxHD license
required)
• Improved the ordering of compression options for MOV, MXF and AVI export options (Lightworks Pro Only)
• Improved message when activating a license to be more informative
• Increased WAV file export size limit to 4Gb (Lightworks Pro Only)
• Updated the German wordings file to be more accurate
• Simplified the QC job submission user interface
• Reinstated warning for Long GOP media on import
• Re-enabled downscale decode for Apple ProRes thumbnails if square pixel
Fixes:
• Fixed failure to sign in successfully to Vimeo on the export panel
• Fixed incorrect export formats being listed on the export panel when set to 1080p 23.98
• Fixed incorrect error message when encountering a 23.98fps clip in a 24fps sequence
• Fixed incorrect video orientation in exported file compared to the sequence
• Fixed incorrect behaviour with the Push effect when applied to rotated media
• Fixed potential crash moving the Mackie faders when the audio mixer panel previously had no focused sequence
• Fixed incorrect behaviour dragging and dropping a selection of clips on the sequence timeline
• Fixed incorrect playback of a particular DVCPro50 media sample file
• Fixed User Effect files not working correctly
• Fixed incorrect image/colour on exported MOV files from NewBlue Titler Pro
• Fixed png MOV files losing their alpha channel
• Fixed audio only AAF import failing with 'Invalid composition edit rate'
• Hidden the 'Make' option if not applicable on the 'Local files' library
• Fixed incorrect aspect ratio being read from Quicktime files
• User effects that contain invalid parameter flags can no longer be installed
• Fixed performance issues during playback
• Fixed incorrect colour on PNG MOV samples
• Fixed effect keyframe position setting not being preserved correctly
• Fixed Bin not disappearing when deleting a bin from inside a Group
• Fixed inability to create a proxy for 'create link' media that has no link file
• Fixed playback of audio in separate streams (as opposed to all channels in one stream) when FFMPEG is used ie,
.mkv
• Fixed every successive use of 'Replace with' when removing an option from the list for next time on the Effects
panel
• Fixed crash with image sequences that have a number more than 16 digits
• Fixed incorrect RED R3D images when set to 32bit floating point on the project card
• Fixed AVID DNxHD HQX-10bit image (decoded) looking brighter after rendering
• Fixed Effect names that contain brackets not being parsed correctly
• Fixed missing sequences when restoring a project with VST plugins
• Fixed OpenFX effects not working correctly with rotated media
• Fixed stuttering playback of fixed GOP length media files
• Fixed Image-key Blend modes not working
• Fixed broken thumbnail images on Wipe patterns
• Fixed audio EQ cutting out before the end of the clip section
• Fixed the image size of the sequence viewer not remaining constant when opening the Effects/BITC panels when
the Letterbox feature has been applied (Flexible layout)
• Fixed missing image playback when set to 1080i playback format
• Fixed potential crash removing redundant cuts from a marked sequence
• Fixed video image not appearing when trimming a sequence that contains an effect on the Effects track
• Fixed H.264 proxy creation of interlaced 1080i source media failing
• Fixed DVE incorrectly changing the brightness of the clip it is applied to
• Fixed potential crash restoring a project from an archive
• Fixed incorrect edge softness on a DVE if a new Pivot position has been set
• Fixed potential crash with some DVCProHD media
• Fixed size calculation size on WAV exports
• Fixed application crashing when logging out of an RDP session
• Fixed potential crash during export if a blank line is present in the DefNetDrive.txt file
• Fixed some tiles in a list view bin showing as "Offline"
• Fixed performance issues copying thousands of assets between projects
• Fixed incorrect WAV Files being exported when setting 24/32 bit
• Fixed incorrect size calculations for WAV exports
• Fixed Flop effect no longer working
• Fixed incorrect Flip and Flop for media that's rotated by 90 or 270 degrees
• Fixed column sorting within the 'Local files' library not working for all subfolders
• Fixed potential crash while making proxy files
• Fixed label mapping timecode setting not persisting
Windows New Features and Fixes
This section describes the Windows new features and fixes contained in this release.
New Features:
• N/A
Fixes:
• Fixed incorrect playback of plugin effects on vertical frames during proxy playback
• Fixed potential crash when adding a Boris transition to a segment with insufficient media and an odd sequence
output format
Linux New Features and Fixes
This section describes the Linux new features and fixes contained in this release.
New Features:
• Added support for Ubuntu 22.04
• Minimum supported version of Fedora is now 34
Fixes:
• N/A
macOS New Features and Fixes
This section describes the macOS new features and fixes contained in this release.
New Features:
• N/A
Fixes:
• Fixed Panasonic P2 AVC-Intra exports failing immediately
• Fixed incorrect playback of plugin effects on vertical frames during proxy playback
• Fixed potential crash when adding a Boris transition to a segment with insufficient media and an odd sequence
output format
Limitations and Known Problems in Version 2022.2
This section describes the limitations and known problems contained in this release.
Cross Platform
• Audio plugin effects can not be added as 'Favourites'
• Systems that do not support OpenCL will not experience the new Video Tools panel updates
• There is no Effects vendor categorisation in the Video/Audio Effects lists
• Depending on the amount of third party plugins installed on the system, the first startup of this new version may
be slow and consume memory
• H.264 Proxy files will fail to be created from high frame rate media
• Some proxy images may have incorrect black bars surrounding the image
• Some proxy files generated from H.265/HEVC media may be incorrect
• Issues generating proxy files from 4k media with codecs other than H.264
• Contour ShuttlePROs will not work unless you duplicate the 'Lightworks' settings in their app and then point it at
the new 2021.2 release
• Prints containing multiple V tracks and DVEs used will not display correctly in a sequence
• DVEs may change position when switching to a different sequence output
• MXF, AVI and MOV export options have an incorrect mix of PAL and NTSC options
• H.264/MP4 exports at 23.98fps show the audio sync is half a frame out
• PAL/NTSC source files thumbnails/viewers may not play out on the hardware I/O
• Freeze frames, in sequences exported to AAF, are ignored in Adobe Premiere (XML works).
• Proxy files are not created for files shorter than one second in length, when set to H.264.
• A crash may occur when attempting to export an image sequence from a sequence containing 16-bit DPX files.
• After removing a media space, with the import panel open, Media may appear offline.
• Some MTS files show pixelation on the start frames.
• The Video Analysis tool appears through the FX configuration panel when configuring a color correction effect.
• The Audio Monitor Delay setting is not accounted for during export.
• AVID DNxHD 10bit encode is not possible.
• There is no support for importing .WMV files.
• Make sure all applications are closed before attempting to install Lightworks.
• The ability to transcode 1080p 60fps files on import to AVID DNxHD, is not supported.
• Blu-ray VC1 export does not generate a valid file, instead it imports back as Sound only.
• Audio on exported AVCHD files cannot be played by Windows Media Player. The audio is muted.
Windows 64-bit
• There is no QuickTime Movie/MPEG4 import/export via Apple SDK.
• After Effects plug-ins are not supported.
Linux 64-bit
• Debian Distros:
o Ubuntu/Lubuntu/Xbuntu 18.04 and higher
o Mint 17 and higher
• RPM Distros:
o Fedora 34 and higher
• Fedora is only supported when enabling Xorg. There is no support for Wayland (default) currently.
• Custom plugin user interfaces are currently disabled
• Fedora installs fail if using Mesa drivers.
• There is no QuickTime Movie/MPEG4 export option.
• There is no .WMV import.
• ATI and Nvidia cards are supported. LWKS Software LTD recommends Nvidia for the best performance.
• There is no FX plug-in support.
• Do not use linux default GFX driver. If you experience the viewer playing at a reduced size then the Linux default
graphics driver is installed. Make sure the Nvidia driver is loaded and that the system is restarted.
Mac OS X 10.11 and Higher
• Potential loss of output clicking the voice over icon on a sequence with AJA hardware enabled
• Any users running Macbook Pro systems MUST disable ’Automatic graphics switching’ under ’Energy Saver’ in
‘System Preferences’.
• Lightworks supports Mac OS X 10.11 (El Capitan) and higher, earlier versions are not tested
• There is no H.264 MOV export.
• There is no QuickTime/MPEG4 export option.
• There is no Apple ProRes 4444 export option.
• There is no support for Matrox I/O hardware.
• The shared project feature is not currently operable.
• Video overlay may change brightness on playback when running dual monitor setups.
• MTS Playback may be poor.
Matrox Hardware I/O
• If your system is not fast enough or does not have sufficient memory, the captures using MXO2 will stop with a
’dropped-frame’ message.
• If the drives you are recording to are not fast enough the captures using MXO2 will stop with a ’dropped-frame’
message.
Limitations and Known Issues With Boris FX Continuum (Windows and Mac only)
• There is a crash opening Mocha Motion Tracker on some plugins
• The image background is missing when opening up BCC Mocha Pixel Chooser
• OpenFX transitions between segments of different dimensions are not correct
• Potential hang attempting to add an effect to a clip if the thumbnail image is grey
Limitations and Known Issues With NewBlue FX (Windows and Mac only)
• When opening the Titler Pro plugin there is a long delay waiting for the plugin to open and display the licensing
panel (NewBlue issue)
• Rendering may be incorrect on Title effects (NewBlue issue)
• Uninstalling NewBlue may result in text not showing within Lightworks, please restart the system (NewBlue issue)
Blackmagic Hardware I/O
• Input or Output only devices cannot be used. Lightworks requires both an Input and an Output to be present on
the device.
• USB 3.0 devices may not work correctly on a Mac running Windows Bootcamp.
• Audio monitor level control has no effect on Blackmagic recordings.
• You will not be able to view video on the Blackmagic output if Precision is set to 10-bit. Change setting to 8-bit
• You will not be able to view video from Boris Red via the Blackmagic Output when Lightworks is running.
• SDI Output does not playback smoothly if a title has been applied to the material.
AJA Hardware I/O
• Audio monitor level control has no effect on AJA recording.
• There is no E-E when using the KONA LHi during recording.
• If your system is not fast enough or does not have enough memory, the captures using AJA devices will stop with
a ‘dropped-frame message.
• If the drives you are recording to are not fast enough, the captures using AJA devices will stop with a ‘droppedframe’ message.
• AJA/BMD SDI Output does not playback smoothly if a title has been applied to the clip.
• On Kona 3G SDI 2 output must be used with Windows 64bit.


Version 2022.1

Some of the new Features and Improvements in 2022.1 can be seen below:

Support For OpenFX Plugins (Lightworks Pro Only)

This has been a long time coming but we are pleased to announce that 2022.1 now comes with OpenFX support across all three operating systems. This really is an important update to the entire FX engine and opens up an entire world of FX possibilities. OpenFX is an open standard for visual effects plugins and allows plugins written to the standard to work within this new version of Lightworks.
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There is a very long list of plugin providers out there that support this standard and as such, we have not tested all of them. Below is a list of some of the bigger names we have tested against and support, please pay particular attention to the supported packages:
NewBlue Version 7.8.210803 (TotalFX, Titler Pro, Elements, Transitions, Filters, Stylizers and Essentials) Windows and Mac Only
Boris FX version 2021.5 (Continuum and Title Studio) Windows and Mac Only
Boris FX version 2021.5 (Sapphire)
Maxon Version 14.0.4 (Magic Bullet Looks) Windows and Mac Only
There are some current limitations and known issues which we hope to have resolved during this Beta cycle, these can be found under the “Limitations and Known Issues” section of the Beta Downloads page.

We appreciate that some of you will already have plugins that are not on the supported list above or have various plugins from other providers (free or commercial) we welcome you to try these in the new Beta build and we would love to hear from you regarding what plugins you have and what is or is not working. We cannot promise to get them all working but we can certainly make sure we have awareness of what you are keen to have working.

If you wish to try the plugins mentioned in the vendors listed above, they do have trial versions which will work and allow you to test, however, they will be protected with watermarks etc.

Support For Audio Plugins in VST3, AudioUnit and LADSPA formats (Lightworks Pro Only)

It is with such pleasure to announce that audio plugins can now be used within Lightworks 2022.1. There are some excellent audio plugin providers out there that make cleaning up, improving or altering audio a breeze. You can now harness that power with a simple drag/drop to the timeline from the AUDIO tab (Fixed layout) or the Audio section of the Effects panel (Flexible layout)
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As with the OpenFX work above, there is a very long list of plugin providers that support these standards and as such, we have not tested all of them.

Below is a list of some of the bigger names we have tested against and support, please pay particular attention to the supported packages:
Waves Version 12.0.5 (All plugins version)
Accusonus ERA Bundle Version 6
Melda Plugins Version 15 Beta (Free Bundle)
Sonnox (Inflator, Reverb and Envolution)
There are some limitations and known issues which we hope to have resolved during this Beta cycle, these can be found under the “Limitations and Known Issues” section of the Beta Downloads page:

We appreciate that some of you will already have plugins that are not on the supported list above or have various plugins from other providers (free or commercial) we welcome you to try these in the new Beta build and we would love to hear from you regarding what plugins you have and what is or is not working. We cannot promise to get them all working but we can certainly make sure we have awareness of what you are keen to have working.


Improved the output file of Changelists to be more up to date (Lightworks Pro Only)

The ability to generate a Changelist between two different sequences is by no means new, but the output file that is generated sure is. We have given these a makeover to include more relevant information for the world today and made them much more functional and useful. There is still some tweaks to be made here and there but we do welcome your feedback on this new feature.

There are many more great new features and changes which can be found in the “Fixes and Features” section of the Beta Downloads page.


Lightworks Pro Outright Customers

This new version is a major release version (2021.x->2022.x) this means customers with Lightworks Pro Outright licenses from version 11, 12, 14, 2020 or 2021 will not have access to the new Pro features in this new version.

We are working to add functionality to the website to make purchasing license upgrades available to Lightworks Pro Outright customers. In the meantime, we will be adding in a special license type over the coming weeks, that will allow Lightworks Pro Outright customers the ability to test the Pro features during this Beta cycle.


NewBlue TotalFX 360

Our friends at NewBlue have kindly issued us with a temporary license code that will allow Lightworks Pro customers to test the full blown TotalFX package for the next four weeks in 2022.1. If you have a Lightworks Pro license then please ping me an email (matt@lwks.com) and I will send on the NewBlue activation code along with instructions.

Please Note: This is not currently available for Lightworks Pro Outright customers, we hope to have addressed this in the next Beta build.


New Features and Fixes in Version 2021.3

This section summarizes the fixes, enhancements, and features that have been implemented in this
release of Lightworks.
Cross Platform New Features and Fixes
This section describes the cross-platform new features and fixes contained in this release.
New Features:
• Added ability to add Cloud storage providers as import locations under 'Libraries'
o Added support for Google Drive
o Added support for Google Photos
o Added support for Dropbox
o Added support for Box
o Added support for OneDrive
o Added support for PCloud
• Added ability to upload exported content to Cloud storage providers from the export panel
o Added support for Google Drive
o Added support for Google Photos
o Added support for Dropbox
o Added support for Box
o Added support for OneDrive
o Added support for PCloud
• Added new startup wizard
o Sign in panel has been reworked
o Choose the language from the list of available languages
o Choose the keyboard shortcut layout (Blackmagic Resolve and Adobe Premiere now
added)
o Choose the application layout (Fixed or Flexible)
o Choose to watch the Quick Start Video
o New projects now default to opening on the EDIT tab rather than the LOG tab (Fixed
layout)
• Added new import panel design, layout and usability
o Adds new treeview layout
o Adds new tiles view option (similar to bins)
o Adds the ability to filter import contents
o Adds the ability to configure column headers (similar to bins)
• Improved the behaviour and look of 'Hints' throughout the application
o Hints now include an 'OK' button in order to not see the hint again
o Hints no longer stack on top of one another
o Hints now appear in a different colour (changeable within the Appearance panel)
o Hints are now positioned relative to the area requiring explanation
o Hints now allows users to "Take the tour" of the application
• Added new keyboard shortcut functionality
o Make new sequence (current settings) - Creates a new empty sequence using the
settings that have been defined by the user
o Make new sequence (choose settings) - Opens the new sequence settings panel allowing
the user to decide the new sequence settings
o Make sequence copy - Makes a copy of the current sequence that is in record mode, or
the sequence that has focus
o Select all segments - Selects all the segments in a sequence (yellow border) (This should
open the sequence timeline if not already visible in Flexible layout)
o Deselect all segments - Deselects all the segments that are currently selected (yellow
border) in a sequence
o Speed - Opens the varispeed panel to change the speed of a sequence segment
o Mark all selected clips - Marks all selected clips in a bin (start to end)
o Clear In - Removes the In mark on the viewer or tile that has focus
o Clear Out - Removed the Out mark on the viewer or tile that has focus
o Go to next cue marker - Jump to the next cue marker in the viewer or tile that has focus
o Go to previous cue marker - Jump to the previous cue marker in the viewer or tile that
has focus
o Clear all cue markers - Removes all the cue markers on the selected source
o Minimise all tracks - Minimises all the tracks in the sequence with focus
o Thumbnail size - Change the thumbnail image size for clips in the bin (At least one tile in
the bin should have focus)
• Added further improvements to third party libraries
o Added a better workflow for sign in/registration
o Added ‘Sign in’ button to the vendors splash screen
o Added the ability to get back to the vendors splash screen (by clicking the ‘Back’ arrow)
o Added settings icons (three dots) to each of the vendors libraries
• Restored the ability to append the sequence frame rate to the sequence name when making a
copy
o If you leave the name unchanged and select a new frame rate, then the rate is appended
to the new name (instead of ‘copy’)
o If you specify a new sequence name, there will be no suffix
o If you apply multiple conversions (frame rate change, trace etc) the name will be
appended with each option
• Added new startup progress bar (welcome back Lucy)
• Added improvements to the Amazing Music Tracks integration
• Added settings menu icons back to each panel (Fixed Layout)
• Added ability to remember the current time/position of tiles in filters (when exiting the project
and re entering)
• Added the ability to adjust timeline segment font-size (independently of the main UI font)
• Added an alert for users when starting an export but some high-resolution media is not available
• Added a system setting to disable/enable Lightworks Console support (off by default)
• Added ability to 'Reveal' a project location on the project browser
• Added support for future versions that do not have separate media link files
• Added ability to SHIFT click the file-browser 'Up' icon to jump directly to the root of the drive
• Added 'File size' column to cloud storage provider libraries (r)
• Added a warning on export to report if the cloud service is unavailable (r)
• Added ability to multi-select Groups from the Content Manager list
• Added a config to disable automatic marking of popped-out tiles (auto_mark_tiles 0)
• Added keyboard shortcut commands ('Toggle FX1' and up to FX8) for toggling FX track selection
• Added warning to alert users if starting a sequence archive but some high-resolution media is not
available
• Added 'Adobe Premiere Pro' and 'Blackmagic Resolve' as AAF export targets (Lightworks Pro Only)
• Added new keyboard shortcut functionality within the 'Adobe Premiere Pro' and 'Blackmagic
Resolve' prefs files
• Added 'Frame rate' information to the export task log
• Ignored 'Auto' frame rate sequences when dragging and dropping selections from bins to
sequences
• Improved handling of bin/table column resizing and visibility
• Improved the appearance of the license activation panel
• Improved AAF/XML import and export foundations
• Improved handling of opening projects created with earlier versions of Lightworks
• Improved the column headers panel on Bins and Libraries
o Column headers can now be repositioned on the panel directly
o Removed the ‘Customise’ panel as no longer required
• Split the project creation panel into Simple and Advanced tab settings
• Removed the 'guest' Free license, all systems now require an active and verified account in order
to access the Free version
• Removed WebM and WMV as export formats (Lightworks Pro only)
• Removed analysis of OFX plugins (could cause hang starting/exiting)
• Removed clickable media location link on files imported from cloud storage providers
• Changed 24fps timecodes written to marker text files to use ':' instead of '+'
Fixes:
• Fixed tile sizes changing automatically when switching between user created bins that have
different position settings
• Fixed missing icons on sequence viewers when creating a new empty sequence that has a zero
length (Flexible layout)
• Fixed OMF export never actually progressing on the Tasks panel
• Fixed incorrect playback with Apple QTRLE sample files
• Fixed crash double clicking in an empty text box
• Fixed MKV files importing with the incorrect duration
• Fixed missing AAC audio on .MKV sample files
• Fixed incorrect audio playback on sample .mp3 file
• Fixed Timecode calculator AC and CE buttons
• Fixed 'Local files' library column menu panel losing the top of the panel after scrolling
• Fixed desktop tiles created by older versions of Lightworks not having viewer/filecard/timeline
icons when you move the mouse over them (Flexible layout)
• Fixed the import panel not showing 'Local Files' by default if the language is not English (Flexible
layout)
• Fixed potential missing 'Close' icon from the drop-down Rooms list
• Fixed title on 'System Settings' panel not updating when changing the language
• Fixed no audio (AAC) being present on some .MKV files
• Fixed failure message when attempting to 'Localise' cloud storage media
• Fixed image in sequence viewer switching to a different frame when clicking the Unjoin/Join
button
• Fixed missing timecode when making a marked section copy from a sequence
• Fixed crash unjoining the lower audio track from a stereo track
• Fixed H.265/HEVC and .MKV files being limited to one hour duration maximum
• Fixed renamed audio tracks causing exported files to be missing audio
• Fixed sequences created from 1.001 clips having the wrong playback-format rate
• Fixed no audio being present on sample .MKV file
• Fixed incorrect video playback on sample .MKV file
• Sequence frame-rates are no longer limited to integer rates
• Fixed Subclips made from a Sync showing the incorrect timecode on a viewer to what is shown in a
bin
• Fixed potential crash zooming into reverse varispeeded audio
• Fixed black frames appearing at the end of HEVC media causing frame skip errors
• Fixed crash consuming memory with icons when the UI is scaled
• Fixed varispeed widgets from being drawn for every UI update whilst playing
• Fixed distorted audio on the sequence timeline with higher frame rate media
• Fixed appearance of cloud storage images looking poor quality on 4K displays
• Fixed missing waveform thumbnails for Audio Network and Amazing Music Tracks
• Fixed Cart panel for third party libraries having no minimum size
• Fixed missing thumbnails in the Cart from third party libraries
• Fixed Syncs not appearing after being created from a sequence when the 'Syncs' filter is hidden
• Fixed incorrect appearance of the default wallpaper at 4k resolutions
• Fixed timecode labels panel appearing through the edge of the viewer when pinned (Flexible
layout only)
• Fixed incorrect 'Modified date' being shown on the Clipboard
• Fixed timecode label panel showing '???' issue on subclips created from from syncs in earlier
versions
• Fixed incorrect aspect ratio causing redraw issues on the Clipboard
• Fixed incorrect reading of interlaced media on import
• Fixed inability to change the "Video Format" on the Metadata panel of a clip
• Fixed YouTube export failing on sequences set to 1080i
• Fixed inability to remove YouTube/Vimeo 'Tags' on the export panel
• Fixed subclips created from syncs retaining the sync as a parent
• Fixed rotation values entered via the graphs textbox being unnecessarily constrained
• Fixed crash deleting a user created effect from the Transitions panel
• Fixed incorrect audio channel information in embedded OMF exports
• Fixed potential audio crackle when playing files backwards
• Fixed sequence timeline moving position when minimising tracks
• Fixed Mackie fader in 'Flip' mode not staying in the position selected
• Fixed audio terminating early on MKV sample files associated with an AAF import
• Fixed incorrect audio playback on MKV sample files that contain AAC SBR encoding
• Fixed FX track vanishing when dragging all the selected effects on the track
• Fixed subframe keyframes sometimes incorrectly displaying 0° on 3D DVE effect
• Fixed implicit audio soft cuts not being applied to redundant cuts
• Fixed project archives created prior to 2021.x not being updated correctly
• Fixed crash opening a project created in an earlier version
• Fixed MKV files captured with OBS having no audio
• Fixed Media reappearing after being deleted
Windows New Features and Fixes
This section describes the Windows new features and fixes contained in this release.
New Features:
• Improved the installer appearance on high DPI monitors
Fixes:
• N/A
Linux New Features and Fixes
This section describes the Linux new features and fixes contained in this release.
New Features:
• Added better text rendering to help with appearance
Fixes:
• Removed additional third party install dependencies
macOS New Features and Fixes
This section describes the macOS new features and fixes contained in this release.
New Features:
• N/A
Fixes:
• N/A


New Features and Fixes in Version 2021.2

This section summarizes the fixes, enhancements, and features that have been implemented in this release of Lightworks.
Cross Platform New Features and Fixes
This section describes the cross-platform new features and fixes contained in this release.
New Features:
• Added new keyboard shortcut commands
o "Save current sequence frame" (which saves the frame from the current record
sequence)
o "Save current frame" (which saves the frame from the focus)
o "Associates" (which opens the Associates tab for the current clip/sequence)
• Added additional capabilities to the "Find-> Clip references' panel
o Segments with/without "Effects" can now be searched for (can be narrowed down to
just Video or Audio by deselecting the tracks)
o Segments with/without "Media" can now be searched for
o Segments with/without "Cue Markers" can now be searched for
o Segments that are "Active" Yes/No can now be searched for
o Restored the ability to 'Jump to next match' and 'Jump to previous match' options
• Added improvements to the export panel to be more intelligent about available/unavailable
formats
o Export formats are now allowed if they can't handle the exact sequence frame-rate
o Export formats that cannot generate files with the same aspect-ratio as the sequence
are shown with red suffixes
o Export formats with a red suffix now show an explanatory message if such a format is
selected
• Added ability to nudge a trim using the mouse wheel if there are unjoined cuts (Requires
"mouse_wheel_nudge 1" in config.dat)
• Added ability to set the default frame rate for importable items which do not have a known framerate
• Added 'Frame-rate' to the list of default table view Bin attributes
• Added new hint when revealing the 'New project' panel for the first time in a Universal Project
version of Lightworks
• Added ability to restore the timeline zoom level when reopening a sequence
• Added 'projects.txt' file to the project location which helps decipher project cookie names to
actual project names
• Added ability for the next/previous keyboard shortcuts to stop at transition midpoints
• Added the ability to rename Custom Formats on the project card
• Added ability to generate 1080p proxies from larger file types (4K etc)
• Added option to the "Timeline->Settings" menu to configure whether or not tabbing stops at
transition mid-points
• Added ability to export Cue Marker list to Subtitle SRT format
• Improved the Batch Metadata panel
o Specify the name of another metadata field to copy text from (eg. <Scene>) within the
'Value' column
• Improved the behaviour of Groups and Bins within the content manager
o When expanding a group the list will try to avoid scrolling the bin list if possible
o When contracting a group that houses the current bin now avoid switching to the last
used bin
• Improved Bin deletion panel to automatically select 'Bins' when right clicking a Bin in the content
manager
• Improved safe trimming to be aware of adjacent transitions
• Improved behaviour when removing a broken dissolve not leaving behind broken media
• Improved the visual representation of transitions on the sequence timeline
• Improved setup with multiple displays, the project browser will now appear on the primary
monitor if the main window spans monitors
• Improved the stability playing media in some circumstances
• Improved memory handling and freeing with HEVC media
• Expanded the set of frame rates that can be assigned to image sequences
• Removed "Same as project" option on WAV export as no longer valid
• Removed the 'Lightworks' target format option from AAF and XML export options (no longer valid)
• Removed invalid AVCIntra 1080i 50fps (n.b. not 1080i50 = 25fps) formats
• Removed erroneous '50i' and '60i' options on sequence output formats for 50/60fps sequences
• Allowed HTML reports to be generated for all commands or assigned commands only
• Allowed drag/drop of timeline segment to the Bin '+' icon
• Avoided providing '30i' sequence playback formats
• Avoided showing '???' for primary timecode when parked on a transition
• Avoided forcing the user to press 'return' when typing the number of required tracks on the 'Add
multiple' tracks panel
• Prevented the timeline from being moved by dragging just below the timecode ruler
• Changed the tooltip for the viewer copy icon so that it explains that you can drag as well as click
(Flexible layout)
• Updated links to video tutorials within the application
• Updated to the latest AVID DNxHD codec SDK
• Assigned the shortcut key 'F10' to 'Audio crossfades' by default
• Disabled the ability to make a proxy from an offline file
• Disabled logging of sent messages in shared projects. Can be re-enabled via config.dat:
log_net_messages 1
Fixes:
• Fixed 'Hoover' function not displaying the correct results
• Fixed local projects getting lost when using a shared project-space and the Lightworks Pro license
is removed
• Fixed the 'show timeline' command not respecting the default timeline position
• Fixed the 'project details' keyboard shortcut not toggling the visibility of the project card on
successive keypresses
• Fixed Syncs showing the incorrect timecode in a bin to what is shown on the viewer timecode
panel after upgrading a project
• Fixed Bin not showing as highlighted in the content list when double clicking a bin shown in a
search result
• Fixed exports failing immediately when 'separate files' for the audio location is selected
• Fixed broken dissolves after sliding an adjacent segment when 'safe trimming' is enabled
• Fixed appearance issues on the batch metadata panel when selecting a tick box
• Fixed crash dragging a bin to the desktop after performing a search (Flexible layout)
• Fixed Search and replace panel losing the left side of the text when clicking into the Replace
section
• Fixed Bin search/replace not including custom metadata fields
• Fixed audio node dragging aborting if the mouse is moved outside of the track area
• Fixed segments on grouped tracks not showing as selected correctly when the track is disabled
• Fixed inability to entering colour-correction luminance values via the keyboard
• Fixed implicitly created source marks not necessarily appearing on frame boundaries
• Fixed dropping a tile onto a bin name not causing any pre-existing bin item to be updated
• Fixed incorrect appearance of the 'Simple 2D Shape' when applied over black
• Fixed keyframes not showing on dissolves when enabled in the timeline
• Fixed incorrect behaviour when dragging/dropping a clip on the sequence timeline below the
source viewer (Fixed layout)
• Fixed timeline resize issues after dragging and dropping a sequence from a bin into the active
sequence viewer (Flexible layout)
• Fixed inability to change the frame rate of an image sequence on the batch import panel (Flexible
layout)
• Fixed 'Show bin search results in racks' option on the Searchcard not working (Flexible layout)
• Fixed Search results containing bins not being restored correctly when re-entering a project
• Fixed popped out tiles revealed on the desktop not showing the implicit marked sections
• Fixed appearance of the selected codec on the Render panel
• Fixed potential crash clicking on segment speed in the timeline
• Fixed incorrect display of Audio Network clip thumbnails until clicked on
• Fixed redundant cut being left behind when removing a transition
• Fixed potential crash when attempting to add assets to a new bin
• Fixed inaccurate display of segment speed in the timeline
• Fixed incorrect sequence frame rate on AAF imports/exports
• Fixed failure closing the last Search bin (Flexible layout)
• Fixed crash closing an orphaned filecard (Flexible layout)
• Fixed incorrect audio playback on high frame rate media
• Fixed 'Drag in black' not working on FX tracks
• Fixed issues attempting to edit the 'Elapsed' time on viewers
• Fixed 'Find clip references' not working with still images in the sequence
• Fixed inability to delete a Bin when right clicking the bin area
• Fixed the Effects panel opening incorrectly after previously being resized
• Fixed inability to drag and drop an image sequence to a bin
• Fixed potentially a long delay entering very large projects
• Fixed MXF track coalescing not working when importing
• Fixed dates on the Searchcard not defaulting to todays date when set to "on, before or after"
• Fixed audio from an embedded AAF always importing as 16bit when it is actually 24bit
• Fixed audio imported from an embedded AAF not showing online immediately
• Fixed transitions with an outgoing segment that has insufficient media not always being drawn
correctly
• Fixed dragging and dropping of a transition from the simple wipes panel causing an unexpected
switch to the VFX tab
• Fixed incorrect pictures shown for segments adjacent to dissolves
• Fixed tile timeline becoming orphaned when 'Link bin tiles to viewers' is disabled
• Fixed clips dragged from the import panel direct to a table-view bin are not actually imported
• Fixed dragging files from the import panel to the bin generator creating a bin with no name
• Fixed transitions dragged from the simple wipes panel showing the incorrect length
• Fixed Transition duration appearing as '0' after adding a segment-based effect (eg. colour
correction)
• Fixed erratic behaviour when trimming the start of a clip with safe trimming enabled
• Fixed exports potentially failing in the Free version
• Fixed viewer/tile tooltips showing an empty 'Reel ID'
• Fixed sequence playback rate being set to 24 fps for various frame rates (30/50/60)
• Fixed menu pins not always being respected (Flexible layout)
• Fixed crash after using 'copy to clipboard'
• Fixed failure to export some Blu-ray formats
• Fixed failure to export some AVCIntra formats
• Fixed potential crash importing media via an ALE
• Fixed import panel should close following an import
• Fixed BITC checkboxes persisting when switching tabs
• Fixed sequence viewer not resizing correctly when inserting portrait media into a newly generated
empty sequence
• Fixed proxy media status not updating on the filecard after creating/deleting
• Fixed incorrect playback on rotated clips when set to an interlaced output format
• Fixed proxies for non-standard material being the wrong width (720x720, 1080x1080 etc.)
• Fixed 2K (2048x1556) H.264/MP4 export creating a 3840x2160 file
• Fixed attempted export to H.264/MP4 larger than 4K resulting in defaulting to the smallest format
• Fixed simple shapes appearing incorrectly when the sequence playback format is interlaced
• Fixed keyframe selection not working for the first or last keyframe
• Fixed potential crash importing MXF media from AVID Media Composer
• Fixed reordering tiles in a bin set to list view not always working
• Fixed incorrect playback of 47.95/48fps media
• Fixed Mark/Park region being incorrectly shown in the timecode ruler
• Fixed incorrect timecode being assigned to audio only clips imported via drag/drop
• Fixed crash dragging from the Markers panel of an un-imported clip
• Fixed incorrect Gradients when routed to empty black areas of the timeline
• Fixed automatic inaccurately calculated letterbox values
• Fixed clips dragged to the sequence timeline being appended to the wrong track
• Fixed Effects applied to rotated clips looking incorrect
• Fixed clip cues not being visible within transitions
• Fixed missing 'Replace with import' option for Assistant Applications
• Fixed tile positions not being preserved when dragging a bin from the treeview to the '+' icon
• Fixed sequences losing their assigned playback format after converting a project from older
versions of Lightworks
• Fixed rotated clips with an inline colour correction playing back incorrectly when set to an
interlaced output format
• Fixed Proxy task log showing the source format not the proxy created format
• Fixed potential crash right clicking a newly created multicam bin
• Fixed Media locations that have been removed reappearing again when restarting the applicaton
• Fixed one frame hole being left behind when removing a transition
• Fixed incorrect Simple 2D shape applied over 'Create Video Black'
• Fixed keyboard shortcut 'F2' not making the export panel appear, if you have default key
assignments
• Fixed crash re-entering a project that contains a sequence with a selective colour correction effect
• Fixed timeline of 'Focus previous source' not becoming topmost with the associated viewer
• Fixed custom metadata not being restored when upgrading an older project to 2021.1
• Fixed potential poor performance stepping through Long GOP media
• Fixed the 'Cues markers' command not doing anything on the Log tab
• Fixed potential hang at the very end of some HEVC media
• Fixed inability to delete or reveal proxies if the high-res media is offline
• Fixed the metadata panel title from being truncated when loading new assets
• Fixed crash dragging folders from the 'Local files' area over the sequence timeline
• Fixed drop-down panels appearing in the wrong place when there are stacked monitors
• Fixed incorrect name being generated on a Multicam bin created from the keyboard shortcut
• Fixed the content manager window moving slightly when dragging a bin to the desktop
• Fixed potential hang when making audio waveforms and proxies
• Fixed unreliable toggling between linear and curved line segments
• Fixed the project creation hint from appearing erroneously
• Fixed text highlighting not happening when double clicking text
• Fixed the source viewer title from being truncated unnecessarily
• Fixed back to back dissolves causing video routing problems
• Fixed potential crash when changing clip segment speed
• Fixed potential crash updating the memory usage
• Fixed potential crash importing Cineform files
• Fixed incorrect audio click at start of AAC files
• Fixed missing default keyboard assignments
o F8 should be assigned to Simple Wipes & Dissolves
o INS should be assigned to Audio Mixer
• Fixed audio/video looping on exported file when encountering a 0% audio speed change in the
sequence
• Fixed passwords containing & or @ not working when the sign in panel
• Fixed searching by today's date does not work correctly
• Fixed the context menu for a tile failing to appear
• Fixed the viewer close/cogs buttons disappearing when cutting a clip into an empty sequence
• Fixed Flip and Flop Effects not working correctly if the source clip has an implicit 180 rotation
• Fixed 'Auto' setting on the import panel not choosing the media destination drive with the most
space
• Fixed Mark/Park region being lost on a clip when minimising a viewer to a tile on the desktop
(Flexible Layout)
• Fixed renders/records failing immediately when selecting 'Auto' for the render destination
• Fixed potential hang on shutdown waiting for waveforms to generate and pixel shaders to compile
• Fixed potential failure trying to copy or export a sequence from within a bin
• Fixed issues with some DV .MOV media not playing correctly
• Fixed user interface corruption when resizing the source/record viewer (Fixed layout)
• Fixed the sequence zoom level persisting when switching between tabs (Fixed layout)
• Fixed incorrect timeline marker position after trimming a clip at the very end of a sequence
• Fixed colour-correction curves should be linear when there are only two control-points
• Fixed crash when removing the last column in the List view bin
• Fixed OMF files no longer being exported without embedded audio
Windows New Features and Fixes
This section describes the Windows new features and fixes contained in this release.
New Features:
• Added further improvements to address the issue with failure on startup due to WASAPI audio
• Improved error message when failing to launch the application when 'Controlled Folder Access' is
enabled
Fixes:
• Fixed potential failure to launch the application due to WASAPI audio
• Fixed uninstaller failing to fully remove the application
• Fixed issues with outputting PsF/P with Matrox and AJA hardware
• Fixed no audio output when audio routed through the Mix channels on the audio mixer unless the track
is solo'd
• Fixed handling of default audio device changes
• Fixed successive hold/tap keypresses not working on the numeric keypad
• Fixed handling of System Sound device selection when changing language
• Fixed potential crash when applying Fusion effect
• Fixed import browser switching back to the previous location when selecting a network folder with a
large number of items in it
• Improved handling of audio devices being added and removed
• Fixed Boris plugin effects not appearing
• Fixed potential crash if no default audio device is available
• Fixed potential hang when switching to and from surround audio devices
Linux New Features and Fixes
This section describes the Linux new features and fixes contained in this release.
New Features:
• N/A
Fixes:
• Fixed appearance of wording when running the .DEB installer
• Added missing Roboto fonts on Fedora installs
• Fixed missing console udev file
macOS New Features and Fixes
This section describes the macOS new features and fixes contained in this release.
New Features:
• N/A
Fixes:
• Fixed various connectivity issues with the Lightworks Console
• Fixed Status Window no longer showing any information or updates
• Fixed error.log showing the incorrect version number of macOS (10.16) when it should be 11.0
• Fixed no audio output when audio routed through the Mix channels on the audio mixer unless the track
is solo'd
• Fixed potential failure to start the application
• Fixed issues with the Console when trying to exit the application
• Fixed issues with AAF import/export
• Fixed ESC key not working after changing the name of a clip and reverting the change
• Fixed potential crash when applying Fusion effect
• Fixed fullscreen preview appearing in the wrong place when multiple monitors are connected
• Fixed Lightworks failing to open on systems running M1 hardware
• Fixed Gatekeeper reporting that Lightworks can't be checked for malicious software M1 (Apple Silicon)
• Fixed decoding of .MOV/.MP4 files stored on media drives with a larger than normal sector size


New in Lightworks 2021.1

This is without a doubt the biggest release of Lightworks in the last ten years! The overall foundations of the application have been rewritten with a faster and more flexible open architecture. This allows any media to be brought into a project and played at its natural size and frame-rate without being altered.
Main Features:
Universal Projects

Historically, Lightworks always suffered from a limitation: creating a project required setting a base frame rate (e.g. 24fps, 25fps, 30fps, etc.). All imported media had to match this rate: there was no way to import a 25fps clip into a 30fps project or vice versa. Additionally, clips and sequences could only play at the project frame rate, limiting flexibility and playback.
Lightworks 2021 - Universal Projects

In Lightworks 2021.1, the project frame-rate limitation has been completely removed, allowing media with any frame-rate (including variable rate) to be imported into a project, played back, logged, and added into sequences seamlessly. All source clips are played at their native frame rate, in their native shape. Once clips are inserted into a sequence, they are automatically/dynamically reframed and retimed to fit the sequence output format.

IMPORTANT Information:
Due to the complexities of removing the project frame rate, there is now limited backwards compatibility with earlier versions of Lightworks (2020.1, 14.x, etc). When opening an existing Lightworks project in 2021.1, a new copy of the project will be generated.

Any changes made using this latest version will not appear when stepping back to an earlier version of Lightworks. You will still be able to open earlier versions and gain access to these projects, but you will not see any of the changes made using 2021.1.
Lightworks 2021 - Sequence Playback Format
Sequence Playback Format

Previously the playback format within a project was governed by the 'Output format' setting on the project card. This resulted in all Clips and Sequences being played back at the project output format regardless of the native rate and/or aspect-ratio.

In Lightworks 2021.1, you can now right-click on a sequence and select the "Playback format" required.

If you require a frame-rate that’s not available in the list, then you can make a copy of the sequence and specify a new frame rate for the copy. The original sequence is left unaffected.

There is no limit to the number of sequences or the combination of playback formats, giving you the flexibility to deliver your content quickly and easily.
Resolution Preservation

Clips are no longer resized to match the project Output format. 4k/8k clips can now be viewed at the correct size - in full detail - throughout the Effects chain. In earlier versions of Lightworks clip resolution would have been discarded, resulting in poor quality images.
Custom Sequence Output Formats*

Previous versions of Lightworks limited users to broadcast output formats only. In today's world, this is extremely limiting. In 2021.1, Lightworks Pro users can now define their custom output formats. This custom format is then available for sequence output and publishing to 'H.264/MP4’, 'MOV', 'MXF', and 'AVI'.

* This option is only available when exporting with an active Lightworks Pro license.
Lightworks 2021 - Custom Sequence Output Formats
Social Media Custom Format Templates ‘Square’ and ‘Portrait’*
Lightworks 2021 - Social Media Custom Format Templates

These great new pre-built custom aspect ratios make preparing your content for social media quick and easy and can be toggled by simply right-clicking a sequence and selecting the option from the "Playback format" list.

* This option is only available when exporting with an active Lightworks Pro license.
Added ‘Associates’ Tab

This powerful new set of tools, grouped under the tab-title ‘Associates’, located below the source viewer, offers an extremely quick way of manually linking files together (User), seeing what media makes up a sequence (Constituents), and viewing any alternate variations of a loaded sequence (Versions). It is also extremely useful for determining what media makes up a sync (References) or finding any clips/subclips that are related.
Lightworks 2021 - Associates Tab

Associations can be viewed in either thumbnail or list views. The subtabs available under the ‘Associates’ tab vary depending on what asset (clip/sequence/subclip) is loaded into the source viewer above.
User Interface Improvements

This is the first major software release under the new company LWKS Software LTD, and we have taken the first step towards freshening up the interface with a colour-scheme adjustment and some new icons. A significant addition, we have also exposed several new controls within the ‘User Interface Appearance’ panel.
Lightworks 2021 - User Interface Panel

Users can now go further; in defining how they want panels, popups, buttons, tables, etc to appear, and we’ve also added the facility to adjust timeline segment colours (within the sequence timeline 'Settings' panel).
Lightworks 2021 - Timeline Settings Lightworks 2021 - Language Settings
Added Professional Language Translations

All the text within Lightworks can be altered/changed based on user preference. Bundled with all the installers we have a long list of Language preset files that are now more easily accessible to switch between.

As of 2021.1, we have added in professional language translations for:

Japanese
French
Spanish
Vietnamese
Korean

All these can be accessed by simply clicking the cogs icon on the project browser screen and opening the dropdown list next to ‘Language’’.
Proxy Generation Improvements

The proxy workflow within Lightworks is one of the simplest to use. As new codecs are added that are more hardware intensive to work with natively, it becomes ever more necessary to work with proxy files generated from these file types. In 2021.1, we have made considerable improvements when working with 4K media including H.265/HEVC media.
Added Support for macOS 11 (Big Sur)


New Features and Fixes in Version 2020.1.1

This section summarizes the fixes, enhancements, and features that have been implemented in this release of Lightworks.
Cross Platform New Features and Fixes
This section describes the cross-platform new features and fixes contained in this release.
New Features
&#9679; Updated the EULA agreement to reflect the LWKS Software LTD ownership
&#9679; Added ability to show the password on sign in panels within the application
Fixes
&#9679; Fixed YouTube uploads failing when there are non-ascii characters in the Tags section
&#9679; Fixed failure to show a warning message when entering incorrect sign in details
&#9679; Fixed potential crash revealing a MediaFileRepositoryPanel
Windows New Features and Fixes
This section describes the Windows new features and fixes contained in this release.
New Features
&#9679; N/A
Fixes
&#9679; Fixed potential crash handling and dump location so we get better analytics from Microsoft
Linux New Features and Fixes
This section describes the Linux new features and fixes contained in this release.
New Features
&#9679; N/A
Fixes
&#9679; N/A
macOS New Features and Fixes
This section describes the macOS new features and fixes contained in this release.
New Features
&#9679; N/A
Fixes
&#9679; Fixed potential crash browsing for media within ‘Local files’



Lightworks Version 2020.1 Now Available on Windows Linux and Mac!

Today we are releasing the next great version of Lightworks 2020.1 (previously named 14.6) on Windows, Linux and Mac!

This latest version adds support for importing and decoding HEVC/H.265 media natively including being able to create proxy files to work with until switching back to the Hi-Res to render/export the sequence.

Some of the other exciting new features in version 2020.1 can be seen below:

Added decode support for HEVC/H.265 files
Added ability to lasso segments on the sequence timeline
Added support for the latest versions of Ubuntu
Added ability to detect rotated phone footage and rotate it to the correct orientation automatically
Added "Libraries" heading to the Content Manager
Moved Local files import option under this heading
Moved Audio Network import option under this heading
Moved Pond5 import option under this heading
Added improvements to Audio Network integration
Media can now be imported into a project
Media can now be used in a sequence
Export is prevented if the sequence contains non purchased media
Added ability to handle still images correctly
Added new "Images" filter
Images now import at the correct scale ratio rather than being scaled to the output format
Added ability to drag an image into the sequence viewer or timeline
Removed pagination on search results
Added improvements to varispeed in Flexible layout
Added segment right-click 'Speed' menu item
Added 'Show segments speeds' option on the timeline appearance panel (to restore per-track speed widgets)
Removed per-track speed button by default
Added HD overlay to the vectorscope
Added support for browsing "Amazing Music Tracks" from within "Libraries"
Added new enhancements for Tile view bins (text now appears outside of the tile rather than overlaying the image) Fixed layout only
Added ability to generate .lvix seek files locally (previously stored next to linked media)
Added Blackmagic BRAW decode panel to the Video tab of the project card
Added UHD Media to the Media->Transcoding tab to allow for transcoding to UHD on import
Added better Keyboard shortcut handling of using standard keyboard shortcuts ie, pressing delete deletes clips
Added ability to select segments on the sequence timeline
Added ability to right click a clip containing ranged cue markers and select Make->Sequence from Cue Markers
Added better categories for Keyboard Assignments list
Added German translation wordings into the installers
Added ability to move an effect along the timeline without changing it's routing
Added ability to select multiple items then edit the text for one of the fields which now causes all rows to be updated
Added ability to apply effects to selected timeline segments
Added ability to change the size of the project thumbnail images by holding down CTRL and scrolling with the mouse wheel
Improved timeline sync-loss representation
Updated to the latest MainConcept SDK's
And much more!


Some of the exciting new features in version 2020.1 can be seen below:

Added decode support for HEVC/H.265 files (work in progress)
Added ability to lasso segments on the sequence timeline
Added "Libraries" heading to the Content Manager
Moved Local files import option under this heading
Moved Audio Network import option under this heading
Moved Pond5 import option under this heading
Added improvements to Audio Network integration
Media can now be imported into a project
Media can now be used in a sequence
Export is prevented if the sequence contains non purchased media
Added ability to handle still images correctly
Added new "Images" filter
Images now import at the correct scale ratio rather than being scaled to the output format
Added ability to drag an image into the sequence viewer or timeline
Removed pagination on search results
Added improvements to varispeed in Flexible layout
Added segment right-click 'Speed' menu item
Added 'Show segments speeds' option on the timeline appearance panel (to restore per-track speed widgets)
Removed per-track speed button by default
Added support for Ubuntu 19.04
Added ability to detect rotated phone footage and rotate it to the correct orientation automatically
Added HD overlay to the vectorscope
Added support for browsing "Amazing Music Tracks" from within "Libraries"
Added new enhancements for Tile view bins (text now appears outside of the tile rather than overlaying the image) Fixed layout only
Added "Metadata, Decode, Cue Markers and BITC" tabs from the Log layout to the Edit layout (Fixed layout only)
Added ability to generate .lvix seek files locally (previously stored next to linked media)
Added Timeline tab underneath the Viewer on the Log and Edit tabs
Added scrollbars to sequence timelines (Video and Audio tracks)
Added Blackmagic BRAW decode panel to the Video tab of the project card
Added UHD Media to the Media->Transcoding tab to allow for transcoding to UHD on import
Added ability to switch between a Simple search and an Advanced search on the Search panel
Added better Keyboard shortcut handling of using standard keyboard shortcuts ie, pressing delete deletes clips
Added ability to select segments on the sequence timeline
Added ability to right click a clip containing ranged cue markers and select Make->Sequence from Cue Markers
Added ability to continue an interrupted transcode task
Added option 'remove from bin' to the deletion panel
Added keyboard key assignment for adding a VFX keyframe
Added compound effect to incorporate image-matte and blend (ie. a single-node image-key)
Added better categories for Keyboard Assignments list
Added German translation wordings into the installers
Added ability to move an effect along the timeline without changing it's routing
Added 'Modification date' for audio only files on the filecard
Added ability to reorder filecard metadata items for all log types (previously it was only possible for V/A clips)
Added ability to use torn-off timecodes using the left mouse button
Added ability to select multiple items then edit the text for one of the fields which now causes all rows to be updated
Added ability to apply effects to selected timeline segments
Added "Region" option to the AAF export panel
Added 'selected segments' to the sequence copy panel
Added ability to right-click an Effect node and choose 'Replace with >'
Added ability to right click the video routing panel to add a new node
Added ability to change the import method for audio only files on the batch import panel
Added support for 100fps media in a 24fps project
Added ability to change the size of the project thumbnail images by holding down CTRL and scrolling with the mouse wheel
Added keyboard shortcut assignment for moving focus to the record sequence or source clip
Added ability to make milestones much easier to resurrect
Added visible media file name/extension to the file path
Improved timeline sync-loss representation
Updated to the latest MainConcept SDK's
And much more!


Fixes and Features in Version 14.5

* "Cross Platform Fixes and Features"
* "Windows Fixes and Features"
* "Linux Fixes and Features"
* "Mac OS Fixes and Features"
Cross Platform Fixes and Features
* "New Features"
* "Fixes"
New Features
* Added export option to Reaper (Lightworks Pro only)
* Added support for Exporting/Transcoding/Rendering to Cineform HD/UHD AVI/MOV (Lightworks Pro
Only)
* Added varispeed information to FCP7 XML exports (Lightworks Pro Only)
* Added reverse varispeed information to XML exports (Lightworks Pro Only)
* Added export quality setting to the JPEG image sequence option (Lightworks Pro Only)
* Added export format option for Free users "H.246/MP4 (Free)"
* Added support for decode of Cineform codecs
* Added support for AC-3 audio in mp4/mov/m4v/m4a wrappers
* Added support of variable frame rate fles (.mov .mp4, .m4v)
* Added Histogram graph to the Video Tools panel
* Added Frame Rate search criteria to the Content Manager
* Added ability to "slide" an efect crossfade trim so that the trim can be moved up/down the timeline
without damaging the sequence as it currently does
* Added ability to drag a dissolve up of removing it like when right clicking and selecting "Remove"
* Added new Italians wording fle to the installer (Courtesy of Carmelo Batagglia)
* Added ability to scroll the sequence timeline without changing the current timeline marker position
* Added ability to adjust RED R3D RAW metadata parameters (.rmd)
 Added individual clip R3D decode settings panel next to the Metadata panel in Log view
 Added project wide R3D Decode settings to the Video tab of the project card
* Added 16-bit GPU precision replacing 10-bit
* Added ability to acknowledge project wide LUT setting on export
* Added ability to set a Ranged Cue Marker (Start and End point)
* Added ability to restore deleted clips from Milestones (which restores the entire clip with media link)
* Added preliminary support for Blackmagic RAW fles
 On Windows: Open a command prompt with admin rights and do regsvr32 "C:Program
FilesBlackmagic DesignDaVinci ResolveBlackmagicRawAPI.dll"
 On Mac: Show the Resolve.app package contents and copy the BlackmagicRawAPI.framework
to /Library/Frameworks
* Added new confg.dat parameters:
 "u
* Added new pixel-shader variables
 foat _OutputFPS; // eg. 24.0, 25.0, 29.97, etc
 foat _Length; // Length of the efect in secs
 foat _LengthFrames // Length of the efect in frames
* Added support for media structures:
 Added support for XDCAM HD folder structure
 Added support for AVCHD folder structure
 Added support for GFCAM folder structure
 Added support for JVC folder structure
 Added support for IkegamiFieldPak
 Added support for GOPRO/FlipVideo/Canon folder structures
 Added support for chunked Canon XF clips
* Enhanced the timeline "Appearance" option and changed the name to "Settings"
 Added new "Behaviour" tab the timeline "Settings" panel
 Added ability to Enable/Disable 'Safe' trimming (disabling safe trimming allows cuts to be
extended beyond its boundaries)
 Added ability to set timeline 'segment_drag_size'(previously a confg.dat entry)
* Enhanced the Media tab of the Project Card
 Added ability to set Proxy creation settings
 Added ability to set Transcode settings (Now removed from the Import cogs menu)
* Added support for creating proxies from 60fps media
* Added 'Reveal > Media fles' on timeline segments
* Added right click "Render" option for clips in the sequence timeline in both layouts. Render button has
been removed from the timeline in Flexible layout
* Added new trimming functionality to prevent a trim being extended beyond the media available at the
head or tail
* Added support for Quicktime MOV fles with Alpha Channels
* Added an "Alignment" option on the BITC panel to prevent text appear in the wrong area
* Added ability for title efect text to appear as a comment in EDL's (32 character limit)
* Added ability to export a bin of contents to XML and JSON
* Added ability to trim on the VFX tab
* Added ability to copy multiple sequences in one go from a bin
* Added improved selection between bins in List and Tiles view
* Added improvements to the ELS messaging system
* Added keyboard shortcut command for "Step midnight sequence number"
* Added keyboard shortcut command for creating Sync(s)
* Added keyboard shortcut commands for 'clipboard insert/replace & next'
* Added keyboard shortcut function for making a new Content Manager
* Added keyboard shortcut commands "Next cut" and "Previous cut" that ignores: Marks, Cues, etc
* Added keyboard shortcut function for toggling timeline zoom
* Added keyboard shortcut key "Cue Marker (no prompt)"
* Added warning prior to resetting Key assignments
* Added ability to allow users to register an account while still running the automatic Free license
* Added support for handling .MOD and .TOD fles
* Added quality setting options for CineForm on the Export/Render/Transcode panel
* Added ability to create proxies for fles shorter than a second using I-Frame codecs (Cineform, AVCIntra)
* Added new feature to allow customisation of timeline mouse behaviour
* Added improvements for transcoded chunked XDCAM media
* Added support for AAC 32 foat audio
* Added more available space next to the sequence name on the viewer, so that clip name is not
truncated
* Added ability to make a batch of Syncs from ranged sequence Cue Markers
* Added ability to manage user export presets
* Added amount of space required for an Archive to the project backup panel
* Added BITC preferences to the "Preferences" folder moved from the project ED5
* Added ability to duplicate sequences and place them in a target bin (in one step) including a "new bin"
* Added ability to set H.264 proxy bit rate according to quality level setting
* Added the ability to right-click a clip and choose 'Make -> Sequence'
* Added the ability to make syncs from sequence segments
* Added ability to set the size of the thumbnails on the FX panel
* Added 8bit and 10bit options to DPX Image Sequence export
* Added ability to log black frames during export
* Added new ability to recreate missing linked media. "Media -> Repair"
* Added Apple ProRes XQ to decode formats
* Added deletion date to the milestones recovery panel (The displayed 'deletion date' will only be
correct for items deleted from now on)
* Improved audio transitions written into XML exports
* Improved media-fle defnitions for audio-only fles in XML exports
* Improved AAF error codes to give helpful messages
* Improved display of low resolution proxies for interlaced material
* Improved thumbnail rendering speeds for H.264 MP4/MOV fles
* Improved Audio Network media check
* Improved the "Create folders for clips" option on the Image Sequence export
Fixes
* Fixed various issues surrounding media management
 Media fles are now moved correctly
 Proxy fles are now moved and not deleted
 Index fles are now moved
* Fixed potential crash clicking Undo multiple times after deleting all the keyframes on a Curves efect
 Audio waveform fles are no longer deleted when moving fles
* Fixed AAF export potentially failing if the sequence contains a dissolve at the very start
* Fixed potential crash importing an AAF containing dissolves
* Fixed Blend efect not removing the Alpha channel on clips that contain one
* Fixed colour shift when playing back DPX sequences
* Fixed invalid hyperlinks in the export log when the flename contains an '=' character
* Fixed copy/paste on Clipboard timeline not always work as expected
* Fixed potential crash moving mouse over a tile
* Fixed incorrect display of 960x720 anamorphic MP4 media
* Fixed Efects nodes not always reconnecting correctly after removing a node
* Fixed P2 AVC-Intra 'CONTENTS' folder causing all other media fles alongside it to be hidden
* Fixed 'Find clip to fll sequence' not working if the clip has 32 or more characters as the Reel ID
* Fixed deformed image and/or black frames on a clip after cancelling a transcode during fle import
* Fixed The 'Make subclip' key assignment not working on Prints
* Fixed Lightworks.archive restores not restoring all the media links
* Fixed Clipboard .ed5 growing very large over time afecting project performance
* Fixed Unicode text copied from a Lightworks text-entry box not being correct when pasted
* Fixed potential crash clicking undo after adding and grouping video tracks
* Fixed Unicode BITC text not showing correctly
* Fixed crash making an audio only Kemroll from audio only fles
* Fixed potential crash deleting a project with a corrupt .odb fle
* Fixed Incorrect duration/speed for image-sequences in 25fps projects
* Fixed auto switching from Edit to VFX tab when dragging out an inline efect to it's own FX track (Fixed
layout)
* Fixed crash after using 'Make source into sequence' (Flexible layout)
* Fixed creating a sequence of matches from the fnd matching clips panel from removing crossfades
* Fixed archives containing multiple copies of the same fle
* Fixed foating Bins appearing in Fixed layout when dragging them outside the interface window
* Fixed drag and drop of a Stereoscopic clip to a sequence not creating a sequence with a V1/2
* Fixed create-link imports requiring forcible extraction not being revealed in the interface
* Fixed odd behaviour importing a folder of clips more than once
* Fixed AAF from AVID Media Composer not importing with the correct start timecode for V1 clips
* Fixed potential crash changing the "Fullscreen preview monitor" setting
* Fixed dropped frames on playback and audio drifting out of sync
* Fixed the 'Make subclip' command not working for syncs
* Fixed user interface not ftting correctly on 1366x768 monitors in Fixed layout
* Fixed Fullscreen display not displaying a video when frst entering a project
* Fixed incorrect clip length in mixed rate projects, resulting in distorted audio and incorrect clip lengths
and waveforms
* Fixed misleading error message when exporting an archive to a location that is no longer available
* Fixed black frames at the end of XDCAM MXF fles
* Fixed timecode not being continuous on .MP3 audio imports
* Fixed Drag/drop of transition to head of sequence not always working
* Fixed Vectorscope YCrCb tab showing the incorrect information when giving focus to a tile in a bin
* Fixed the appearance of the out-point on the timeline for new sequences (with no defned length)
* Fixed appearance of image-matte thumbnails on the routing panel (for non-matching aspect-ratios)
* Fixed video routing panel not coming to the front when clicked on (Flexible Layout)
* Fixed incorrect colour on exported AVCHD fles
* Fixed incorrect sequence created when popping a tile out of a sequence viewer
* Fixed alpha value resetting hue/saturation on colour efects
* Fixed inconsistent menu lists appearing through other panels
* Fixed Key assignments panel not updating correctly after adding a macro
* Fixed "Cue Marker' shortcut not working from inside a macro
* Fixed Ofine audio-only clips not showing as 'Ofine'
* Fixed Lightworks Pro features requiring a software restart after upgrading from Lightworks Free to
Lightworks Pro
* Fixed align marks when more than one track is unjoined
* Fixed bin modifcation handling in shared projects
* Fixed timecode not appearing when inserting a clip into a new empty sequence (fexible layout)
* Fixed out-point calculation error when generating Fusion comp fles from multi-segment timelines
* Fixed Clipboard Source keyboard shortcut key not working as expected
* Fixed AAF exports with embedded audio
* Fixed reading of PCM audio on AVI sample fles
* Fixed issues dragging the record sequence to the source viewer
* Fixed incorrect image on Fullscreen output after closing and re opening after moving the timeline
marker
* Fixed incorrect number of frames reported for still images on the list of sources on Assistant
Applications
* Fixed the import panel opening larger than the screen (Flexible Layout)
* Fixed possible crash deleting the last cue in an edit / clip
* Fixed sequence cues in 24 fps project
* Fixed additional added V track breaking multicam syncing on sequences
* Fixed potential hang changing the video output format
* Fixed decoding of 16bit DPX fles
* Fixed and tidied Play Quality settings (proxy usage)
* Fixed Search panel on the content manager jumping up the screen when switching between Logs and
Bins tabs
* Fixed 'Clip References' panel LEDs showing as dimmed
* Fixed channel enumeration (crash) if calling verifyClipLength() for a clip that has levels tracks
* Fixed audio level adjustment using the mouse scroll wheel in the sequence timeline
* Fixed Audio Waveforms not matching the audio during playback (waveform fles .lpks will need
deleting)
* Fixed playback of clips containing an Alpha channel when the Blend Efect is applied
* Fixed Table-view bin selections not being cleared when clicking in the empty space below the last item
(Flexible Layout)
* Fixed potential crash pressing ALT+1
* Fixed potential hang importing multiple fles at the same time
* Fixed ALE import failing to match metadata with the actual media
* Fixed very slow analysis of MXF audio on the import panel
* Fixed hang restoring a Lightworks.archive when using a shared project space
* Fixed potential hang entering a classic shared project
* Fixed import/playback of 60fps media in a 24fps project
* Fixed issue where a new empty room is created automatically when re entering a project
* Fixed incorrect viewer timecode after changing output format (when showing 'Total duration')
* Fixed clip labels panels not updating when changing the video output format
* Fixed EDL generation options not being saved into an export preset
* Fixed user interface not updating after adjusting audio levels with the mouse wheel during playback
* Fixed sequence copies not being revealed correctly in the Content Manager
* Fixed timeline marker jumping to the end of a sequence after adding an audio crossfade when zoomed
in
* Fixed inability to tab between diferent felds on the metadata panel
* Fixed background colour selection (HSV) on BITC panel not working
* Fixed BITC not being updated when adding/modifying a Cue Marker
* Fixed BITC text colour not matching between the settings panel and what is shown in the viewer
* Fixed Colour setting on BITC overlay not working in Flexible layout
* Fixed The BITC text on viewer not always showing the correct Cue Marker information
* Fixed Cue Marker timecodes showing as '???' for subclips
* Fixed subclip cues do not appearing when using 'show clip cues'
* Fixed 'Show clip cues' not working for clips without video
* Fixed incorrect duration of ranged markers when showing clip cues in a sequence
* Fixed The output from 'List sources' not being useful when using image-sequences
* Fixed inactive hyperlinks for rendered clips (on the Task log)
* Fixed 'Reveal > Media fles' option missing in fxed layout
* Fixed text selection not being visible when renaming Bins/Groups
* Fixed inability to copy audio levels from one clip to another
* Fixed The 'unjoin assistance' indicators not updating when the ALT key is pressed (or released)
* Fixed labels panel not updating when switching between drop/non-drop timecode
* Fixed degraded image quality on exported fles
* Fixed issue where an Alpha channel is not removed on playback
* Fixed inability to sort tile-view bins by Modifcation date
* Fixed the Select All button on the Local Files import panel not working
* Fixed sequence viewer window not updating after applying a letterbox
* Fixed crash when moving the Image Efect within a sequence with the video routing open
* Fixed Project name changing after opening the project card to the Details tab then switching to
another tab and typing
* Fixed Fullscreen playback not allowing switching to another clip when moving the mouse to the top of
the screen to open the current bin
* Fixed User key assignments for ALT 1/2/3 disappearing on application restart
* Fixed icons on tiles dragged out of table-view bins not appearing (until the tile is dropped and the
mouse moves away and back again)
* Fixed crash switching bins when a tile contained in the bin is playing
* Fixed crash adding more than 16 Video tracks to a sequence
* Fixed BITC panel not updating when loading a new BITC layout
* Fixed inability to apply a BITC layout to a sequence that has never had BITC
* Fixed inability to switch between sequences in fullscreen playback
* Fixed potential crash encountering an invalid audio efect
* Fixed potential crash during rendering or exporting
* Fixed Mark All function not showing the correct "Out" mark
* Fixed Playback stopping completely when mixing audio using the mouse wheel
* Fixed potential crash after dragging from the source viewer to a bin (Fixed layout)
* Fixed sequence name on the viewer not updating when changing the name on the timeline section
* Fixed not all frames showing when stepping through varispeeded (slow) clips with high frame rate
material
* Fixed inability to trim grouped audio when "Auto track sync" is disabled and audio is present on A1 but
not on A2
* Fixed blue clip name at the top of a sequence viewer not updating if the current clip is renamed
* Fixed incorrect embedded AAF exports when the sample rate was set to something other than "Keep
Original"
* Fixed analysis of areas trimmed beyond their boundaries and replace with black correctly in AAF
generation
* Fixed the 'dragged-in' ramps on the left/right of audio segments not being exported in the AAF as
crossfades from/to silence
* Fixed crash entering a project after upgrading from a Free license to a Pro license
* Fixed Start timecode no longer being read from Quicktime (.MOV) fles
* Fixed inability to delete a single clip from a Bin
* Fixed sequence locking not working in shared projects
* Fixed inability to sort by clicking the column heading on import panel
* Fixed "Clip Cues" not showing up when the same section is used repeatedly in a sequence
* Fixed Invalid Sync (All) being created from a sequence containing an FX track
* Fixed Audio glitch during playback of AAC audio
* Fixed only the L channel playing instead of L/R when soloing a Mix bus
* Fixed Sequence viewer jumping to a new position after performing a trim
* Fixed Start timecode not being read and identifed from some sample fles (.MP4/.MOV)
* Fixed potential crash importing a folder containing an archive
* Fixed timecode calculator number buttons not working when in OVR mode
* Fixed Archives failing to restore correctly
* Fixed "Show Clip Cues" having the wrong position after a speed change
* Fixed redraw error after extending the last cut in a sequence
* Fixed appearance of RED 2K formats appearing duplicated in the export panel
* Fixed Labels panel appearing in front of torn of timecode labels
* Fixed corrupt led icon on the voice-over panel
* Fixed crash customising the table-view columns
* Fixed playback works as expected, but the playhead not moving after a trim
* Fixed 'Media date' showing incorrectly for items imported via Drag/Drop
* Fixed 4k outputs not being available on Decklink 4k
* Fixed Timeline marker not playing after trimming the frst clip in a sequence using CTRL and drag
* Fixed potential crash on exiting the application
* Fixed incorrect waveforms for subclips with varispeed
* Fixed 'Close Gap' function not always working
* Fixed BITC tab switching not working when the sequence has an FX track
* Fixed XML FCP7 exports no longer importing into FCP7
* Fixed Subclips/Syncs created from cues not being highlighted/selected
* Fixed potential crash during export (various reports)
* Fixed clip Cue Marker being temporarily renamed and repainted in the sequence
* Fixed adjusting audio nodes using the mouse-wheel only working the frst time
* Fixed all the items being selected when mousing over them after right clicking a sequence/clip in a
user generated bin
* Fixed Drag/drop of multiple bin clips to a sequence viewer not working
* Fixed black appearing at the end of a sequence erroneously after clicking undo after a trim
* Fixed incorrect image on Blackmagic output when playing a ProRes tile
* Fixed crash on exit if material is being fetched over a VPN
* Fixed viewer fashing when changing output quality setting
* Fixed crash dragging a sequence tile to a sequence viewer and then pressing the Record button
* Fixed Disabling 'show levels' in the timeline options preventing 'post levels' waveform display from
working
* Fixed deleting V1 causing sequence markers to be lost
* Fixed CTRL+right drag (for drag-in-black) causing timeline to move slightly
* Fixed drag-in black not working at the head of an FX track
* Fixed typing quickly on the numpad not working properly
* Fixed drag-in black at the head of a sequence not afecting all relevant tracks when 'auto track sync' is
enabled
* Fixed incorrect audio waveforms for Subclips in sequences
* Fixed potential crash/hang during a render operation
* Fixed issues with embedded AAF exports being incorrect
* Fixed persistence setting the timeline segment drag size to 66%
* Fixed incorrect unjoin indicators for grouped tracks when 'auto track sync' is disabled
* Fixed potential crash importing an embedded AAF
* Fixed duplicated picture segments exporting to .MP4 fle
* Fixed 'Add to' from a content manager flter (to a target project) not working
* Fixed 8-bit image processing being used when adding more efects
* Fixed proxy settings on the panel not showing the actual settings
* Fixed Bins highlighting incorrectly in the content manager when dragging a bin out of a group
* Fixed pop out original shortcut cut not working on an audio only clip containing just an A1 track
* Fixed The 'background task completed' message appearing after aborting a task
* Fixed pop out original function not showing the correctly marked region after deleting a Cue Marker
* Fixed timeline not redrawing correctly after increasing the speed of a segment
* Fixed "overlapping clips" error message due to incorrect FCP7 XML exports to FCP7
* Fixed Embedded/Separate fles option not being respected for MXF exports
* Fixed Audio Efects panel not opening when clicking the Efects button on the sequence timeline IF the
video track above contains an efect and the track is deselected out
* Fixed imports of AVID DNxHD exports from Resolve
* Fixed potential crashing using Fit-to-fll
* Fixed crash importing Yi 4k+ sample fle
* Fixed potential crash attempting to export to an unsupported DV format
* Fixed torn of timecodes not working on an open labels panel (Flexible layout)
* Fixed potential crash opening a project in Flexible layout
* Fixed Twin playing function (ALT 2 and ALT 1) not working
* Fixed Fit-to-fll inserting audio at the incorrect speed
* Fixed slow import of a folder containing H.264 MP4 fles when using Create Link
* Fixed crash using twin-play with a clip from the Recent->Current flter
* Fixed hundreds of fles being copied locally instead of the selected few with image-sequences
* Fixed crash and fatal memory corruption rendering to "2k 1:85:1 24fps, MOV, DVCPRO100"
* Fixed dragging/dropping a timeline segment onto the sequence viewer not subsequently removing
the dropped item
* Fixed crash and fatal memory corruption rendering to 2k 1:85:1 24fps, MOV, DVCPRO100
* Fixed flecard not updating correctly when dragging a sequence tile into a sequence viewer
* Fixed crash attempting to show video routing when an Audio Network thumbnail is highlighted
* Fixed Cue Markers being removed unexpectedly
* Fixed "Make sync" function not working (with exactly two clips)
* Fixed Adding an efect to a clip then rendering proxies having undesired results
* Fixed onscreen console not working the frst time you create a project (Flexible layout)
* Fixed panel shadows becoming detached (Flexible layout)
* Fixed potential crash entering a project in Fixed layout that had multicam bins
* Fixed issue where material cookies with lowercase letters in the name would cause 'media ofine'
* Fixed audio levels jumping to a new position after boosting the level
* Fixed Subclips created from Syncs being incorrect
* Fixed saving Cue Markers to a specifc location causing the "OK" button to grey out
* Fixed incorrect image on DPX exports
* Fixed potential failure during AAF export
* Fixed Cue Marker dialog box changing wrong cue marker name
* Fixed multicam sequence creation panel breaking when source clips have long names
* Fixed the selective colour-correction panel not being tall enough
* Fixed missing Efect duplication menu option
* Fixed inability to use the mouse for live cutting
* Fixed potential crash undoing a track deletion
* Fixed blank hardware output test panel
* Fixed ability to paste timecodes
* Fixed timecode on cue marker panel appearing as '???' on syncs
* Fixed Filecard corruption when navigating the timeline
* Fixed Subclips made from Syncs not showing any metadata in a List view bin
* Fixed sequence timeline jumping to a new position when lassoing audio nodes (Flexible layout)
* Fixed audio waveforms on subclips made from syncs not appearing on the sequence timeline
* Fixed crash changing BITC Cue name
* Fixed crash after clicking on 'Sequence' tab on the BITC panel
* Fixed hang during proxy creation when deleting a proxy fle while other proxies are being generated
* Fixed potential crash deleting the last item in a project
* Fixed multi track audio restoring from an archive and appearing ofine
* Fixed proxy creation failing without an error message when there is not enough hard drive space
available
* Fixed "Make Proxy" option being greyed out on the Media panel
* Fixed issue with audio media being ofine after importing as Transcode
* Fixed Image sequence exports (except DPX) producing invalid images
* Fixed incorrect name sufx for syncs generated from a bin
* Fixed complications surrounding deleting rooms with the same name
* Fixed 'Cycle Inputs' having no visible efect if the viewer is in static update mode
* Fixed inability to move the fullscreen preview to the non-primary monitor
* Fixed hang opening the Room list if invalid fles are encountered
* Fixed segments in the sequence timeline suddenly disappearing
* Fixed removal of an efect leaving a solid black segment on the timeline
* Fixed "Cycle efects input" shortcut not working on the video routing panel
* Fixed incorrect speed change via 'Resize' with grouped tracks
* Fixed crash ungrouping a group within a group which has been torn of to the desktop
* Fixed incorrect size calculations on archive/backup panel
* Fixed unjoin mouse cursors not appearing
* Fixed small clip segments on the timeline that cannot be unjoined when set to 'Default' drag region
size
* Fixed "Take" missing from the list of available segments texts on the timeline
* Fixed 8bit DPX exports showing on the import panel with the incorrect colour until the image is clicked
on
* Fixed inability to export from a sequence containing a speed changed image sequence which was
created in an earlier version that allowed the sequence to extend beyond the end of the clip
* Fixed Bins/Groups not opening in the content manager when receiving logs from another project
* Fixed audio trimming being unacceptably slow
* Fixed FX Settings panel not updating correctly when dragging a sequence tile into an open sequence
viewer
* Fixed User Interface corruption resizing panels in Fixed layout
* Fixed Media locations scanning twice causing clips to show as having a proxy when they do not
* Fixed Kemrolls not working correctly with separate video/audio
* Fixed reading of Resolve V210 AVI fles
* Fixed ofine activation producing an invalid e2c fle
* Fixed timeline marker jumping to a new position after fxing track sync
* Fixed Syncs made from audio only sequences not showing the correct timecode in a List view bin
* Fixed incorrect audio playback of multi channel .MP4 fles
* Fixed content manager opening to the correct flter after performing a search
* Fixed Images are not coalesced into a sequence when imported via drag/drop inside a folder
* Fixed potential crash clicking the red timeline sync button
* Fixed potential crash playing back Audio Network media when synced with the record sequence
* Fixed Relink/Repair media option for the sequence
* Fixed Speed change via 'resize' is incorrect with grouped tracks (Flexible layout)
* Fixed Trimview not enabling when unjoining audio clip with track sync enabled
* Fixed XML exports when encountering invalid transitions during export
* Fixed XML import not generating a valid sequence
* Fixed inability to select individual audio nodes using CTRL click
* Fixed nodes disappearing on the Video Routing panel
* Fixed Keyframe graphs not correct after sliding the visible window
* Fixed incorrect length on Blender AVI exports
* Fixed potential incorrect image on Trimview
* Fixed .MP4 sample fle importing with no audio
* Fixed potential incorrect varispeed display following a rejoin
* Fixed missing audio node options from the timeline context menu
* Fixed material replaced with black showing green during export
* Fixed naming on newly created empty Groups not working correctly
* Fixed incorrect Shark hint referring to transcoding
* Fixed popped out tiles from a non-record sequence not being visible at the top of the bin
* Fixed incorrect preview image on the Routing panel on the Image Key Efect
* Fixed performance problems when zooming with show waveforms enabled
* Fixed incorrect corner-gradient efect when not connected to a track/clip
* Fixed potential crash creating projects with invalid machine number
* Fixed source viewer with marked section losing content
* Fixed crash after importing a clip with a date earlier than Jan 1970
* Fixed crash when media fle paths are longer than 100 characters
* Fixed freezes during playback from footage created with EyeFrame converter
* Fixed various issues with XML import
* Fixed GOP length not being set to the recommended value for YouTube uploads
* Fixed YouTube upload functionality
* Fixed Audio/Video resync option not appearing when unjoining a cut
* Fixed timeline marker jumping to the wrong place in the sequence when starting to trim with multiple
audio tracks
* Fixed decoding of 32bit RED R3D audio
* Fixed MPEG1 layer2 audio in .MPG fles not importing
* Fixed media location names not appearing on the search tool
* Fixed out of sync audio on Panasonic LUMIX DMC-FT1 .MOV fles
* Fixed potential crash loading an Audio Mixer confguration
* Fixed clip duplication when dragging and dropping a folder containing clips in subfolders
* Fixed crash clicking the pop out original icon on a viewer containing a subclip
* Fixed potential click on audio playback when pressing Play/Stop
* Fixed compression quality on YouTube/Vimeo/H.264/MP4 exports
* Fixed DVD PAL exports in a 24fps project failing with "Unsupported format"
* Fixed poor audio quality on YouTube/Vimeo/H.264 exports
* Fixed MPEG-1 Layer2 audio in .MPG fles not importing
* Fixed proxy setting not being used correctly in newly created projects
* Fixed crash moving Mackie fader when there are unjoined tracks
* Fixed crash moving a Mackie fader after mixing and closing a sequence
* Fixed crash after chord-clicking a bin into a closed torn of rack
* Fixed overlapping minimise/close buttons on torn of racks
* Fixed scrollbar disappearing on torn of racks after minimising/restoring
* Fixed Bins not being removed from torn of racks when deleted via the content manager
* Fixed "Replace with" function on efects dissolves
* Fixed viewers showing black when importing an XML with no media
* Fixed potential crash importing an AAF/XML
* Fixed poor audio quality on YouTube/Vimeo/H.264 exports
* Fixed progress notifcation when uploading to YouTube/Vimeo
* Fixed no audio on .MP4 fles with audio sample rate under 44.1 kHz
* Fixed saved BITC layouts not being restored on other sequences correctly
* Fixed marks not being preserved when double-clicking tiles into existing viewers (when 'link bin tiles to
viewers' is disabled)
* Fixed potential crash moving the mouse over a tile as it begins to play
* Fixed trimming being enabled on a source sequence when a record sequence is already open
* Fixed audio delay setting on the Audio tab of the project card preventing audio from being heard
* Fixed playback of .MP4 audio streams consisting of multiple stereo pairs
* Fixed pasting of text into the Group name in the content manager which can get lost if the mouse is
moved beyond the bounds of the Bins section
* Fixed crash clicking the Filecard icon on a sequence viewer after emptying the viewer by clicking the
"Pop out tile" icon (Flexible layout)
* Fixed Timeline Actions settings disabling context menu over cut point when resetting to default
* Fixed playback continuing after shuttling with the jog wheel on the Shuttle Pro
* Fixed Image key efect changing unexpectedly from Alpha 0 to Alpha 1
* Fixed incorrect display of a torn of Group
* Fixed audio location option on the export panel becoming active when switching through output
formats
* Fixed playback of XDCAM/AVCintra MXF media
* Fixed potential crash loading an audio mix which was saved from a system with more hardware
outputs than the current one
* Fixed no audio being present on exported fles when using Mix 1, 2 or 3 on the audio mixer
* Fixed incorrect audio waveforms on reversed segments
* Fixed issue where fxing track sync on a sequence would fail
* Fixed inability to copy an Efect from a source sequence to a record sequence
* Fixed the speed setting for a grouped audio track only afecting the frst track
* Fixed undo/redo not showing the correct info on the sequence timeline after audio mixer changes
* Fixed sluggish updates when moving the mouse over the timeline during playback
* Fixed crash clicking the 'Pop out tile" button on missing media
* Fixed still image imports being the wrong duration if the setting is changed
* Fixed audio distortion when EQ high shelf flter is applied to audio only clips that require sample rate
conversion (e.g. 44100 material)
* Fixed inability to add more than two items to the Audio Network cart
* Fixed table view bins showing the incorrect name for sequences generated by 'fnd > clips to fll
sequence'
* Fixed Audio mixer settings not being applied/altered correctly
* Fixed dissolves being inadvertently added in the wrong place if the track is deselected
* Fixed constraints are not being applied to params e.g. (bit rate settings) for exports
* Fixed unhelpful track sync loss warnings
* Fixed audio crackles, pops and distortion when scrubbing
* Fixed incorrect behaviour using Twin-play whilst trimming
* Fixed incorrect behaviour when copying audio levels from one track to another
* Fixed the 'Align' option sometimes not appearing from the timeline menu
* Fixed sequence back up not being created before performing 'align > video with audio'
* Fixed the application minimise button to work only on mouse 'up' and not mouse 'down'
* Fixed viewer timecode bar showing inconsistent length after inserting a clip then clicking Undo
* Fixed crash highlighting a text entry within the colour settings within the BITC panel and then clicking
away
* Fixed timeline marker sticking to the end of a sequence after shift dragging the timeline marker
beyond the edge of the timeline
* Fixed Audio Mixer panel not updating when loading a confguration
* Fixed Capacity/Space being reported inaccurately for drives larger than one terabyte
* Fixed default console key assignment when using the confg.dat entry
* Fixed Mackie Mixer not refreshing when loading a saved audio mixer confguration
* Fixed BITC saved layouts not being restored correctly
* Fixed potential crash dragging a tile from an open bin to another instance of the same open bin
* Fixed 'Show frame reuse' feature enabling itself automatically when aligning video and audio
* Fixed Solo and Mute settings on the audio mixer panel not being restored from a saved audio
confguration
* Fixed crash using 'Clipboard Insert' shortcut key during playback
* Fixed crash after moving a tile within its current bin (fxed mode)
* Fixed tiles disappearing from both bins when dragging from a tiles-view bin to a list-view bin
* Fixed failure when copying logs from one project to another
* Fixed export of transitions in XML exports
* Fixed export of transitions between two varispeeded clips in XML exports
* Fixed export of 0% varispeed clips in XML exports
* Fixed tiles temporarily disappearing from bins following a resize
* Fixed trimview showing the incorrect images after trimming with keyboard shortcuts J or L
* Fixed inability to delete a sequence in Fixed layout if it was created using the "Make->Sequence from
selection" option
* Fixed incorrect clip information in XML exports causing failures to import in other NLEs
* Fixed trimview image fashing grey after trimming with the J or L shortcut keys
* Fixed Alt+V not working as expected when the source clip is a still image
* Fixed inability to group video tracks if there are already audio track groups (and vice versa)
* Fixed potential auto scaling issue with the Image-key efect being incorrect
* Fixed audio not being playable on MXF Op1A sample
* Disabled "In-camera flm speed" setting on the Film tab of the project card
* Removed YUYV compression option from MOV exports
* Removed MXF option on the transcode panel
* Removed YUYV compression option from MOV exports
* Removed MXF option on the transcode panel
* Removed 10bit 'bit depth' option on the H.264/MP4 export option
* Removed the term "Rack" from the apply audio mix panel when working with torn of Groups
* Removed Cineform 480p settings on proxy creation as it is not supported by Cineform
* Resurrected the "Fix sync" functionality ( now 'Align > Video and audio' )
* Resurrected the Render functionality in the (Fixed layout)
* Resurrected the timeline sync function in Fixed layout
* Reverted change to EQ flter and replaced behaviour to a confg entry: 'ShowSRCSetting'
* Restored Uncompressed options for MOV/AVI options on the Render and Transcode panels
* Prevented BITC labels being deselected when clicking below the last label
* Prevented ability to reverse a timeline segment without record status
* Prevented local media from being included in an archive/backup when including only linked media
* Avoid switching to the VFX tab after replacing a transition in fxed layout
* Increased the limit of undo/redo's in a project to a default of 20
* Audio Efects can now be added to the Favourites list (Flexible layout)
* Adding video tracks now respects stereoscopic sequences
* Leading/trailing blank lines are now saved/restored correctly in Title efects
* Now respect the 'PGUP' keyboard shortcut in fxed layout mode
* The list of available Fonts is not sorted correctly
* The timeline's visible region is now saved/restored when doing undo/redo
* Transition style efects now always use proportional resizing
* BITC layouts can no longer be saved with duplicate names
* Video Tools and Audio Mixer panel can now be set as top most
* DecoupleEditBackups confg entry is now disabled
* Now report timecode for missing material when rendering
* Failed in-application registrations now report a sensible error message
* Inhibited ability to be able to alter a sync on it's own timeline
* The 'Add' button on the cue panel now adds a ranged cue if a mark/park is present
* Pressing ENTER after typing text in the Cue panel pop out now hides the Cue panel
* Torn-of timecode labels now respect the editability of the item that you try to apply them to
* Now generate better clip names for image-sequences with entirely numeric flenames
* Now grey out Delete Project option if the project is occupied
* Shift+clicking the content manager icon now creates a new content manager
* The commands 'bin : next tile' and 'bin : previous tile' now do something useful when the current bin
does not contain the source clip
* Auto-highlighting flecard clip/sequence name has now been removed
* Jumping to next/previous events (a/s) now stop at the out-points of ranged cues
* Disabled AVID DNxHR formats for MXF exports
* Notes feld on the metadata panel now saves after pressing Enter
* Audio mixer is now readily revealed when hidden behind other windows (Flexible layout)
* Room list now opens after restoring an archive to be able to select the room the archive was created in
* Changed 'Copy to' option on a Bin menu is now 'Add to'
* Made a clearer visual representation of a bin item selection and a text edit selection
* Dragging a sequence tile to the sequence record viewer now performs a swap rather than a
Replace/Insert
* Export tasks now run sequentially rather then up to two in parallel
* Deselected audio tracks are now remembered when exiting the application and restarting in Fixed
layout
* Undo/Redo icons are now restored to the Audio layout
* Mark All function now ignores empty segments at the current position
* Items which are not eligible for Transcode on import are now implicitly imported via 'Copy local'
instead
* User export presets are now sorted alphabetically
* Recognize more compression formats( divx, xvid, mvc )
* Better handling of partially fulflled metadata requests
* Holding SHIFT then dragging a selection box now adds additional selected items to the selection
* Holding CTRL/CMD then dragging over a selected group of fles now removes the box selection
* Pop out original function now gives the tile source focus
* Removed the "(PRO)" text on the "Create a Macro" function in the Key Assignments panel
* Bins now correctly scroll to show the newly imported/created item
* Lightworks.archives now import as a background task from the project browser
* Avoided creating shared media paths with double slashes in them
* Ensured that it's possible to transfer sequence ownership from one user to another (using classic
project sharing)
* Don't allow sequence metadata to be changed when locked by another user
* Don't try to enter an occupied room when double-clicking a project
* Make sure that repeated nudging does not cause current - time to be incorrect
* Use smallest size when duplicating image - should be the same
* Swap function now works as expected if you have an 'Out' mark
* Make sure that it's possible to click cues which are coincident with the current-time
Windows Fixes and Features
* Added 16 bit and 32 bit Float GPU precision
* Added support for older versions of MTX Matrox drivers (6.1 and 7.0)
* Added support for the last Matrox MXO2 drivers 8.0.0.15342
* Fixed crash changing the Genlock option on the Record panel with Matrox hardware
* Fixed SDI Recording failing with Matrox hardware
* Fixed crash analysing .MOV sample fle on the import panel
* Fixed Shared projects broadcast messages not working correctly
* Fixed crash on exit with After Efects plugins (Windows 32 bit)
* Fixed output tests only being available for AJA
* Fixed update of transcoded material for shared projects
* Fixed odd cue list behaviour in shared projects when selecting a cue from the list
* Fixed issues surrounding Windows Controlled folder Access
* Fixed audio fader on Mackie failing to respond when mixing audio levels
* Disabled debug information in the Status Window when using AJA hardware
* Now handle proxy fles being created in shared projects
* Now grey out Delete Project option if the project is occupied when using shared projects
Linux Fixes and Features
* Added support for Fusion 9
* Added 16 bit Float GPU precision
* Added voice over functionality
* Added Mackie MIDI support
* Added some support for Lightworks to run under Weyland
* Added ability to specify PortAudio devices by name in GlobalSettings.txt ie, [PortAudio]
OutputDeviceName=pulse
* Added confgurable latency for portaudio device: "Latency=<low/high>" in [PortAudio] section of
GlobalSettings.txt
* Included libcurl to installers for more distro support
* Fixed issue where changing folders on import/export locations could cause a crash
* Fixed audio glitches during playback of Audio Network media
* Fixed crash exporting to DPX image sequence
* Fixed crash right clicking the sequences flter
* Fixed incorrect function when applying a Greyscale over a dissolve to black
* Fixed selective colour correction not working correctly
* Fixed 100% Memory usage during YouTube exports
* Fixed switching between diferent clips in a bin when in Fullscreen
* Fixed audio glitches on playback of audio WAV fles
* Fixed Ubuntu libcurl3/4 dependency problems causing failure on startup
* Fixed playback of WAV material (clicking/echoing)
* Now build PortAudio ourselves giving more compatibility to other Linux Distros
Mac OS Fixes and Features
* Added 16 bit GPU precision
* Added 16 bit Float GPU precision
* Added support for Fusion 9
* Fixed incorrect image on 4k DPX media
* Fixed potential crash importing a folder of fles
* Fixed Mackie mixer taking a very long time to initialise on startup
* Fixed AJA I/O output not working correctly
* Fixed crash exporting to DPX image sequence
* Fixed unwanted system beep sound when pressing certain keys
* Fixed missing icons on the Status Window
* Fixed potential crash exporting a bin containing sequences
* Fixed potential crash exporting a Bin containing multiple sequences
* Fixed potential failure starting Lightworks
* Fixed Enter key on Numpad no longer being recognised
* Fixed audio glitches during playback of Audio Network media
* Fixed crash reading confg.dat with inconsistent line endings
* Fixed output tests only being available for AJA
* Fixed incorrect function when applying a Greyscale over a dissolve to black
* Fixed potential crash exporting to embedded AAF
* Fixed Media locations all showing the same amount of space remaining
* Fixed ProRes MOV exports completing but no fle appearing in the target directory
* Fixed user interface not responding correctly when exporting an AAF from a very large sequence
* Fixed fullscreen display showing incorrectly
* Fixed switching between diferent clips in a bin when in Fullscreen
* Fixed CAPS LOCK function being ignored when writing in text felds
* Fixed incorrect images on trimview when dragging a cut point with the mouse cursor
* Fixed potential hang Transcoding/Rendering/Exporting to MOV
* Fixed audio glitches during playback of WAV media
* Fixed media locations on XML imports and exports
* Fixed application position not being remembered when exiting and starting the application
* Fixed crash using CMD z (undo) after selecting multiple lines of text in the Notes section of the Filecard and
using CMD x
* Fixed Full screen display failing to appearing on the external monitor
* Fixed incorrect Apple ProRes MOV exports showing black/red frames
* Fixed playback of WAV material (clicking/echoing)
* Disabled debug information in the Status Window when using AJA hardware
* Re-implemented the Mac OS layer without QT
* Removed PPM fle type from the Image Sequence export list
* Removed BMP image sequence Import/Export


14.5 revision 104711

Welcome to the Version 14.5 Beta page
Here you will be able to view the list of fixes/changes between Beta builds. Please pay particular attention to the "Limitations and Known problems" list, as this may change with each new build.

To submit feedback on issues you find in the Beta versions:

Please start a Forum thread using the appropriate link below based on the operating system you are testing on. The Forum will allow you to submit issues you find or discuss how the application should be working:
www.lwks.com/windowsbetaforum,
www.lwks.com/linuxbetaforum
www.lwks.com/macbetaforum
Please make sure you have searched for the issue before creating a new thread, this should help stop duplicate threads being created. The more feedback we get, the faster we can resolve issues.

Cross Platform Fixes and Features Since 14.5.0.0 revision 104508 RC1
Added support for AC-3 audio in mp4/mov/m4v/m4a wrappers
Added support of variable frame rate files (.mov .mp4, .m4v)
Added new setting to the import panel for detecting variable frame rate media
Increase bitrate for higher frame rate YouTube/Vimeo/H.264 in line with YouTube recommendations
Fixed poor audio quality on YouTube/Vimeo/H.264 exports
Fixed MPEG-1 Layer2 audio in .MPG files not importing
Mac OS X Specific Fixes and Features Since 14.5.0.0 revision 104508 RC1
N/A
Windows Specific Fixes and Features Since 14.5.0.0 revision 104508 RC1
N/A
Linux Specific Fixes and Features Since 14.5.0.0 revision 104508 RC1
N/A
Cross Platform Limitations and Known Issues
Proxy files will not be created for files shorter than one second in length when set to H.264
Potential crash if attempting to export an image sequence from a sequence containing 16-bit DPX files
There is no ability to stream/play MP3 files on the import panel
Some MTS files will show pixelation on the start frames.
There is currently no way of searching for Groups
MTS files with two video streams (3D) will cause the MainConcept decoder to crash and Lightworks to close
The screen capture function is not currently working
CDDA ripping is no longer available
Potential crash importing QTRef files
Potential crash importing WMV files
Audio monitor delay setting will not be accounted for during export
There is no Firewire support
AVID DNxHD 10bit encode is not possible
Make sure any other applications are closed before attempting to install Lightworks
Video track can turn red after removing certain FX
.VOB files appear as "Sound" only on the import panel, but yet import with picture. Performance will be slow
Image quality on playback may be poor when project card set to NTSC Fields
You will not be able to transcode 1080p 60fps files on import to AVID DNxHD (MPEG AVI works correctly)
Blu-ray VC1 export does not generate a valid file. It imports back as Sound only
Audio on exported AVCHD files cannot be played by Windows Media Player it is just mute
The Record panel format must match the output format for successful recording to take place
Limitations and Known Problems on Mac 10.9 (Mavericks) and Higher
There is no ability to Import or Export .BMP image sequences
Any users running Macbook Pros MUST disable "Automatic graphics switching" under "Energy Saver" in the "System Preferences"
Lightworks will only run and 10.9 (Mavericks) and above
There is no H.264 MOV export
There is no Quicktime/MPEG4 export option
There is no FX Plugin support
There is no .WMV import
There is no Apple ProRes 4444 export option
There is no MPEG AVI option on Record/Render/Transcode/Export panels
There is no support for Matrox I/O hardware
The shared project feature is not currently working
Video overlay may change brightness on playback when running dual monitor setups
MTS playback may be poor
Limitations and Known Problems (Windows 32bit)
If the Matrox VFW codecs are installed on a Windows 8/8.1 system then you will not be able to open the export panel. Please uninstall the VFW codecs for the time being
Image on viewers and SDI output may look very poor on old ATI graphics card when set to 10-bit precision
Limitations and Known Problems (Windows 64bit)
There is no QuickTime Movie/MPEG4 import/export via Apple SDK
Premiere and After Effects plugins are not supported
Limitations and Known Problems (Linux 64bit)Audio content analysis is disabled

Limitations and Known Problems (Linux 64bit)
Please uninstall any previous Beta build before installing a new one

Tested distros (Other distributions may work, but have not been tested):

Debian Distros:

Ubuntu/Lubuntu/Xbuntu 17.10
Mint 17
RPM Distros:

Fedora 24/25
You may experience audio clicks/crackles when previewing Audio Network media
There is no Quicktime Movie/MPEG4 export option
There is no Mackie Audio Mixer support
There is no .WMV import
ATI and Nvidia cards are supported. EditShare recommends Nvidia for the best performance
Fraps AVIs will not import
There is no FX plugin support
No audio imported from OMFs (that do have embedded audio)
Audio may not be present on some Uncompressed AVIs
Do not use linux default GFX driver. If you experience the viewer playing at a reduced size then the Linux default graphics driver is installed. Please make sure the Nvidia driver is loaded an the system is restarted
Limitations and Known Issues With Matrox Hardware I/O (Windows only)
If your system is not fast enough or does not have enough memory, the captures using MXO2 will stop with a "dropped-frame" message
If the drives you are recording to are not fast enough the captures using MXO2 will stop with a "dropped-frame" message
Limitations and Known Issues With Blackmagic Hardware I/O (Windows, Linux and Mac OS X)
Input or Output only devices cannot be used. Lightworks requires both an Input and an Output to be present on the device.
The SDI output may flash when stopping playback if set to an interlaced output
Audio monitor level control has no effect on Blackmagic recordings
You will not be able to view video on the Blackmagic output if Precision is set to 10bit. Change to 8bit
There will be no audio playback when the project card is set to 1080p59.94
Limitations and Known Issues With AJA Hardware I/O (Windows and Mac OS X)
Audio monitor level control has no effect on AJA recording
There is no E-E when using the KONA LHi during recording
If your system is not fast enough or does not have enough memory, the captures using AJA devices will stop with a "dropped-frame" message
If the drives you are recording to are not fast enough the captures using AJA devices will stop with a "dropped-frame" message
On Kona 3G SDI 1 output must be used with Windows 32bit and SDI 2 output must be used with Windows 64bit


14.1 revision 101109

Welcome to the Version 14.1 Beta page.
Here you will be able to view the list of fixes/changes between Beta builds. Please pay particular attention to the "Limitations and Known problems" list, as this will change with each new build.

To submit feedback on issues you find in the Beta versions:

If your issue is not repeatable or you are unsure about how the application should be working, please first discuss the issue in the relevant category on the Lightworks Beta Forum sections:
www.lwks.com/windowsbetaforum,
www.lwks.com/linuxbetaforum and
www.lwks.com/macbetaforum
Cross Platform Fixes and Features Since 14.0.0.0 revision 93145 Release

Added export option to Reaper (Lightworks Pro only)
Added Histogram graph to the Video Tools panel
Added Frame Rate search criteria to the Content Manager
Added ability to "slide" an effect crossfade trim so that the trim can be moved up/down the timeline without damaging the sequence as it currently does
Added ability to drag a dissolve up off removing it like when right clicking and selecting "Remove"
Added support for Quicktimes with Alpha Channels on Mac, Linux and Windows 64bit
Added new Italians wording file to the installer (Courtesy of Carmelo Batagglia)
Added new config entry: "stripv_insert_dropped_tiles 1" for changing Replace to Insert, when dragging tiles from a bin to a sequence
Added ability to scroll the sequence timeline without changing the current timeline marker position
Added ability to adjust RED R3D RAW metadata parameters (.rmd)
Added individual clip R3D decode settings panel next to the Metadata panel in Log view
Added project wide R3D Decode settings to the Video tab of the project card
Added 16-bit GPU precision replacing 10-bit
Added ability to acknowledge project wide LUT setting on export
Added ability to set a Ranged Cue Marker (Start and End point) Add a Mark/Park region then click the Cue Marker icon to create one
Added ability to restore deleted clips from Milestones (which restores the entire clip with media link)
Added support for media structures:
Added support for XDCAM HD folder structure
Added support for AVCHD folder structure
Added support for GFCAM folder structure
Added support for JVC folder structure
Added support for IkegamiFieldPak
Added support for GOPRO/FlipVideo/Canon folder structures
Added support for chunked Canon XF clips
Added 'Reveal > Media files' on timeline segments
Added support for creating proxies from 60fps media
Added right click "Render" option for clips in the sequence timeline in both layouts. Render button has been removed from the timeline in Flexible layout
Added keyboard shortcut commands for 'clipboard insert/replace & next'
Added new trimming functionality to prevent a trim being extended beyond the media available at the head or tail
Added support for Quicktime MOV files with Alpha Channels on Mac, Linux and Windows 64bit
Added an "Alignment" option on the BITC panel to prevent text appear in the wrong area
Added ability for title effect text to appear as a comment in EDL's (32 character limit)
Added ability to export a bin of contents to XML and JSON
Enhanced the Media tab of the Project Card
Added ability to set Proxy creation settings
Added abilility to set Transcode settings (Now removed from the Import cogs menu)
Fullscreen-preview can now be inhibited with the config.dat entry "doubleclickfor_fullscreen 0"
Increased the limit of undo/redo's in a project to a default of 20
Resurrected the timeline sync function in Fixed layout
Audio Effects can now be added to the Favourites list (Flexible layout)
Adding video tracks now respects stereoscopic sequences
Fixed various issues surrounding media management
Media files are now moved correctly
Proxy files are now moved and not deleted
Index files are now moved
Audio waveform files are no longer deleted when moving files
Fixed potential crash clicking Undo multiple times after deleting all the keyframes on a Curves effect
Fixed AAF export potentially failing if the sequence contains a dissolve at the very start
Fixed potential crash importing an AAF containing dissolves
Fixed Blend effect not removing the Alpha channel on clips that contain one
Fixed colour shift when playing back DPX sequences
Fixed invalid hyperlinks in the export log when the filename contains an '=' character
Fixed copy/paste on Clipboard timeline not always work as expected
Fixed potential crash moving mouse over tile
Fixed incorrect display of 960x720 anamorphic MP4 media
Fixed Effects nodes not always reconnecting correctly after removing a node
Fixed P2 AVC-Intra 'CONTENTS' folder causing all other media files alongside it to be hidden
Fixed Find clip to fill sequence not working if the clip has 32 or more characters as the Reel ID
Fixed deformed image and/or black frames on a clip after cancelling a transcode during file import
Fixed The 'Make subclip' key assignment not working on Prints
Fixed Lightworks.archive restores not restoring all the media links
Fixed Clipboard .ed5 growing very large over time affecting project performance
Fixed Unicode text copied from a Lightworks text-entry box not being correct when pasted
Fixed potential crash clicking undo after adding and grouping video tracks
Fixed Unicode BITC text not showing correctly
Fixed crash making an audio only Kemroll from audio only files
Fixed potential crash deleting a project with a corrupt .odb file
Fixed Incorrect duration/speed for image-sequences in 25fps projects
Fixed auto switching from Edit to VFW tab when dragging out an inline effect to it's own FX track (Fixed layout)
Fixed crash after using 'Make source into sequence' (Flexible layout)
Fixed creating a sequence of matches from the find matching clips panel from removing crossfades
Fixed archives containing multiple copies of the same file
Fixed floating Bins appearing in Fixed layout when dragging them outside the interface window
Fixed drag and drop of a Stereoscopic clip to an edit sequence not creating a stereoscopic sequence with a V1/2
Fixed create-link imports requiring forcible extraction not being revealed in the interface
Fixed odd behaviour importing a folder of clips more than once
Fixed AAF from AVID Media Composer not importing with the correct start timecode for V1 clips
Fixed potential crash changing the "Fullscreen preview monitor" setting
Fixed dropped frames on playback and audio drifting out of sync
Fixed the 'Make subclip' command not working for syncs
Fixed user interface not fitting correctly on 1366x768 monitors in Fixed layout
Fixed Fullscreen display not displaying a video when first entering a project
Fixed incorrect clip length in mixed rate projects, resulting in distorted audio and incorrect clip lengths and waveforms
Fixed misleading error message when exporting an archive to a location that is no longer available
Fixed black frames at the end of XDCAM MXF files
Fixed timecode not being continuous on .MP3 audio imports
Fixed Drag/drop of transition to head of sequence not always working
Fixed Vectorscope YCrCb tab showing the incorrect information when giving focus to a tile in a bin
Fixed the appearance of the out-point on the timeline for new sequences (with no defined length)
Fixed appearance of image-matte thumbnails on the routing panel (for non-matching aspect-ratios)
Fixed video routing panel not coming to the front when clicked on
Fixed incorrect colour on exported AVCHD files
Fixed incorrect sequence created when popping a tile out of a sequence viewer
Fixed alpha value resetting hue/saturation on colour effects
Fixed inconsistent menu lists appearing through other panels
Fixed Key assignments panel not updating correctly after adding a macro
Fixed "Cue Marker' shortcut not working from inside a macro
Fixed Offline audio-only clips not showing as 'Offline'
Fixed Lightworks Pro features requiring a software restart after upgrading from Lightworks Free to Lightworks Pro
Fixed align marks when more than one track is unjoined
Fixed bin modification handling in shared projects
Fixed timecode not appearing when inserting a clip into a new empty sequence (flexible layout)
Fixed out-point calculation error when generating Fusion comp files from multi-segment timelines
Fixed Clipboard Source keyboard shortcut key not working as expected
Fixed AAF exports with embedded audio
Fixed reading of PCM audio on AVI sample files
Fixed issues dragging the record sequence to the source viewer
Fixed incorrect image on Fullscreen output after closing and re opening after moving the timeline marker
Fixed incorrect number of frames reported for still images on the list of sources on Assistant Applications
Fixed the import panel opening larger than the screen
Now respect the PGUP keyboard shortcut in fixed layout mode
The list of available Fonts is not sorted correctly
Resurrected the "Fix sync" functionality ( now 'Align > Video and audio' )
Resurrected the Render functionality in the (Fixed layout)
Avoided creating shared media paths with double slashes in them
Ensured that it's possible to transfer sequence ownership from one user to another (using classic project sharing)
Don't allow sequence metadata to be changed when locked by another user
Don't try to enter an occupied room when double-clicking a project
Make sure that repeated nudging does not cause current - time to be incorrect
Use smallest size when duplicating image - should be the same
Make sure that it's possible to click cues which are coincident with the current-time
Fixed possible crash deleting the last cue in an edit / clip
Swap function now works as expected if you have an 'Out' mark
Fixed sequence cues in 24 fps project
Fixed additional added V track breaking multicam syncing on sequences
Fixed potential hang changing the video output format
Fixed decoding of 16bit DPX files
Recognise more compression formats( divx, xvid, mvc )
Fixed and tidied Play Quality settings( proxy usage )
Fixed Search panel on the content manager jumping up the screen when switching between Logs and Bins tabs
Fixed Clip References panel LEDs showing as dimmed
Better handling of partially fulfilled metadata requests
Fix channel enumeration( crash ) if calling verifyClipLength() for a clip that has levels tracks
Fixed audio level adjustment using the mouse scroll wheel in the sequence timeline
Holding SHIFT then dragging a selection box now adds additional selected items to the selection
Holding CTRL/CMD then dragging over a selected group of files now removes the box selection
Pop out original function now gives the tile source focus
Removed the "(PRO)" text on the "Create a Macro" function in the Key Assignments panel
Prevented milestone edits being created during drag and drop functions on sequences
Bins now correctly scroll to show the newly imported/created item
Lightworks.archives now import as a background task from the project browser
Mac OS X Specific Fixes and Features Since 14.0.0.0 revision 93145 Release

Added support for Fusion 8
Fixed incorrect image on 4k DPX media
Fixed potential crash importing a folder of files
Fixed Mackie mixer taking a very long time to initialise on startup
Fixed AJA I/O output not working correctly
Re-implemented the Mac OS layer without QT
Windows Specific Fixes and Features Since 14.0.0.0 revision 93145 Release

Fixed crash changing the Genlock option on the Record panel with Matrox hardware
Fixed SDI Recording failing with Matrox hardware
Fixed crash analysing .MOV sample file on the import panel
Linux Specific Fixes and Features Since 14.0.0.0 revision 93145 Release

Now build PortAudio ourselves giving more compatibility to other Linux Distros


Fixes and Features in Version 14.0

New Features
* Added new user interface options:
* Added new project browser layout
* Choose between Fixed and Flexible (Historic Lightworks) layouts on the project
browser
* Added access to Pond5 media repository from within the application:
* Browse the entire Pond5 database by entering search criteria
* Play the clip direct from the import panel
* Play the clip back in full screen mode
* Import the clip into the project and use it as local media (Lo-Res watermarked
proxy)
* Sign into your Pond5 account, to add clips to the cart for purchase4 TP-00307-01
Lightworks v14.0 Release Notes
* Added access to Audio Network audio repository from within the application
* Browse the entire Audio Network database by entering search criteria
* Play the clip direct from the import panel
* Play the clip back directly over your sequence
* Added new Cues panel and renamed to Cue Markers
* Added the ability to change the colors of Cue Markers
* Added the ability to search for Cue Markers
* Added quick pop up of Cue Marker information
* Added new import panel functionality
* Clips can now be played on the import panel the same as a tile in a bin
* Clips can now be marked/parked on the import panel the same as a tile in a bin
* Clips can now be inserted/replaced directly from the import panel to the edit
timeline
* Full Screen display can now be activated on any selected tile on the import
panel
* You can now use Ctrl and mouse wheel to change the size of the tiles on the
import panel
* Improved Voice Over tool functionality and made it available with the Free license
* Allowed Voice over recordings at all frame rates and formats
* Added Voice over functionality to Mac OS X
* Removed the functionality from the record tool and added to a right click menu
(Flexible mode)
* Improved VU audio meters on the Voice Over tool
* Allowed Voice Over recording with the Free version
* Added new Effects panel combining Adding, Settings, Graphs and Routing
* Added new auto effect capability to the Effects panel
* Added proxy workflow (create proxies directly from a clip or bin)
* Added full screen playback preview controls (play, mark, cue marker, switch clip in
the bin)
* Added Avid DNxHD MOV encoding to the import, render and export panels
(Separate Avid DNxHD license required)
* Added ability to right click an empty area of the timeline and close the gap
* Added ability to Play, Scrub and Mark clips in List view bins
* Added improved RED R3D playback to utilize OpenCL
* Added ability to rename a grouped track
* Added ability to automatically sync chunked Panasonic P2 files on import
* Added keybinds for adding a video track and/or audio track
* Added 'Make > Bin of sources not used' to the edit menu
* Added 'Remove > Redundant cuts' and 'Remove > Gaps' menu options, and
removed ‘simplify’ menu option.
* Added 'make subclip' keybindable commandTP-00307-01 5
Fixes and Features in Version 14.0
* Added 'Find > Bins' for edits
* Added better FX node removal logic
* Added Faster effects thumbnails (avoid regenerating the temp/preview edit for
every time change)
* Added ability to input hex values in color gradient dialogs
* Added ability to create user defined sub category for Effects
* Added new sequence timeline menu category ’Segment Commands’
* Added system-settings menu ’Full Screen preview monitor’ for when there are
multiple monitors attached (with choices 1,2,3,etc)
* Added 'Make > Video Black' to bin menus
* Added better support for dual monitor setups with the new project browser
* Added key shortcut assignment for 'Tidy' (Flexible layout)
* Added support for Intel ADPCM audio types
* Added project backup functionality to the Project Card (removed from export panel)
* Added RGB video waveform analysis
* Added video-routing orientation toggle to the cogs menu (Fixed layout)
* Added a ’Clear’ option as a way of removing ’Recent’ locations from the Import panel
Places menu
* Added a right-click 'Rename' option for bin groups
* Added ability to Shift-click the Content Manager '+' icon to create an empty bin
group
* Added 'AltG+ß' handling for German keyboards
* Added skin-tone line on vectorscope (Thanks to khaver)
* Added num_projects_across/down to config.dat
* Added support for uncompressed RGBA QuickTimes with alpha channel
* Added YouTube/Vimeo export at 48 fps
Fixes
* Resurrected on-viewer image scaling for 2D DVEs
* Fixed Timecode labels do not appear correctly
* Fixed 1080p50/720p50 MOV UYVY incorrect renders when set to 10-bit
* Fixed being able to drag and drop a source clip to an edit that has grouped audio
tracks
* Fixed appearance of text under the Lightworks Logo on the project browser screen
* Fixed license activation failing if an expired Shark.e2c file is present
* Fixed incorrect timecodes on Panasonic P2 chunked files
* Fixed effect node de-orphaning (when reconnecting a non-topmost orphan)
* Fixed video routing after doing unfold then undo
* Fixed exports failing with a sensible error message when the stored export directory
for a preset no longer exists6 TP-00307-01
Lightworks v14.0 Release Notes
* Fixed making a print of a marked edit always making a subclip regardless of the
choice made on the 'Make Copy' dialog
* Fixed making a print of an unmarked edit always making a subclip from the point at
which you are parked
* Fixed Groups not dragging out of the content manager if any part of the dragged
name overlays another panel
* Fixed error in timeline track Sync/loss number
* Fixed audio levels being ignored during JKL trimming
* Prevented Audio mixer panel being opened on the project browser screen using the
keyboard shortcut key
* Export presets now start immediately when selecting them
* Reworded some of the menu clip/edit menu items
* Reorganized track-related clip/edit menu items
* Do not provide 'Remove selected items' for Filters
* Modified AAF export to deal with clip sections that have been extended beyond the
clip boundaries
* Ignored hidden files during media relinking
* Fixed incorrect pixelation on edge of Image Key effects
* Improved appearance of the BITC panel
* Relink missing media option now remembers the last location used
* Correctly transfer focus when closing a record edit viewer
* You can now use Ctrl and mouse wheel to zoom when over the routing panel
* You can now use Ctrl+wheel to zoom when over the edit timeline
* Removed password protection from projects
* Updated the Dream Glow Color Correction Preset to use the new color correction
* Mark/Park renders now create a history when marking one segment
* Increased buffer size when reading uncompressed audio (to take account of sector
size) and retry with larger buffer in the case of failure
* Introduced the ability for new users to run Lightworks without having to register or
sign in on the first attempt
* Improved ’Align Marks’ functionality in a much simpler and easier way
* Removed debug error messages related to LwImageDefs.cpp line 391
* Ensured that 'Fit to fill' option is always available
* Fixed multiple copies of the delete panel being opened
* Fixed audio corruption on MP4 sample file
* Fixed sequence viewers jumping to a new position when double clicking a viewer
after double clicking to enable full screen playback (Flexible layout)
* Fixed tiles turning black in bins with letterboxing enabled
* Fixed crash when encountering logs with invalid audio mix settings (Fixed layout)
* Fixed crash deleting a file with the import panel open on the file that was just
deleted (Flexible layout)TP-00307-01 7
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* Fixed Effects panel jumping position after double clicking an effect to add it then
clicking back to select another (Flexible layout)
* Fixed media unarchiving
* Fixed timeline marker not returning to the correct position after a trim
* Fixed multiple Preferences panels being opened in Flexible layout
* Fixed import of multiple media folders at a time
* Updated Boris FX and Graffiti links on the licensing panels
* Fixed multiple copies of the Playout tool being opened in Flexible layout
* Fixed the 'Effects Creation Panel' key command (F9)
* Fixed incorrect room name after creating a new room
* Fixed bin-name editability
* Fixed track-name copying
* Fixed shark hotspot
* Fixed ’Pop out original’ function on sequences not working correctly on Subclips
* Fixed potential crash importing MP4 sample file
* Fixed Audio Replay Rate not updating in List view bins when changing the output
format
* Fixed potential crash during playing (with the vectorscope visible)
* Fixed subclips incorrectly showing ’Compression’ text option on sequences as
’Unknown’
* Fixed hang playing back MP4 sample files
* Fixed image sequences not being coalesced together when importing the parent
folder
* Fixed panel positioning on multi-monitor setups
* Fixed incorrectly positioned search text-entry widget
* Fixed crash encountering corrupt project thumbnail file
* Fixed crash shift+clicking the pop-out icon
* Fixed MXF media coalescing
* Fixed AAC audio playback not working
* Fixed issues with duplicate media spaces appearing on the Media tab of the project
card
* Removed MPEG 422 AVI codec from the import, render and export panels
* Limited Vimeo export to 720p with a Free license (upload now optional) due to end
of Vimeo agreement
* Prevented the 'close' icon being clickable on the full screen preview when it's not
visible
* Prevented multiple magnifier panels being created
* Generated the correct menu when right-clicking on the key-assignments panel
* Updated sequence viewers after relinking missing media
* Updated FX graph time indicators when necessary
* Improved visibility of grouped track indicators8 TP-00307-01
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* Make sure that the shark (and other tools) respect explicitly-set default positions
* Make clip selections similar in bins between List and Tiles view
* Issued a sensible message if a recent folder no longer exists
* Improved the sequence/clip restore function on the project browser
* Improved playback responsiveness by keeping playfile references open
* Restored click and drag trim to that of traditional style trims
* Now show the correct frame when 'revealing' a viewer from a varispeed segment
* Now trim the correct number of frames when jumping to the end of a sequence with
unjoined cuts
* Clicking the 'Effects' button when parked at the end of a sequence now causes the
effects panel to appear anyway
* Fixed Media page drawing on top of tasks page when starting an export
* Fixed image sequence export failing when ’Create folders for clips’ option is ticked
* Fixed crash deleting the last item in a table-view bin
* Fixed potential crash importing H.264 MOV sample
* Fixed crash setting Blackmagic output to an unsupported mode
* Fixed audio distortion playing back audio at 48 fps
* Fixed crash clicking the new sequence tool in Flexible layout with an unjoined cut
open on an existing sequence
* Fixed crash repeatedly pressing F4 on the Log tab with no source loaded in the
source viewer
* Fixed Audio Mixer layout issue when new tracks are added
* Fixed Fit to fill affecting only the first track of grouped track pairs
* Fixed playback issues with material that takes a long time to open/analyze - e.g.
120 fps MP4 sample files
* Fixed incorrect size of the Bins search panel
* Fixed Matrox YUYV 1080i AVI renders being black
* Fixed batch import tagging
* Fixed macro parsing when repeat-count is zero
* Fixed crash due to video standard not being set when changing hardware device
* Fixed potential hang switching between output formats with Full Screen preview
enabled
* Fixed incorrect Primary TC value when stepping off the start of a sequence
* Trimming changes are not saved when rejoining a trim after using SHIFT and Jump
Forwards
* Clicking (and holding) a mark on the viewer now behaves the same as the mark on
the timeline (ie. immediate picture redisplay before mouse-move)
* Updated to latest licensing server compliance
* Enabled RED R3D decode with Free version
* Automatically move the current-time to the start of newly added transitions
* Improved appearance and performance of Title Effects with keyframed sizeTP-00307-01 9
Fixes and Features in Version 14.0
* Fixed drag/drop of tiles onto the content-manager icon
* Fixed full screen preview when there are multiple monitors with differing sizes
* Fixed EDL format display confusion
* Fixed muted audio tracks setting being ignored when trimming
* Fixed error failing to add a dissolve to the very end of a sequence
* Fixed import panel file analysis causing delayed exit from the project
* Fixed batch import panel Format column setting being ignored
* Fixed import panel redraw after changing multiple formats in one go
* Fixed timeline time strip mouse behavior
* Fixed shared project spaces not working correctly
* Fixed crash exiting a shared project space with the configuration panel open
* Fixed inaccurate timeline marker position after trimming the end of the last clip in a
sequence
* Fixed EDL generation for clips whose reel ID was originally read from a media file
* Fixed subsequent imports appearing as ’Sound’ only files
* Fixed reading of uncompressed QuickTime audio
* Fixed erroneous 'missing log' warnings in EDLs
* Fixed inability to search for wordings reliably
* Fixed ’Pre-ingest sync’ import option for audio only files
* Fixed 'Full SD frames' output setting not working
* The marked region on viewer timestrips is now more obvious
* Prevented empty folders from being imported (via drag/drop)
* Prevented clip cuts being unjoined on the clip timeline
* Prevented stripping trailing punctuation characters from filenames when
generating clip names for imports
* Prevented hang when clicking on stacked time-markers
* Prevented crash displaying images when inserting from a sequence into another
* Dragging a transition now automatically closes the gap 'underneath' the effect (so
that you can move it left/right)
* When revealing the full screen preview, re-render the current frame if it's at
thumbnail resolution
* Avoided 'severe warning' messages in error.log (when assigning an audio mix to an
empty edit)
* Now always use the first frame of a media file for preview purposes (on the import
panel)
* Now treat Ctrl+Alt+click the same as Alt+click when unjoining
* Now keep menu panels open allowing for multiple option changes
* Now continue creating proxies even if one of them fails (and log the failure)
* Now use Ctrl+right click for timeline 'Insert black' (Ctrl+left click for 'replace black')
* Made Cue Marker tagging/highlighting more intuitive
* Made sure there's always an audio levels line drawn for tracks in new sequences10 TP-00307-01
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* No longer consider the ' character to be illegal in filenames
* The 'make subclip' key assignment now optionally makes subclips from cues if
there's no mark
* Flush audio sample cache playfile references when deleting media files - which
might fail otherwise
* Fixed drag and drop of a clip off the start of a sequence shifting the rest of the track
along
* Fixed incorrect audio on MP4 sample files
* Fixed hang generating titles (which have been shrunk to nothing)
* Fixed 'Reveal imports in search filter' setting on the import panel
* Fixed 'media offline' after copying/moving clips between projects
* Fixed failure to restore focus to a viewer when re-entering a room (if that viewer was
created from a tile dragged from a viewer 'pop out' icon)
* Fixed viewer title after swapping contents
* Fixed record tool persistence
* Fixed segment resizing with grouped tracks
* Fixed the Recent/Current filter
* Fixed item renaming in Content Manager
* Fixed scrubbing through interlaced material showing fields in random order on the
Blackmagic hardware output
* Removed outstanding floating windows before project entry
* Removed audio speed option on WAV exports in 30 fps projects
* Avoided making empty edits whenever a viewer's contents are popped out
* Avoided unexpected clipboard message
* Allowed click/drag trim when other tracks already have unjoined cuts
* Allowed removal of all segment texts
* Prevented full screen preview from being displayed when double-clicking a tile's
viewer icon (if the resultant viewer would appear over the clicked tile)
* Prevented endless 'scan_add_trans: index too big' messages on the status window
* Prevented erroneously showing clip effects in sequences
* Prevented crash encountering corrupt ED5s
* Project-browser preview images are now correct for 4:3 clips
* Now handle archives contained inside folders with .archive extensions
* Now inhibit tear-off timecode for effects duration widget
* No longer reveal the tasks page if a new background task has already completed
* Use the most up-to-date sequence image for project thumbnails
* Updated FX graphs correctly in response to editing operations
* Updated table-view bins correctly after deleting multiple items in one go
* Revealed image-sequences directly, rather than revealing their containing folder
* Fixed intermittent black audio waveformsTP-00307-01 11
Fixes and Features in Version 14.0
* Fixed still images showing as Media Offline with drag and drop
* Fixed bin search/replace crash
* Fixed Effects starting on the incorrect frame
* Fixed key 'up' handling which could lead to the full screen preview appearing
unexpectedly
* Fixed bin drag/drop within nested groups
* Fixed hang on playback with certain media
* Improved handling of m4v files
* Reinstated the ability to drag transition effects to the marked region
* Avoided hang generating title effects
* Preserved tagged items correctly when switching bin views
* Save/restore minimized effect component states
* Fixed Timecode being displayed as ??? when only an FX track is enabled
* Fixed Key Assignments panel not updating when loading keyboard Preferences
* Fixed editing of search criteria (date/tracks/media)
* Fixed menu update when toggling an option but not moving the mouse
* Fixed full screen preview for SD media
* Fixed group highlighting in the content manager
* Fixed speed-change for grouped tracks when 'auto track sync' is disabled
* Fixed automatic re-categorization of custom effect templates
* Fixed incorrect playback MP4 samples when set to an interlaced output format
* Fixed clip sound level adjustment not working on first frame
* Fixed errors in Status Window and error.log when importing Pond5 media
* Fixed issues with renaming/reordering bins in groups
* Fixed bin deletion in the content manager
* Fixed undo handling for effects
* Fixed 48 fps timecode on sequence viewers in 48 fps projects
* Fixed text display for dragged audio levels
* Fixed sorting of column headers in the Content Manager List view
* Fixed creation-date discovery when metadata is missing (but backup is available)
* Fixed missing audio metadata
* Fixed crash dragging a tile to a viewer whilst the viewer is playing
* Prevented stretching 4:3 SD media on the full screen preview
* Prevented shifting current-time when adjusting effects settings
* Improved handling of folders containing large image sequences
* Removed dates from project tooltips
* Removed orphaned dialogues
* Right clicking an unselected project on the project browser now highlights that
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Lightworks v14.0 Release Notes
* Better width calculation for file-browser 'date' column
* Fixed 'switch' when the source viewer is linked to a bin tile
* Fixed room names
* Fixed analysis of some MP3 sample files
* Fixed handling of the last keyframe on a clip in a sequence
* Fixed export panel compression button
* Fixed kemroll generation
* Fixed viewer track button update
* Fixed timeline redraw when unjoining cuts at minimum size
* Fixed drag/drop of unimported clips to bins
* Fixed bin table-view scrolling
* Fixed GPU memory error with DVE on 4K media
* Fixed effects splitting (when there are multiple effects on the same segment)
* Fixed incorrect display of SD image sequences
* Preserved defaults for new edits when switching layout mode
* The 'clipboard source' command now reveals the clipboard if it's not already visible
* Updated viewer image correctly when jumping between keyframes whilst in (static)
play mode
* Fixed potential crash clicking on MXF sample file (HDCAM-SR not supported)
* Fixed incorrect keyframing after making a cut on a sequence with complex effects
routing
* Fixed crash entering project regarding the Clipboard being the Record sequence
* Fixed timeline redraw error when Trim curl is enabled
* Fixed crash pressing F7 when the effects panel is not visible
* Fixed labels-panel track selection
* Fixed keyframe-graph updating issues when jumping between keyframes that span
an effect on a different track
* Fixed potential crash right clicking a playing sequence viewer
* Fixed Copy local not working for image sequences
* Fixed AIFF file staying locked at the OS level after clip is deleted from a project
* Fixed export of stereoscopic image-sequences
* Restored the last used effects category correctly
* Now show the correct effects settings panel when moving to a new time where the
effects are on a different track to the previous time
* Prevented failures of queued exports (when the first export causes a low memory
condition to occur)
* Improved behaviour of EQ effects with grouped tracks
* Fixed crash double clicking an effect in the routing panel if opened using F7
* Fixed potential crash changing output format with Full Screen enabled
* Fixed transition between slow-shuttle and hitting play-speed on interlaced outputTP-00307-01 13
Fixes and Features in Version 14.0
* Fixed 'To here' transitions added at the start of a sequence causing audio sync loss
* Fixed media appearing offline after creating a new media space and then importing
directly to it
* Fixed crash showing stills for malformed sync
* Fixed export error failure ’Cannot find the file specified’
* Fixed crash clicking on a table-view field after changing the column layout
* Ensured that 'hoover' retains mark positions
* Inhibited stills on project exit (possibly fix/address occasional hang)
* Automatically adjust the duration of transitions for which there is insufficient media,
if possible
* Do not attempt to read timecode from PTS - gives incorrect results,
* Improved message when adding transitions to clips with insufficient media
* Fixed room names when switching rooms with shortcut key
* Fixed Cue Markers with custom colors are lost when a sequence copy is made
Windows Fixes and Features
* Added support for the latest AJA drivers (Adds KONA 4G Support)
* Removed DV 1394 capture support
* Ensured the correct Boris plug-in effect name is displayed for the currently installed
plug-in
* Fixed incorrect 3D LUT playback when set to 10-bit precision on the project card
* Fixed crash tearing off a source viewer timecode label highlighting one of the
numbers then closing the label
* Now use the correct number of audio outputs set by the sound card which prevents
the audio being attenuated by -6dB
* Avoided generating 'couldn't set owner' messages in error.log file
* Enabled D3D surface and texture cache management, preventing all GPU memory
being consumed
* Fixed Boris FX/Graffiti plug-ins not appearing in the Plug-ins category on the Effects
panel
* Fixed dropped frames on playback on AJA hardware output14 TP-00307-01
Lightworks v14.0 Release Notes
Linux Fixes and Features
* Fixed Italic titles being cropped incorrectly
* Fixed SSL segmentation fault on Ubuntu 15.10
* Fixed Image Key effect not working correctly with latest NVIDIA Drivers
* Fixed crash on startup on Fedora 25 (Please see Limitations and Known Issues)
* Fixed high memory usage with multiple opened files
* Fixed multi-monitor full screen preview
* Fixed hang after applying image-key
* Made sure that floating windows can appear over video windows
* Prevented hang moving DVEs using the viewer controls
* Fixed viewer controls not appearing for DVEs
* Arranged for stack traces to appear in error.log for occurrences of
Lw::Exception::RuntimeError
* Avoided displaying multiple OS file-browser windows
* Prevented crash exporting to P2 AVC-Intra
* Fixed potential crash enabling full screen display (F12)
* Fixed installation of user LUTs
* Removed debugging code that would cause a potential crash switching rooms
Mac OS Fixes and Features
* Added support for the latest AJA drivers (Adds KONA 4G Support)
* Fixed Italic titles being cropped incorrectly
* Fixed crash when encountering a zero-length JPEG file
* Fixed potential random crash due to OpenGL
* Fixed render preview window getting stuck to the mouse cursor when moving it
* Fixed signing by unidentified developer
* Added automatic resolution selection for ProRes
* Fixed Boris FX/Graffiti plug-ins not appearing in the Plug-ins category on the Effects
panel (clean installs)
* Fixed potential crash altering a Boris effect and saving it back to the timeline
* Fixed dropped frames on playback on AJA hardware output
* Prevented crash exporting to P2 AVC-Intra


Fixes and Features in Version 12.6

New Features
• Added Export to Vimeo at up to 1080p in the Free version.
• Added ability to right click a Group within the Content Manager and Copy/Move it to
another project.
• Added backwards compatibility for future versions of Lightworks.
• Added missing text from the Wordings file (Localization).
• Improved handling of incompatible projects with future versions of Lightworks.
• Improved handling of edit notifications to make them safer.
• Added new keyboard .prefs file compatible with Contour Shuttle Pro drivers.
• Added additional license panel on sign up that refers to existing tutorial material.
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Fixes
• Fixed "Find bins" function not working if the bin is contained within a Group.
• Fixed timeline marker jumping to the start of the sequence when un-compacting a
multicam bin.
• Fixed missing [F1] Import key assignment entry in the key assignment panel.
• Fixed only one clip being registered in direct to Bin Imports for Copy Local and
Transcode.
• Fixed crash removing the last entry in the Key Assignments panel.
• Fixed XML exports not containing the transition type information.
• Fixed incorrect import of FCP7 XML containing subclips.
• Fixed potential crash importing multiple files at once.
• Fixed crash importing multiple frame rate files into an Auto frame rate project using
Copy local or Transcode.
• Fixed export presets being saved when closing the Preset panel and not actually
clicking Save.
• Fixed sorting order on the Bin list that appears when copying the contents of one bin
to another.
• Fixed export presets being created with the same name as an existing preset.
• Fixed incorrect audio playback on RED R3D files.
• Fixed Prints not playing video content after being inserted into an edit.
• Fixed FX settings panel not seeing the correct tracks on room entry.
• Fixed potential crash dragging a tile to an empty viewer.
• Fixed potential crash tracing an edit that contains subclips (Export of: AAF, OMF, EDL,
XML).
• Fixed Playhead jumping off screen when rejoining after a trim with an FX track
present.
• Fixed incorrect frame rate being identified on .MOV sample files.
• Fixed bin names not being overwritten correctly when copying groups from one
project to another.
• Fixed ability to copy a group containing an empty bin to another project.
• Fixed incorrect display of Image Key effect when set to interlaced output.
• Fixed incorrect clip being opened when dragging and dropping from a bin set to List
view.
• Fixed potential crash changing the varispeed setting on an edit that is not in Record
mode.
• Fixed incorrect "Audio rate" when importing multiple files into an "Auto" frame rate
project.
• Fixed keyboard buffering overflow with nudging shortcuts.
• Fixed unfolded FX tracks on edits preventing multicam AutoSync working.
• Show progressive SD formats using allow_progressive_sd_export 1 config.dat
entry.
• Renamed YouTube export options on the Export panel.
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Lightworks v12.6 Release Notes
• Fixed Console Play command keyboard shortcut returning the wrong play speed.
• Fixed viewer transport control buttons not working correctly.
• Fixed track shift on XML sequence imports from FCP7 containing FX.
• Fixed audio sync issues with 25 / 30 fps exports from a 24 fps project.
• Fixed potential crash changing tile sizes on compacted Multicam Bins.
• Fixed potential crash repeatedly right clicking the project browser.
Windows Fixes and Features
• Added support for Blackmagic Fusion 8.
• Fixed Matrox driver copy error on systems with UAC enabled (error message when
copy fails).
• Fixed issues with typing certain characters into input boxes.
• Fixed incorrect playback on 3D LUTs when set to 10-bit precision on the project card.
• Fixed appearance of Korean text within the application.
Linux Fixes and Features
• Added full compatibility support for Ubuntu 15.10.
• Fixed potential crash browsing to a location containing a corrupt JPEG file.
• Fixed segmentation Fault with OpenSSL 1.0.2 (caused a crash on sign in to the
application).
• Fixed PNG image sequence exports being incorrect from an edit containing an image
key.
Mac OS Fixes and Features
• Added full compatibility support for Mac OS X 10.11 (El Capitan).
• Added improved error logging to catch potential crash.
• Fixed startup failure due to AJA hardware being present.
• Fixed Tiles/Viewers getting stuck to the mouse cursor when pressing Stop during
movement.
• Fixed corrupt JPEG files causing crashes opening the import panel.
• Fixed panels appearing behind the video image within a viewer.
• Fixed panels appearing behind the video image after frame stepping using the
Console.
• Fixed Matrix wipe effect not working.


Lightworks v12.5 Release Notes

New Features
• Added UltraHD video output format option to the Video tab of the Project Card (Lightworks Pro only)
• Export option improvements (Lightworks Pro Only)
• Added H.264/MP4 export format (level 5.2) for more export options including 4K
• Added WebM export option, includes 4K
• Added XAVC-Intra export option, includes 4K
• Added support for XML export (Version 5 only)
• Added further improvements to AAF Avid Media Composer export option to allow media relinking to the original file if one exists
• Added support for LUTs .3dl, .looks, .cube, .davlut, and .mga filesFixed pop-out crash (in the unlikely event of a source having a missing track)
• Added support for applying a LUT at the project level (Video tab of the project card)
• Added support for the import of CinemaDNG files
• Added a config entry for turning off the automatic edit creation when Inserting/ Replacing (’create_edit_on_demand 0’)
• Added menu entry to the Search tool to show bin search results in racks
• Added consistency for the term ’Reel ID’ within the application
• Changed wording of ’Auto configure new effects’ to ’Show settings panel for new effects’
• Make 'copy marked section' work when there are deselected/unmarked tracks
• Improved timeline segment drag/drop:
• Do not automatically change the zoom level unless neither end of the grabbed segment is visible
• Do not move current-time when dropping a segment if it would mean changing the current visible region
• Respect waveform/levels visibility when dragging audio segments
• Timeline now scrolls left/right when moving clips/FX using drag and drop
• Allowed drag/drop FX highlights to pass behind the red time-marker
• Allowed drag/drop timeline segments to pass behind the red time-marker
• ALT dragging an EQ on an audio segment that does not have audio levels always drags the EQ
• ALT dragging an audio only segment that does not have EQ always drags the audio levels
• ALT dragging an audio only segment that has audio levels AND EQ, then levels are dragged if you're in 'Advanced' mode, EQ in non-advanced mode
• New Content Manager improvements:
• Added a scroll bar to torn off groups
• Added the ability to scroll bin tabs in a torn off group
• Added the ability to right click a tab in a torn off group to display the bin list
• Added the ability to resize a torn off group
• Added the ability to add a Bin to more than one Group
• Improved the color of Group names within the content manager
• Improved tab display of bins on torn off groups
• Improved the Bin search within the content manager
• Improved the behavior of hoovered clips
• Removed the number limit of bins available in a group
• Fixed inability to drag torn off bins into Groups within the content manager
• Fixed bins being incorrectly merged when dragging and dropping a bin to a group
• Added new menu item to the Content Manager icon: ‘Default tile positioning’. The default value is 'inherit' (ie, inherit the positioning setting from the source bin), and the other values are 'manual' and 'automatic'. Therefore, choose 'Manual' to force new bins to be created with automatic positioning disabled.
• Added improvements to ’H.264/MP4’ ’WebM’ and ’WMV’ export options (Lightworks Pro Only):
• Added ability to change the Compression settings
• Added option for Constant bitrate compression
• Added option for Variable bitrate compression
• Added 1440p (2K) and 2160p (4K) size options to YouTube export option (Lightworks Pro Only)
• Improved compression settings between different YouTube H.264/MP4 size options:
• 2160p (4K) 35-45 Mbps
• 1440p (2K) 16 Mbps
• 1080p 8 Mbps
• 720p 5 Mbps
• 480p 2.5 Mbps
• 360p 1 Mbps
• Changed wording of ’relink existing/new media’ setting on the import panel to ’Search for media’ and added new functionality options:
• ’No’ = No media scanning relinking at all
• ’Simple’ = Will look in the folder in which the AAF/XML resides to find media
• ’Thorough’ = Will look in the folder in which the AAF/XML resides to find media along with all child folders in the tree
• Added ’Original Audio Timecode’ and ’Orig Audio Reel’ to AAF exports
• Added support for import of XAVC long-GOP files
• Added more functionality to the AAF/XML import ability to scan subfolders of a directory containing an AAF/XML
• Added support for reading Markers contained in AAFs generated from Avid Media Composer
• Added 'Save current frame' key assignable command (which grabs the current record edit frame, saves it in 'My Pictures' and then reveals it in your file manager)
• Added shortcut key assignable command for muting audio tracks (’Toggle Mute A1-A16’)
• Added shortcut key assignable command for soloing audio tracks (’Toggle Solo A1-A16’)
• Added new Italian Wordings file. Translated from English by Carmelo Battaglia

Fixes
• Fixed vertical frame jumping on varispeed interlaced material played as progressive
• Fixed audio levels in AAF exports potentially being incorrect when imported to Protools
• Fixed a number of problems with the import of 23.98 audio-only MXFs reporting bad shot-lengths and shot in/out point accuracy
• Fixed Bin contents not displaying after moving clips from the clip filter
• Fixed crash entering a negative value into the Blur effect amount
• Fixed display of stills when dragging the timeline - we now see every field for interlaced non-film originated material when set to interlaced output
• Fixed audio sample-rate factor independent of film-rate (correct audio speed playback in 60/50 projects)
• Fixed edit name not appearing correctly in the Content Manager after creating an edit of matches
• Fixed foreign Wordings files showing some text incorrectly
• Fixed timecode labels on source clips showing as ??? in new projects
• Fixed audio waveforms not being displayed correctly on smaller MOV files
• Show correct error message when user account hasn't been activated during software activation: ’Account has not been activated’
• Removed ’insufficient media’ message warnings on AAF export. Error was due to invalid shot-lengths created at import time
• Handled text field focus switching in a better way to avoid keyboard shortcuts obliterating text field information
• Added keybinds for adding a video track and/or audio track
• Added a keybind for ’Align Marks’
• Fixed potential crash clicking a tile in the content manager 'current' tab whilst playing back the record edit
• Fixed pasting text using the right mouse paste submenu option not work correctly
• Fixed accuracy of varispeed value calculation (e.g. 50% being imported as 48% etc) with AAF imports
• Fixed negative varispeed not working correctly with AAF imports
• Fixed incorrect In/Out points when a varispeeded segment followed a transition with AAF imports
• Fixed varispeed representation in AAF exports (it was incorrect when imported to Avid)
• Fixed varispeed in AAF imports from Avid
• Fixed potential crash marking and parking an effect and deleting it
• Fixed potential crash double clicking text in a text field of a bin and then dragging
• Fixed playhead jumping on multicam edits after pressing Stop
• Fixed inactive transport controls after clicking a tile into a viewer that has played to the end
• Fixed video wipe transitions in AAF exports to be recognized by Avid
• Fixed jump in displayed still on hardware output when play stops
• Fixed viewer/output sync with Blackmagic Decklink hardware
• Disabled the automatic full screen mode on new installations
• Fixed Film Cut List exports failing
• Fixed Auto frame rate projects incorrectly setting the in-camera speed option to 24fps when importing 50/60fps files
• Added keybind for dumping memory/iReclaimable usage to error.log
• Fixed exporting to a file path that includes special characters such as ’äöå’ not working correctly
• Fixed crash copying more than one group to another project
• Fixed uninitialized data affecting TapeMob, Timecode and Editrate in AAF exports
• Fixed Mark/Previous Cut behavior requiring two presses when using a console
• BITC panel now refreshes when another tile is clicked into the open viewer and the BITC panel is left open
• Avoided potential hang when two threads attempt to create the clipboard edit at the same time
• Tear off timecode is now always topmost. This avoids errors when the timecode label appeared behind the viewer
• Prevented pop out original function opening the files in the content manager with the config entry present
• Changed warning message of 'missing filemob' to more informative message on AAF import
• Fixed Empty Cut shortcut keybind (C) not working
• Fixed tear off timecode no longer being editable
• Fixed crash using ’Pop out tile’ shortcut keybind
• Fixed drag and drop Insert
• Fixed new bins not being listed in the Content Manager when right-clicking the bin tool and choosing 'make new bin'
• Fixed potential hang clicking undo after adding BITC
• Replaced JPEG background images with new PNG images
• Fixed audio WAV files potentially not playing despite files being online and accessible
• Fixed double clicking a tile to a viewer not working properly if ’Link bin tiles to viewers’ is set to ’No’
• Fixed potential crash handling lines greater then 32k in length
• Fixed ProRes MOV files created by Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera (BMPCC) importing as audio only
• Removed obsolete ’Permissions’ menu item on edits in shared projects
• Fixed crash editing Wordings file in the System Settings panel
• Fix crash double-clicking a tile after enabling record mode for a source edit
• Fixed ’Use marked section’ option being ignored when saving an export preset
• Brightened the color of the ’Marked duration’ timecode label
• Removed 44.1 kHz and 32 kHz audio setting options on Blu-ray and AVCHD export options
• Removed the column size restriction between bin lists and bin content in the content manager
• Bin names are now one font size when resizing the column divider between bin lists and bin content
• Added sensible mouse cursors when hovering over editable fields on the search panel
• Added config entry for more contrast/pronounced appearance on column edges: column_edge_color_adjust 0.2 (Default value is 0.2. Larger values (eg. 0.5 will make it look brighter))
• Fixed error in timeline track Sync/loss number (Bug#399)
• Added keybind for ‘Show project everything’
• Automatically correct the frame rate on newly created edits in an Auto frame rate project
• Fixed Keyframe jump button not working after changing a keyframe parameter
• Fixed presence of ’Original-audio timecode’ and ’Take’ in AAF exports
• Fixed Video Output setting affecting the audio replay rate of MXF audio imports
• Fixed failure to import all tracks of some compound MXFs in AAF imports
• Fixed Drag and Drop of tiles from one bin to another not showing the tiles until the bin is resized
• Fixed manual bin reordering on torn off groups reflecting in the content manager list
• Fixed crash switching bins (when leaving the mouse over a tile which occurs in the next bin in the same position)
• Fixed Next/Previous Bin Tile shortcut key not working correctly on bins set to manual positioning
• Fixed Export/Render failures to MOV on drives with 16k sector size
• Search tabs in the content manager now correctly disappear rather than showing an empty tab
• Revamped the config.dat file and included common entries by default
• Added keybinds ’Bin : Next in group’ and ’Bin : Previous in group’
• Added config.dat entry ’sorted_racks 0’ This allows users to manually reorder torn off groups which reflects in the Content Manager list
• Prevent a closed group from opening when dragging a bin into it that is not currently open
• Fixed Export/Render failure to AVI on drives with a 16k sector size
• Fixed incorrect varispeed value on clip inserted using Fit to Fill
• Fixed tear off timecodes not working correctly after changing the start timecode
• AAF export: sub-clips are now assigned a persistent Mob ID to improve Avid linking
• Automatically enabled text editing for newly created bin names
• Respect Content Manager sort-order in 'Bin : next/prev' keybinds
• Do not show Content Manager bins as tagged when they aren't
• Added keybind ’Make source into edit’, which inserts the source clip into a new record edit, closes the source and opens the new edit in the same position
• Fixed very large image sequences not importing correctly
• Fixed audio mixer panel still referring to subclips/syncs as Ghosts
• Fixed crash exporting embedded AAFs
• Fixed consolidation of audio correctly in OMF/AAF exports
• Fixed image-sequence exports failing for edits with names containing path characters
• Fixed ALE-import MXF file-coalescing independent of project output video format
• Fixed ALE-import Strict setting failing to import media
• Fixed problems with ALE-import MXF-coalescing
• Fixed Timecode incorrect when modifying an edit timecode using a torn off label
• Fixed potential crash importing 29.97fps and 23.98fps files into an ’Auto’ frame rate project
• Updated the .Room file in the ’Coffee’ demo project to remove pinned items
• Fixed missing Effects Favorites icon when thumbnails are turned off on the Effects settings panel
• Fixed Clipboard not updating correctly after an edit operation if the timeline marker has been moved on the Clipboard
• Fixed panels jumping to a new position after a chord click operation
• Prevented inline effects from being created where they are not valid
• Fixed crash with overlapping crop values on the image key effect
• Fixed source viewers getting linked together incorrectly when dragging tiles to viewers
• Fixed Auto frame rate projects incorrectly setting the in-camera film speed to 24fps when importing using Copy Local or Transcode
• Fixed incorrect audio speed on DVD 29.97 exports in a 24fps project
• Fixed export panel incorrectly remembering the wrong audio export setting
• Fixed Subclips not being found when searching for both Edits and Subclips
• Fixed version 11 projects preventing application startup
• Fixed effects generated by versions of the software in different installation folders
• Fixed invalid DVCPro100 MOV exports
• Fixed groups torn off from the content manager list failing to display
• Fixed timeline marker moving to a new position after dragging and dropping an unfolded Effect
• Fixed incorrect image scaling on Sony XAVC sample files
• Fixed timeline marker and In/Out points persisting when moving to bins
• Added new tab appearance to the settings panel for Wipe effects
• Fixed incorrect behavior of Jog Right/Left which would affect ShuttlePro use
• Fixed inability to rename a Group from within the content manager
• Fixed Bins not being copied successfully from one group to another
• Fixed potential crash exporting to AAF if the edit contains clips from a multicam bin
• Fixed crash using ’Find clips to fill edit’ when selecting from a target bin
• Fixed missing ’ICG’ error messages
• Fixed potential crash exporting an embedded AAF
• Fixed crash importing an AAF with associated media in the same folder
• Report an error if WAV exports would exceed maximum size limit
• Changed Lightworks target on AAF export to be the only target that exports the full alternate clip list from the multicam bin.
• Added 'Freeze frame' keybind (which holds the first frame of the marked region until the end of the region, or the next segment, whichever comes first. If there are no marks, it holds the current frame until the end of the segment)
• Fixed AAF export failing with ’Error Code 1’ on some edits
• Fixed incorrect video image when using Blend effect on image sequence
• Fixed potential crash clicking the ’Video only’ tab in the ’Clips’ filter of the Content Manager
• Fixed import of steroscopic files V1L/V1R failing to output any 3D option (reimport is necessary)
• Fixed potential crash scrubbing the edit timeline with multiple V tracks and a multi tabbed effects panel open
• Prevented project unarchive rejection on frame rate grounds
• Removed MDA creation from exports with separate WAV files
• Resolved missing primary timecodes for shots in AAF imports
• Fixed handling of unsupported/badly-formed constructs in AAF imports to report errors to the error.log
• Fixed Unfolded effects not being removed from the effect settings panel when clicking the ’X’ icon
• Fixed potential crash enabling Keyframes on color gradients and matte Effects
• Fixed incorrect ordering of multiple V tracks in AAF exports
• Fixed Keyframe points not appearing on the Effect Settings panel
• Fixed EDL Track Mapping and Advanced Options not persisting correctly on user presets
• Fixed AAF problems with export of offline clips. These problems were manifesting as missing primary timecodes
• Fixed incorrect XML standard being exported (was exporting LWXML instead of FCP Version 5)
• Fixed incorrect handling of offline media when importing XML files
• Fixed thumbnail appearance of CinemaDNG files on the import panel
• Fixed XML export causing a duplicate edit to be created in the project
• Fixed crash making Kemrolls from a bin
• Fixed Multi V track edits with effects not playing back correctly
• Fixed Automatic naming on XML exports to append a number when encountering the same export name
• Fixed particular Avid DNxHD MXF sample not playing back correctly
• Fixed incorrect analysis of files during import (1080p files importing as 1080i)
• Enabled audio level drag and drop in the edit timeline even when segment_drag_size is set to 0 in the config.dat file
• Added pagination to XMLs generated from Lightworks
• Added support for reading of Merged clips from FCP7 in an XML
• Added information to XML export option to show which format is being exported (FCP7 version 5)
• Fixed XML exports failing to import into Blackmagic Resolve
• Fixed user defined background images not persisting when exiting and restarting the application
• Fixed audio track on A1 disappearing when dragging the corresponding A2 track of a clip on the edit timeline with ’Drag/drop track sync’ turned on
• Fixed audio pop during playback and exports on sections of an edit containing audio levels fading to mute
• Added option to XML export to use the original filename from the .ED5 in the XML for clips that have been copied locally or transcoded on import
• Fixed AVI, MOV and MXF Compression options not updating correctly when switching between SD and HD Formats
• Fixed Alpha channel and color not being registered correctly on BITC overlays
• Fixed incorrect black frame at the beginning of reverse varispeeded segments
• Updated initial Licensing/Welcome panel
• Prevented application lock out when a corrupt room .TGA fails to load
• Fixed 'Awaiting rendered media' appearance for assistant applications
• Fixed incorrect effect overlay if the Start/End of an edit is marked when dragging an dropping an effect
• Fixed incorrect image appearing on the record edit viewer when trimmed beyond the clip bounds
• Fixed jitters starting playback with higher resolution material (XAVC)
• Fixed pop out original function not working correctly on a bin set to List view
• Fixed incorrect aspect ratio on ProRes 4K DCI MOV sample
• Fixed duplicate entries appearing in the Macro list
• Fixed ALT Gr keyboard shortcuts not working with French (Belgium) keyboard setups
• Fixed playhead jumping to the incorrect position when pressing stop after reverse playback (Multicam edits only)
• Fixed incorrect black rectangle on DVE fade to black
• Fixed incorrect display of Sync timecodes in List view bins
• Fixed failure to import and play MXF files with unusual edit index rate
• Fixed potential crash importing MXF files with ’Detect split MXF files’ is set to ’Yes’ on the import panel
• Fixed linking to coalesced A-only clips with AAF imports
• Fixed audio effects turning red in an edit after adding an audio crossfade
• Renamed the ’Manage licenses’ button on the System Settings panel to ’Activate license(s)’
• Updated the message users receive when they attempt to activate a license from within the application
• Updated the copy logs message to include ’Skip all’ option
• Ensured that source logs are unchanged when copying logs between projects
• Changed default setting of ’Detect split MXF files’ from ’Yes’ to ’No’ on the import panel
• Fail XML export gracefully when encountering illegal characters within the Reel ID column and identify the offending clip
• Fixed tiles in bins losing their Mark/Park when exiting and re entering the project
• Fixed tiles showing the incorrect position in the content manager when searching by timecode
• ’Auto sync with record edit’ setting is now remembered when jumping between different multicam bins

Windows Fixes and Features
• Added further improvements to DirectX handling on new Windows installations
• Fixed potential crash creating/deleting a 50/60fps project
• Fixed potential crash exiting the application with the Mackie audio mixer connected
• Fixed startup issues on Windows XP (Windows XP officially not supported)
• Fixed installation errors when new Visual C++ libraries are installed
• Suppressed restart option for Visual Studio Redistributables
• Updated background images again to allow compatibility on Windows XP
• Updated to MainConcept SDK 9.11
• Updated to MainConcept Transcoding SDK 3.5
• Fixed inability to add a Boris effect to a V2 track if V1 is deselected
• Fixed crash on startup with 4K Blackmagic card (with serial port)
• Fixed Boris FX becoming unrecoverable if applied in the 64bit version then opened in the 32bit version of Lightworks without the plugin installed
• Fixed AJA Kona 3 I/O devices not outputting correctly on Windows 7 64bit
• Fixed potential crash importing an AAF into the 64bit Windows version
• Fixed crash on exit when After Effects plugins are installed
• Improved the anti-aliasing on the Lightworks Title effect
• Fixed Material/Sound folders not being recognized when present in the root of drives
• Added multiple Boris FX Effects templates
• Added multiple Boris Graffiti Effects templates
• Fixed Matrix Wipes shifting the image Up and Left

Linux Fixes and Features
• Fixed large error.log files causing slow application starts
• Fixed incorrect memory handling on Linux systems without a Swap partition
• Fixed tiles snapping to the incorrect position in Bins set to manual positioning
• Fixed possible crash when restoring the normal mouse cursor after displaying the hourglass/busy cursor
• Fixed UI redraw issue on startup
• Fixed color correction and 3D-DVE effect not displaying the video image correctly
• Fixed arrow key release for frame stepping event not being handled correctly
• Fixed memory handling which could result in very poor playback
• Fixed audio buffer memory leak if Linux audio isn't working
• Fixed Wipe effect not appearing correctly during playback after having first being applied
• Fixed text appearing truncated on the Lightworks Title effect
• Fixed Matrix wipe effect not working

Mac OS Fixes and Features
• Fixed potential crash exiting the application with the Mackie audio mixer connected
• Fixed large error.log files causing slow application starts
• Fixed application error with developer signing on startup
• Fixed Lightworks Console failing to initialize correctly on application startup
• Ensured Console com port is closed regardless of whether com port thread is running (resource busy error?)
• Fixed window positioning not being remembered when closing the application
• Fixed tiles snapping to the incorrect position in Bins set to manual positioning
• Fixed possible crash when restoring the normal mouse cursor after displaying the hourglass/busy cursor
• Fixed crash moving the render preview window, closing it, then opening it again
• Added missing mc_fhg_enc_aac.framework Transcoding SDK
• Added Extra OpenGL safety to stop potential random crashes
• Fixed uninitialized data causing video to export as black frames on clips with Boris FX/Graffiti added
• Fixed Fit to Fill shortcut not working (ALT V) Re-import of the .Prefs file will be required
• Fixed potential crash on exit
• Prevented being able to bind a shortcut key to ’Command + Q’
• Fixed color correction and 3D-DVE effect not displaying the video image correctly
• Fixed potential crash opening and closing the toolbox
• Fixed inability to unfold an inline effect Limitations and Known Problems in Version 12.5
• Fixed crash attempting to import Cineform AVI files
• Fixed crash exporting to WebM Format on OS X 10.8
• Fixed incorrect audio output from Blackmagic I/O devices on Mac OS X 10.9
• Fixed AJA Kona 3 I/O devices not outputting correctly on Mac OS X 10.9
• Fixed AAF automatic media relinking for media in the same folder as the AAF/XML
• Fixed Wipe effect not appearing correctly during playback after having first being applied
• Fixed potential random crash pressing play either immediately after application start or playing in trimview
• Fixed panels appearing behind the video portion of viewers
• Added multiple Boris FX Effects templates
• Added multiple Boris Graffiti Effects templates
• Added correct version numbers to the error.log for 10.10 (Yosemite) and 10.11 (El Capitan)
• Improved OpenGL handling to help with Boris integration
• Fixed Matrix wipe effect not working

Limitations and Known Problems in Version 12.5
The following limitations and known problems have been identified in this release: “Cross Platform” on page 15 “Windows 64-bit” on page 15 “Windows 64-bit” on page 15 “Linux 64-bit” on page 16 “Mac 10.9 and 10.8.2 (Mountain Lion)” on page 17 “Matrox Hardware I/O” on page 17 “Blackmagic Hardware I/O” on page 17 “AJA Hardware I/O” on page 18 TP-00236-01 15 Lightworks v12.5 Release Notes Cross Platform
• Lightworks Bins generated in 11.5 and higher, may show duplicate entries when the project is opened in version 12.
• AVCHD files imported into version 12 will be black in previous versions (11.5.2) This is due to the indexing files. You should delete any .vix/.lvix files
• Some MTS files will show pixelation on the start frames.
• There is currently no way of searching for Groups
• MTS files with two video streams (3D) will cause the MainConcept decoder to crash and Lightworks to close. This issue has been raised with MainConcept
• Duplicate log entries on the export panel when an edit viewer and timeline are open
• The screen capture function is not currently working
• CDDA ripping is no longer available
• Potential crash importing QTRef files
• Video analysis tool appears through the FX configuration panel when configuring a color correction effect
• Potential crash importing WMV files
• Audio monitor delay setting will not be accounted for during export
• Cannot record SD/HDV through Firewire
• Avid DNxHD 10bit encode is not possible
• Make sure any other applications are closed before attempting to install Lightworks
• Video track can turn red after removing certain FX
• .VOB files appear as ’Sound’ only on the import panel, but yet import with picture. Performance will be slow
• Image quality on playback may be poor when project card set to NTSC Fields
• You will not be able to transcode 1080p 60fps files on import to Avid DNxHD (MPEG AVI works correctly)
• Blu-ray VC1 export does not generate a valid file. It imports back as Sound only
• Audio on exported AVCHD files cannot be played by Windows Media Player it is just mute
• The Record panel format must match the output format for successful recording to take place Windows 64-bit
• There is no QuickTime Movie/MPEG4 import/export via Apple SDK
• After Effects plugins are not supported
• Audio content analysis is disabled Windows 32-bit
• If the Matrox VFW codecs are installed on a Windows 8/8.1 system then you will not be able to open the export panel. These codecs may also prevent Lightworks from starting. You should uninstall the VFW codecs for the time being
• Audio VU meters may display incorrect levels when in Standby mode on Voice Over recordings. Recordings will be correct
• Error during startup when Matrox MTX utils installed ’error copying Matrox DSX driver’. You need to turn off User Account Control (UAC) in Windows
• Image on viewers and SDI output may look very poor on old ATI graphics card when set to 10-bit precision Linux 64-bit Tested distros (Other distributions may work, but have not been tested):
• Debian Distros:
• Ubuntu/Lubuntu/Xbuntu 14.04 and higher
• Mint 17 and higher
• RPM Distros:
• Fedora 20 and higher
• There is no Firewire support
• There is no QuickTime Movie/MPEG4 export option
• There is no Mackie Audio Mixer support
• There is no .WMV import
• ATI and Nvidia cards are supported. EditShare recommends Nvidia for the best performance
• Blackmagic AVIs will not import
• Cineform AVIs will not import
• Fraps AVIs will not import
• There is no FX plugin support
• Files will be not highlighted in a folder when clicking the Location links on filecards or bins
• You have to use 'Alt+Ctrl' (for Linux) in place of 'Alt' (for Windows) modifier for keyboard short-cuts.
• No audio imported from OMFs (that do have embedded audio)
• Image Sequences are slow to export
• AAF exports will import with audio off-line
• Relaunch button does not work after the application crashes
• Audio may not be present on some Uncompressed AVIs
• Do not use linux default GFX driver. If you experience the viewer playing at a reduced size then the Linux default graphics driver is installed. Make sure the Nvidia driver is loaded an the system is restarted Mac 10.9 and 10.8.2 (Mountain Lion)
• Any users running Macbook Pro systems MUST disable ’Automatic graphics switching’ under ’Energy Saver’ in the ’System Preferences’
• Lightworks will only run and 10.8.2 (Mountain Lion) and above
• There is no H.264 MOV export
• There is no QuickTime/MPEG4 export option
• There is no Voice Over functionality
• There is no .WMV import
• There is no Apple ProRes 4444 export option
• There is no MPEG AVI option on Record/Render/Transcode/Export panels
• There is no support for Matrox I/O hardware
• The shared project feature is not currently working
• Video overlay may change brightness on playback when running dual monitor setups
• Full screen preview is scaled incorrectly for the secondary monitor (when the primary monitor is retina display) This is a QT issue. Matrox Hardware I/O
• If your system is not fast enough or does not have enough memory, the captures using MXO2 will stop with a ’dropped-frame’ message
• If the drives you are recording to are not fast enough the captures using MXO2 will stop with a ’dropped-frame’ message Blackmagic Hardware I/O
• Input or Output only devices cannot be used. Lightworks requires both an Input and an Output to be present on the device.
• USB 3.0 devices may not work correctly on a Mac running Windows Bootcamp
• Audio monitor level control has no effect on Blackmagic recordings
• You will not be able to view video on the Blackmagic output if Precision is set to 10bit. Change to 8bit
• You will not be able to view video from Boris Red via the Blackmagic Output when Lightworks is running
• SDI Output does not playback smoothly if a title has been applied to the material
• A video signal must be present in order to record an audio signal AJA Hardware I/O
• Audio monitor level control has no effect on AJA recording
• There is no E-E when using the KONA LHi during recording
• You may need to restart the AJA service if the I/O is not working correctly. Start > Services > Restart AJA Device Service
• If your system is not fast enough or does not have enough memory, the captures using AJA devices will stop with a ‘dropped-frame’ message
• If the drives you are recording to are not fast enough, the captures using AJA devices will stop with a ‘dropped-frame’ message
• AJA/BMD SDI Output does not playback smoothly if a title has been applied to the clip
• Kona 4G I/O cards are not currently supported


Version 12.0.2 Release on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X is now available to download!

This latest version of Lightworks is purely a maintenance release for version 12. The 12.0.2 release includes support for Blackmagic Fusion 7.5 and addresses two very long standing issues of sending audio levels in an AAF to a Protools session, along with support for Boris FX plugins within the 64bit Windows version. The full list of fixes and features can be found in the Release Notes document page.

Accompanying the new version are several new tutorial videos: Working with the Video Routing panel, Working with the Audio Mixer Panel and Working with Effect keyframes

Users running 12.0.2.x Beta builds will need to update to this release build. It is strongly recommended that users backup their project folder before installing any new build of Lightworks.

To celebrate this latest release we are offering the Lightworks Pro Yearly license with an extra 6 months free until the 2nd January 2015. www.lwks.com/shop

Version 12 of Lightworks introduces some incredible new features to the application. Primarily the Content Manager which is a very useful way of managing all your media, edits and bins in a sensible way so that you can always find your media or your bins easily.

To help bring users up to speed with the latest changes in version 12 we have produced several tutorial videos including a Quickstart Video which we recommend users watch to get up to speed with version 12 of Lightworks.

Some of the exciting new features in version 12 can be seen below:

Added new Content Manager structure
Bins and Groups (previously racks) are now all visible within the content manager
Multicam Bins (previously Sync groups) are now all visible within the content manager
The Search function has been incorporated into the content manager (click the magnifying glass)
Added Clips, Subclips, Prints, Syncs, Edits, Searches, Everything and Recent filters to the content manager
Added ability to create and edit Filters
Added ability to create Filters based on search criteria and manage them
Added the ability to drag/drop files from the OS directly into an open bin (cannot import to Filters)
Added the ability to import directly into an existing bin (cannot import to Filters)
And much more!
Optimised the drawing pipeline. Any/All UI elements are now drawn more efficiently (less laggy)
Rewritten the Lightworks Play engine to remove the need for the Display Optimisation Field/Frame button
Added improvements to the export panel to make it easier to select a format for export
Added entirely new Blur effect to the Effects panel
Added powerful new Colour Correction
Added powerful new Selective Colour Correction
Added support for Blackmagic Fusion 7.5
Added import of FCP7 XMLs
Improved responsiveness for image display when moving the timeline marker
The full list of fixes and other improvements in version 12 can be found in the Release Notes document


Version 12.0.1 Release on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X is now available to download!

This latest version of Lightworks is purely a maintenance release to address several issues that were raised over the last few weeks. The most important of these issues were performance problems with Linux Kernels 3.14 (and higher) plus sync output issues using Blackmagic hardware. The full list of fixes and features can be found on the Changelog page.

With this latest release we have also included new Colour Correction Preset effects along with 12 new sound EQ presets. Accompanying these presets are new tutorial videos covering all the FX improvements in version 12, including how to get the best out of the new presets, with detailed descriptions of how and when to use them: www.lwks.com/videotutorials (Videos will be live shortly)

The Lightworks Forum is an important resource for new and experienced users and it has finally received a much needed makeover: www.lwks.com/forum The whole look and feel has been changed to bring it more up to date and to give users a better experience, making it feel cleaner and less cluttered. We have also renamed two of the buttons on the menu bar for clearer explanation "Learning" -> "Tutorials" and "Support" -> "Help"

Users running 12.0.1.x Beta builds will need to update to this release build. It is strongly recommended that users backup their project folder before installing any new build of Lightworks.

Version 12 of Lightworks introduces some incredible new features to the application. Primarily the Content Manager which is a very useful way of managing all your media, edits and bins in a sensible way so that you can always find your media or your bins easily.

To help bring users up to speed with the latest changes in version 12 we have produced several tutorial videos including a Quickstart Video which we recommend users watch to get up to speed with version 12 of Lightworks.

Some of the exciting new features in version 12 can be seen below:
Added new Content Manager structure
Bins and Groups (previously racks) are now all visible within the content manager
Multicam Bins (previously Sync groups) are now all visible within the content manager
The Search function has been incorporated into the content manager (click the magnifying glass)
Added Clips, Subclips, Prints, Syncs, Edits, Searches, Everything and Recent filters to the content manager
Added ability to create and edit Filters
Added ability to create Filters based on search criteria and manage them
Added the ability to drag/drop files from the OS directly into an open bin (cannot import to Filters)
Added the ability to import directly into an existing bin (cannot import to Filters)
And much more!
Optimised the drawing pipeline. Any/All UI elements are now drawn more efficiently (less laggy)
Rewritten the Lightworks Play engine to remove the need for the Display Optimisation Field/Frame button
Added improvements to the export panel to make it easier to select a format for export
Added entirely new Blur effect to the Effects panel
Added powerful new Colour Correction
Added powerful new Selective Colour Correction
Added import of FCP7 XMLs
Improved responsiveness for image display when moving the timeline marker
The full list of fixes and other improvements in version 12 can be found in the Release Notes document


Fixes and Features in Version 12

This section summarizes the Fixes and Features that have been implemented in
Lightworks 12. See the following topics:
• “Cross Platform Fixes and Features” on page 3
• “Windows Fixes and Features” on page 13
• “Linux Fixes and Features” on page 14
Cross Platform Fixes and Features
New Content Manager Structure
• Bins and Groups (previously racks) are now all visible within the Content Manager
• Multicam Bins (previously Sync groups) are now all visible within the Content
Manager
• The Search function has been incorporated into the Content Manager (click the
magnifying glass)
• Added Clips, Subclips, Prints, Syncs, Edits, Searches, Everything and Recent filters to
the Content Manager
• Added ability to create Filters
• Added ability to create Filters based on search criteria
• Added ability to manage Filters. To show/hide their visibility based on content
• Added ability to create new bins with the click of a button
• Added ability to create an empty Group
• Added ability to group bins together by highlighting them, right clicking and
selecting Make group
• Added ability to copy/move bins/groups to another project simply by right clicking
them
• Added ability to move between previous and last bins with the arrows (top left of the
Content Manager)
• Added ability to show Current items from the edit timeline (Recent Filter)
• Added ability to sort Bins by Date, Name or Type (Bin or Group)4 TP-00216-01
Fixes and Features in Version 12
• Added ability to view Bin in a new browser window
• Added ability to open Edits/Syncs/Prints made in the application in the Content
Manager recent filter
• Added the ability to hide the Content Manager Filter/Bin list
• Added the ability to tear off a Bin to the desktop
• Added the ability to create a Group Shortcut by tearing off a Group from the Content
Manager to the desktop (Appears like the old style Racks)
• Added the ability to see the contents of a selected Group as tabs along the top, when
the Filter/Bin list is hidden
• Added the ability to edit a user created Filter in the Content Manager
• Added the ability to drag/drop files from the OS directly into an open bin (cannot
import to Filters)
• Added the ability to import directly into an existing bin (cannot import to Filters)
• Added the ability for users to choose where to reveal new imports, in the Recent filter
or in the Searches filter (Import->cogs menu)
• Bins opened from the Group Shortcut open automatically with the Filter/Bin list
hidden
• Bin sizes are now remembered by the Content Manager (Automatic Positioning must
be set to No)
• Allowed multiple bins to be dragged from the Content Manger to a rack on the
desktop
Bin Modifications
• Creation Date will now always be the Lightworks creation date ie. import date, or
date of creation within lightworks
• Added 'Media Date' This will now show the actual creation date of the media itself
(when it's available)
• Added Frame rate bin column header
• Added aspect ratio bin column header
• Added Modified date bin column header (which you can also search by)
• Added Take bin column header
• Added the ability to create an empty edit from a bin
• Added "Loading" text to tiles in bins
• Added a message box when you create an edit or a bin to say the contents have been
saved automatically
• Added support for Alacrity-style bins
• Added Move/Copy labels to clips when dragging and dropping clips from one bin to
another
• Renamed Source Format column header to Media Format
• Renamed Location column header to Media Location (which you can also search by)TP-00216-01 5
Lightworks v12 Release Notes
Multicam Bin Modifications
• No longer automatically enter 'compact' mode when selecting 'Display viewers' You
can now highlight some tiles then just click 'compact' to replicate the old behaviour)
• We now store the size/positions of viewers, based on the number of viewers that are
visible - If you have 4 viewers visible we store that layout, if you have 3 viewers visible,
we store that layout separately -
• Added hide viewers function
• Added the ability for multicam viewers to appear when opening a multicam bin. Set
"Automatically restore viewers" to yes on the cogs menu
Improved Delete Panels on Bins
• The delete panels will now be the same whether selecting multiple bins, individual
bins or a selection of entries inside the bin
• Changed the wording on the delete panel to explain more clearly what will happen
with the deleted items
• Changed the options on the delete panel to explain more clearly what is being
deleted
• Included the number of Bin/Log/Media files that will be deleted
• Prevented users from deleting Logs only resulting in orphaned media
• Prevented users from being able to delete a bin when tagged entries are selected
• Renamed "Destroy" to "Delete"
FX Panel Enhancements
• Added tabs to the effects settings panel for multiple tracks
• Combined the effects sliders panel and keyframes panel into one
• Cleaned up the effects parameter appearance
• New effects can now be added from the effects settings panel
• Allowed effects to be dragged/dropped from the effects browser window to the
effect settings panel
• Some effects parameters are now collapsed/hidden by default
• Used F6 for revealing the effects settings panel (Lightworks.prefs file will need to be
reimported)
Search Panel Improvements
• Search fields can now be reordered
• Search panel can now be resized vertically
• Restored the ability to keep the search card open after a search6 TP-00216-01
Fixes and Features in Version 12
New XML Interchange
• Import FCP7 generated XMLs
• All XML imports will automatically link to existing media or import missing media
• All XML imports will use the media files in the same location as the XML if the path to
the media contained in the XML is not accessible
• Transitions are not currently supported
• FX are not currently supported
• Limited XML import to FCP7 version 5 XMLs only
General Fixes
• Rewritten Lightworks Play engine to remove the need for the Display Optimization
Field/Frame button
• Moved Clip references function from the Searchcard to a right click function on edits.
Find -> Clip references
• Renamed Sync Groups to Multicam Bins throughout the application
• Renamed Racks to Groups throughout the application
• Renamed Find Groups function to Find Bins throughout the application
• Renamed Groups on the searchcards to Bins
• Added Filename as a comment to EDL generation
• Added Auto-reveal for submenus (ie. hovering over a menu item for a short period
will now cause its submenu to appear)
• Changed keyboard shortcut F5 & F6 to show/hide the Content Manager
• Changed Drag and Drop import to automatically import the dragged file. Batch
import is still accessible by right clicking the import tool
• Changed Clipboard behaviour. When the Clipboard opens users can decide whether
the Clipboard automatically opens again next time or not
• Bin view option is now a toggle switch
• Improved background import to populate imported files in a bin as they become
available (Copy Local and Transcode only)
• Improved Make edit function from the Bin now opens the Recent filter in the Content
Manager
• Used 'Classic' console speed toggling behaviour by default
• Optimized the drawing pipeline. Any/All UI elements are now drawn more efficiently
(less laggy)
• Improved the low-level threading efficiency which helps to reduce the amount of
CPU time spent whilst idling (and at all other times)
• Removed any historic mention of Groups from within the application
• Render panel now pops to the top when it is hidden and the render button is pressed
• Fixed appearance of compression options on the transcode options of the batch
import panel
• Fixed Content Manager Filter>Bin boundary incorrectly scaling the bin width. You
can still force the old behaviour by holding down 'shift'
• Fixed Auto-reveal for submenus not working correctly after clicking a submenu item
• Fixed potential crash enabling and disabling Standby on the record panel repeatedlyTP-00216-01 7
Lightworks v12 Release Notes
• Fixed no image appearing on RAW .MOV sample files
• Fixed not being able to enter a project due to room lock without a name
• Fixed media folders not being created when changing the local project space
location
• Fixed viewer showing incorrect image for an offline file
• Changed Bin group key assignment to bring the current Content Manager to the
front and to open a Content Manager if one is not currently open
• Reordered the bin settings menu
• Used the background tasks mechanism to compile pixel shaders at startup
• Fixed crash using the find material function if "original audio filename" is ticked
• Fixed timeline size not being remembered correctly after closing and opening if the
individual tracks have been resized
• Fixed incorrect image when rendering 1080i as 1080p
• Fixed Reset all function on key assignments panel
• Fixed incorrect image on Image Sequence exports
• Fixed crash cancelling a transcode on import
• Fixed outline parameter on Titling effect not fading out correctly
• Fixed bin columns (audio rate/duration) not changing when project output-format is
changed
• Added Changelists panel to the key assignments
• Added "(H.264/MP4)" to the YouTube export option
• Added further improvements for entering a locked room
• Added the ability to cancel an ALE import
• Added ALE config.dat entries to import cogs menu
• Added WMV option to the export panel
• Added descriptions for many of the key assignable console functions
• Removed Reset Selected Category option from key assignments panel
• Removed Reset Selected Command option from key assignments panel
• Changed 'Mark all' key assignment to 'mark segment end'
• Updated the AVID and FCP keyboard .prefs files with the CMD functions on Mac
• ALT keyboard functions are now replaced by CMD functions on Mac
• Fixed timeline track size being remembered when closing and reopening a timeline
• Fixed concurrent players setting not working on multicam bins
• Fixed 1080p 23.98 exports being incorrect length if the audio sample rate is anything
other than 48khz
• Fixed incorrect image on UYVY AVI exports being (video pink and green)
• Fixed column resizing on the Cue panel
• Fixed drag and drop segment preview being incorrectly aligned prior to drop
• Fixed title text updating slowly during playback
• Fixed alphanumeric cue sorting
• Fixed cue panel redraw bug
• Fixed redraw error when renaming bins8 TP-00216-01
Fixes and Features in Version 12
• Fixed tooltip for empty edit
• Fixed Pop out original function so that tiles now open in the Recent filter Current tab
• Fixed deleting tagged cues from a sorted cue list failing
• Fixed potential crash playing a viewer with AJA or Blackmagic hardware
• Added the ability to drag out a tile from the Pop out original button
• Added improvements to the export panel to make it easier to select a format for
export
• Added entirely new Blur effect to the Effects panel
• Improved responsiveness for image display when moving the timeline marker
• New edit viewers now open next to source viewer
• Changed the ordering of the menu items when right clicking an effect on the
timeline
• Restored desired clipboard pop-out behaviour
• Prevented the Clipboard popping out in response to a cue addition
• Prevented the Clipboard popping out in response to an edit deletion
• Removed the FX Interval Update button on the Video tab of the project card. All
Effects are now Frame based
• Removed the Project Update button on the Details tab of the project card. Duration
and Audio Reply Rate now update on the fly
• The import panel is now larger by default on completely new installations
• Fixed potential crash mixing grouped audio levels
• Fixed potential crash playing viewers or tiles
• Fixed thumbnail images displaying incorrectly in bins
• Fixed fullscreen preview not working correctly for source/record viewer focus
• Fixed the incoming shot not updating during a trim if the previous outgoing shot is
offline
• Fixed crash inserting too much text into the Description section of the Cues panel
• Fixed crash deleting a clip after playing it
• Fixed moved cut trim to the left leaving incorrect image behind on the right hand
side of the viewer
• Fixed image frame flashing on viewer when pressing Stop
• Show 'Offline'/'Sound'/'Empty' correctly on all viewers/tiles
• Fixed long timeout with too much text in the description field of the Cue panel
• Fixed flash frames when pressing stop during a trim operation and general playback
if the vectorscope is open
• Fixed audio levels not being duplicated on grouped audio tracks when ungrouping
• Fixed redraw errors on the project card when a background task is present
• Fixed potential crash clicking the cogs icon on a bin
• Fixed crash selecting files in a bin and right clicking whilst an export is taking place
• Fixed image sequences not being detected correctly when dragging and dropping
into the application
• Fixed potential crash removing an effect during playback
• Fixed picture update when selecting/deselecting video tracksTP-00216-01 9
Lightworks v12 Release Notes
• Fixed thumbnail image not appearing on tile when dragging segment/range from
timeline to bin
• Fixed 75% white level in the color bars effect
• Fixed button width of restore button the restore edits panel
• Fixed undo/redo not redrawing the edit timeline correctly
• Fixed ProRes 4K MOV files importing as audio only
• Fixed 30fps being available for DVCPROHD exports (must be 29.97)
• Fixed EDL export failing due to Clipname/Filename Comments being enabled
• Disabled the import panel from being opened on the project browser screen
• Added the ability to choose thumbnail type to the project browser
• Ignored empty transient bins created in version 11
• Prevented unrelated viewers from popping to front when a another tile/viewer is
closed
• Fixed Rendering/Exporting a clip with a Title effect defaulting to original text
• Fixed EDL advanced panel scaling
• Fixed clicking undo redrawing the edit timeline correctly after mixing audio levels
• Fixed duplicated MXF clips being detected as stereoscopic on import
• Fixed AIFF samples failing to import
• Fixed potential crash scanning for network drives
• Changed ALE media-matching logic
• Avoided checking media offline status so often (drawing tiles/viewers)
• Don't do media offline checks when drawing the edit timeline in network projects
• Fixed crash dragging an audio effect from the effects panel to the edit timeline
• Fixed incorrect number of channels appearing on MXF audio imports
• Fixed macro renaming not updating in the key assignments list
• Fixed crash exporting as XDCAM EX 1080p 25fps Anamorphic
• Fixed crash on startup if a project .odb is missing but a .backup is present
• Fixed items not being removed from the batch import panel after starting import
• Fixed audio waveforms not being displayed correctly when zoomed in part way
through a file
• Fixed crash changing the project output format during playback
• Fixed image sequences not being detected correctly on the second import attempt
after a restart
• Fixed viewer image not updating on edit viewer when undoing an effect
• Fixed metadata added to Subclips in the Subclips filter of the content manger not
persisting
• Make YouTube exports suitable for streaming
• Added the ability to duplicate existing effects from the effects settings panel
• Added a 'Reset' function on the effects settings panel
• Upgraded to Main Concept 9.9 SDK on Windows, Mac and Linux
• Upgraded to Main Concept 3.4 Transcoding SDK on Windows, Mac and Linux
• Removed 720i format from Camera Formats export options list10 TP-00216-01
Fixes and Features in Version 12
• Explicitly save the project-database immediately after it's generated (as opposed to
when exiting the room/project)
• Removed Normalization and Grouping options from the audio tab of the project card
(To be reinstated at a later date)
• Fixed key assignment search
• Fixed being able to clear marks with the viewer 'clear marks' on a previously
deselected track
• Fixed TIF/JPG export failing with an empty V track
• Fixed Format selection from the drop down list on the import panel
• Fixed bin creation in search filters
• Fixed redraw error in timeline indicator area when resizing a viewer/timeline if a
mark/park is present
• Fixed dragging tiles out from a bin set to List view with the audio mixer panel open
• Fixed pop out original function not work correctly with Syncs
• Fixed 1280x1080 stills aspect ratio incorrectly detected
• Fixed crash viewing clipboard timeline if FX tracks are present with no V tracks
• Improved XDCAM EX MOV playback using up all available memory
• Ensure that mouse events are not passed to custom stills providers unless in the
picture area
• Paused background shader compilation if a shader is synchronously requested from
another thread
• Changed behaviour of the Replace button on edit/clip viewers (Now does Replace
and Next same as the on-screen console)
• Changed appearance of BITC feet/frames to show a "+" sign and not a "." between
footage and frames
• Changed appearance of BITC feet/frames to show two digits for frames
• Fixed crash exporting a bin of media as an AAF
• Fixed DPX thumbnails appearing incorrectly on the import panel
• Fixed XDCAM EX file structure showing an empty folder for some XDCAM EX folders
on the import panel
• Fixed Media format column showing no data for Blackmagic Cinema camera files
• Fixed incorrect aspect ratio on Blackmagic Cinema camera files
• Fixed waveforms not being drawn correctly on Syncs in an edit after making an
empty cut
• Fixed MP3 files failing to import due to uppercase extension (.MP3)
• Fixed potential crash during an export
• Fixed mouse grabbing of color ranges
• Fixed incorrect audio playing at a cut point if the audio monitor delay setting has
been enabled with hardware I/O
• Don't attempt to set a valid Blackmagic output if the display mode is not supported
• Make sure that routing-panel thumbnails update in response to time changes
• Ensure that the FX panel can be revealed (eg. via F6) when positioned on a segment
that refers to a sync/subclip
• Enhanced AAF import/export to include metadata: Shot, Who, Description, Notes,
Cam Roll, Lab Roll, Orig Audio Reel, Orig Audio Start, Sound TC and TakeTP-00216-01 11
Lightworks v12 Release Notes
• Fixed XDCAM 422 50Mb CBR MOVs importing as Video only
• Fixed crash cancelling a current effect render
• Fixed rendering a dissolve as a marked section resulting in a black clip
• Fixed scrolling in the Wordings panel not working correctly
• Fixed crash ungrouping source clip audio channels
• Fixed intermittent crash due to thread safety issue opening/playing audio
• Fixed Bin names losing their name highlight after using the Find bin function on a
shot
• Fixed Sort by options on the project browser
• Fixed the 'copy marked section' keyboard shortcut (so that it creates a subclip, not a
sync)
• Fixed incorrect pixel aspect ratio on DVCProHD MOV export/renders/transcodes
• Fixed incorrect audio output on Blackmagic I/O when set to 720p 24/23.98/30fps
• Disabled odd framerate options for YouTube exporter in 48fps projects
• Transcoded batch imports now silently populate bins after the first file completes
• Removed any mention of "Permanent" or old style "Groups" from the application
• Fixed 'Scene' metadata for AAF export and import
• Fixed potential audio drop outs and stuttering during playback
• Fixed crash entering the lobby (if in shared projects another station has a project
database open, or if the .ODB is open in an editor)
• Fixed .ED5s not being exported/restored from Lightworks Archives correctly
resulting in "Media Offline" and "Missing Logs"
• Fixed missing items in Lightworks Archive summary .ODB and add them back. Old
incorrect archives will now also be restored correctly
• Fixed reading the correct "Orig audio reel" data correctly from an AVID AAF
• Fixed audio clicking when playing back WAV files
• Fixed Color picker tool missing from Chromakey panels
• Fixed Pro Res 444 with alpha channel not revealing after applying Blend effect
• Fixed AAF export to include "original audio timecode" when generating an AVID AAF
• Fixed incorrect "original audio timecode" imported from AVID generated AAFs
• Fixed audio-only EDL exports to use the "original audio Reel ID" if "Original audio
timecode" is selected
• Fixed potential crash when generating EDLs from clips with very long names
("Clipname/Filename comment" enabled)
• Fixed potential crash making a sync from audio and picture clips in a bin
• Fixed incorrect label on edit timeline when deselecting a track
• Fixed pop out original function on source edits if a record edit is not present
• Fixed decoding of GV MOV samples (ai56 and ai5p)
• Added ALE track matching configuration
• Fixed audio checkerboarding on grouped audio tracks. Grouped tracks will now be
ungrouped automatically
• Fixed Toolbar appearing underneath other panels
• Fixed crash generating the bins cache file12 TP-00216-01
Fixes and Features in Version 12
• Fixed incorrect audio pop at the end of WAV imports in 24/30fps projects
• Fixed CTRL/CMD A in text fields including the Title effect
• Fixed mouse wheel no longer working on effects sliders
• Fixed DVD export failing in 24fps and 30fps projects
• Fixed missing options from DVD export
• Fixed edits being saved with erroneous levels-track metadata
• Changed the suffix for new bin names (based on the number of selected source bin
items)
• Prevented text disappearing when you have one very long line of text
• Subclips now inherit all metadata of the original take. This only works for newly
created subclips
• Syncs now inherit all text metadata of the original take. Timecode still to be done.
This only works for newly created syncs
• Restore projects function on the project browser now remembers the last used
location
• Automatically make transient bins from previous versions of Lightworks permanent
when running up version 12.0
• Show thumbnails for Lightworks archives when possible
• Show the correct Type for Subclips/Syncs in bins set to List view
• Repair edits with a surplus of levels tracks (rather than marking them as 'CORRUPT')
• Amended text on the expired licensing panel to account for users with subscriptions
• Changed the color of the Subclip flags from beige to blue
• Changed "Mark all" keyboard shortcut to "]"on all keyboard preference files
(Previously "Mark segment")
• Improved the tear off timecode feature. Left click and drag the timecode label, then
drag and drop it onto another label
• Fixed crash clicking the color picker tool
• Fixed hang using the search function in the Wording panel
• Fixed "Enter" key handling in the key assignments panel
• Fixed incorrect resizing on the Transcode Settings panel
• Fixed assistant-app panel border style
• Fixed crash clicking the Flatten Sources button on Assistant Applications
• Changed bin column entry from "Projstd" to "Default" in the Bin columns list
• Amended ALE duration comparisons when importing ALEs
• Added new keybindable 'Insert' variants which guarantee to preserve track sync
even when destination tracks are deselected
• Added an additional licensing panel that explains the licensing limitations when
activating Lightworks Pro
• Fixed potential crash clicking undo after making an effect modification
• Fixed Color dropper tool not working correctly on the Title effect
• Fixed crash clicking Mark when in Standby on the database record panel
• Fixed crash entering a project after adding a new effect and exiting
• Fixed output monitor not updating when clicking between tiles and viewersTP-00216-01 13
Lightworks v12 Release Notes
• Fixed potential crash recording from a database
• Fixed corrupted text in the Notes field of Filecards
• Fixed open effect panel not refreshing correctly after reconfiguring a render
• Fixed out of sync audio on exported files when exporting 25fps files in a 24fps project
• Edit timeline now opens by default when opening an edit from a bin
• Renamed the AAF media import linking option on the import panel settings menu
• Renamed "Make copy" on source viewers to "Make Subclip"
• Hide 'Output' option on the System Settings panel if Matrox hardware is not detected
• Fixed incorrect wording when closing the Clipboard
• Fixed incorrect AAF exports not exporting the audio data in the edit correctly
• Fixed Bin tiles appearing on top of one another when moving them from one bin to
another (Tiles view, auto positioning = No)
• Fixed Bin name highlighting not working correctly when dragging and dropping
media
• Added a setting for a default edit timeline that includes a set amount of system black
(To change the settings, right click the new edit tool, select "New edit settings")
• Added MJPEG decode (MOV/AVI) using FFMPEG for all platforms including Windows
64bit. This fixes various playback issues
• Edits created from bins now populate in that bin rather than a filter
• Fixed Focus is not transferred from text fields when right clicking
• Dragging a clip out from the "Make Subclip" icon on a source now makes a subclip
not an edit
Windows Fixes and Features
• Fixed Group creation/renaming in shared projects
• Fixed Incorrect image on thumbnail preview for QuickTime exports with marked
range selected
• Make sure that 'Occupied by ..' appears correctly for shared projects/rooms
• Fixed newly created Filters not appearing in shared projects
• Ensure that room thumbnails generated on Windows are opaque
• Fixed Cineform UHD files importing with the incorrect aspect ratio
• Fixed audio missing in A2 channel when transcoding Quicktime H264 .MOVs with
AAC audio on import
• Updated application with the new Lightworks Icon
• Enabled minidump creation for Windows 64bit
• Fixed edit containers not updating correctly in shared projects
• Fixed PNG image sequences being created when exporting as PSD
• Fixed potential crash mixing audio levels with a Mackie
• Changed OpenCL handling to allow Lightworks to start
• Use separate locations for system and user effect-templates
• Fixed crash if Matrox device driver doesn't match installed version
• Fixed 1080i output using AJA devices14 TP-00216-01
Limitations and Known Problems in Version 12
• Fixed crash recording ProRes MOV using Blackmagic or AJA hardware
• Fixed 1080i SDI images on the record panel through AJA showing horizontal tearing
Linux Fixes and Features
• Reinstated P2 AVCintra export option (no longer crashes due to new Main Concept
SDK)
• Reinstated RP2027 AVCintra export option (no longer crashes due to new Main
Concept SDK)
• Fixed DPX image sequence exports
• Updated application with the new Lightworks Icon
• Fixed track selection on viewers not working correctly
• Added a message on startup to tell users that they need to install the manufacturers
graphics card drivers in order to run Lightworks
• Fixed potential crash with vectorscope open


Fixes and Features in Version 11.5.2

Cross Platform Fixes and Features
• Fixed AltGr keyboard functionality on European keyboards
• Fixed wording on the licensing panels to show username instead of name
• Fixed inability to preview stereoscopic material on the full screen display (without
separate I/O)
• Fixed Avid DNxHD MXF exports not importing to Avid Media Composer via AMA or
Avid Media Tool scanning
• Fixed selecting multiple tiles in a bin after scrolling
• Fixed automatic updates in preparation for version 12
• Fixed potential crash recording using AJA, Matrox or Blackmagic hardware
• Fixed being able to modify/add effects on a read-only edit on a shared project edit
by right clicking a clip
• Added filename comments attached to EDL events
• Fixed ALE import to ignore looking at hidden files
• Fixed ALE import to ignore .mxf link files
• Fixed embedded AAFs no longer importing with audio
• Fixed potential crash mixing audio levels (with Mackie or mouse)
• Fixed incorrect audio output during audio mixing on grouped audio tracks
• Fixed EDL export failing due to Clipname/Filename Comments being enabled
• Fixed Lightworks task log panel not opening to display details of a failed ALE import
• Fixed moving bins between projects local/shared
• Added awareness of version 12.0 effect-data to version 11.5
• List bin names when doing inter-project copies/moves
• AAF exports now default to the edit name rather than a random cookie name
• Ignored link files and hidden files when scanning for candidate MXF files (for ALE
import), thus preventing potential crashes
• Prevented media offline checks when drawing the edit timeline in network projects
• Avoided checking media offline status so often (drawing tiles/viewers)
• Improved the ALE import procedure
• Fixed incorrect number of channels on audio MXF imports
• Fixed crash on startup if a project .odb is missing but a .backup file is present
• Fixed crash exporting a bin of media as an AAF
• Fixed incorrect audio playing at a cut point if the audio monitor delay setting has
been enabled with hardware I/O
• Enhanced AAF import/export function to include the following metadata:
• Shot
• Who
• Description
• Notes
• Cam Roll
• Lab Roll
• Orig Audio Reel
• Orig Audio Start
• Sound TC
• Take
• Enhanced AAF import function to default to using media stored in the same folder as
the AAF - if media in the AAF media locator cannot be found
• Fixed rendering a dissolve as a marked section resulting in a black clip
• Fixed intermittent crash due to thread safety issue when opening or playing audio
• Fixed crash entering the lobby (if in shared projects another station has a project
database open, or if the .ODB is open in an editor)
• Fixed .ED5s not being exported/restored from Lightworks Archives correctly
resulting in "Media Offline" and "Missing Logs"
• Fixed missing items in Lightworks Archive summary .ODB and add them back. Old
incorrect archives will now also be restored correctly
• Fixed reading the correct "Orig audio reel" data correctly from an AVID AAF
• Fixed potential audio drop outs and stuttering during playback
• Fixed incorrect "original audio timecode" imported from AVID generated AAFs
• Fixed audio-only EDL exports to use the "original audio Reel ID" if "Original audio
timecode" is selected
• Fixed potential crash when generating EDLs from clips with very long names
("Clipname/Filename comment" enabled)
• Added ALE track matching configuration
• Disabled error.log debug related to Mackie connections
Windows Fixes and Features
• Fixed audio not being imported when the file path contained non ASCII characters
• Improved Bin scrolling performance when using the Shared Project feature
• Fixed Undo/Redo not working in shared projects if the project space is a local hard
drive
• Fixed Cineform UHD files importing with the incorrect aspect ratio
• Enabled minidump creation for Windows 64-bit
Linux Fixes and Features
• Added libtiff5 dependency to support Ubuntu 14.04 - earlier versions of Ubuntu
(12.04) may no longer work

Fixed in Version 11.5.1

Cross Platform Fixes
• Fixed ProRes sample stuttering during playback
• Fixed potential crash returning to the project browser when there are outstanding
Thumbnail render tasks
• Fixed potential crash in release builds (primarily debug builds only)
• Fixed Rendering/Exporting not working correctly with multi level video tracks and FX
• Fixed stereoscopic 3D exports failing right at the end (when a few extra frames are
generated past the end of the item being exported)
• Fixed export of stereoscopic 3D edits always being left eye only
• Fixed potential crash adding audio tracks as stereo pairs
• Fixed 'balance' wording on the Color Correction effect panel
• Fixed being able to add effects from the "Mixes" category when right-clicking a
segment
• Fixed audio clicks when decoding AC3 audio (44.1 kHz)
• Fixed material vanishing from an open bin when moved from another bin
• Fixed potential crash rendering a rendered section
• Fixed copied local still images not being restored from an archive
• Fixed potential crash when the number of effects on a segment exceeds the height
of the track in pixels
• Fixed Matrox AVIs from After Effects displaying as black
• Fixed potential crash switching rooms with open bins
• Fixed Selective CC 'Color Picker' icon
• Fixed Alexa ProRes 4444 .MOV files importing with the incorrect aspect ratio
• Fixed 64bit version hanging with large amounts of MTS (H.264) media
• Fixed potential crash opening video preview window from background task list
• Fixed 'Auto' frame rate projects importing media with the incorrect Transfer method
• Added limited ALT-GR key mapping support
• Added 'Remove' option to audio transition timeline menu
• Added config for avoiding silence with certain kinds of trim
• Fixed potential crash using CTRL Z shortcut in text fields
• Fixed FX removal (when effect is on an FX track and it has a transition as in input)
• Fixed potential crash opening lots of small files containing AC3 audio
• Fixed Titling effect appearing on the list of licensed features
• Fixed ERROR 610, Corrupted MI and Invalid response from Licensing Server due to
invalid XML
• Fixed tiles in sync groups not updating after shuttling with the console
• Fixed AAF imports (with sub-clip compositions with no video track) to get incorrect
channel-number
• Fixed potential crash importing AVID AAFs
• Fixed AAF import to deal with multiple nested V-tracks (or indeed A-tracks)
• Added more detailed reporting of missing Composition Usage Code and associated
illegal sequence references in AAFs
• Added Save/Restore position of the video-analysis panel in room files
• Audio waveforms are now On by default
• Fixed audio pops and glitches in AC3 audio imports
• Fixed potential "License Expired" error due to timezones east from Greenwich
• Fixed audio not playing during an audio only trim
• Fixed timeline marker jumping to the wrong end of a clip when entering audio only
trim slip/slide mode
• Fixed YouTube export options when using non-standard wordings
• Fail to return a valid frame-rate on an AAF if an error occurs
• Removed 1080p60 and 1080p50 options from the YouTube export list, as they are
not supported by MainConcept
• Fixed Insert and Replace buttons not working correctly on edits used as sources
• Changed Remove/Delete buttons to Insert/Replace when taking an edit out of
record and vice versa
• Fixed templates created from effects on tracks other than the topmost track being
saved incorrectly
• Fixed sync groups showing out of sync with record edit when moving the timeline
marker
• Fixed crash importing OMFs
• Fixed folder creation when clicking Do it on the add media folder location on the
Media tab of the project card
• Fixed ability to save audio effect templates
• Fixed crash exporting WAV files from a bin of MP4 files
• Prevented multiple AAFs being opened at the same time when browsing to a
location that contains more than one
• Prevented the Record edit from simultaneously becoming the Source as well
• Fixed incorrect duration reported on .m4a audio samples
• Fixed tiles in bins potentially turning black randomly
• Fixed Undo/Redo buttons on the video routing panel
• Fixed incorrect wording on hover-over tip for timeline zoom buttons
• Fixed Tooltips set to Never reverting back to Fast after playing a viewer
• Fixed audio not importing from file paths containing unicode characters
• Fixed Syncs in sync groups not syncing to A1 timecode
• AAF import composition mobs with missing Usage Code are now defaulted to Edits
• Fixed hang calculating sync errors during certain trim operations
• Fixed 'Add >' effects for FX segments
• Fixed rendering being incorrect on varispeed samples resulting in a flash frame
• Prevented crash deleting edit tracks with an invalid audio mix
• Stopped repeated attempts to generate waveforms for missing files

Windows Fixes
• Added D3Dcompiler_43.DLL to our install directory to help avoid DirectX issues
• Added warning on startup that Shaders have failed to compile due to out of date
DirectX
• Fixed certain XDCAM MOVs importing as green images into 32bit version
• Fixed issues with Combustion workflow
• Fixed no audio channels when importing a file with non-ascii characters in its name
or path
• Launched plugins in a separate thread as require different COM threading (This fixes
timeline issues within Boris Red/FX)
• Fixed plug-in panel appearance when plug-in fails to load

Linux Fixes
• Fixed launching for ‘http’ document types


New Lightworks Release 11.5 Now Available

We are proud to announce the next release of Lightworks 11.5 is now available to download on Windows and Linux (.deb and .rpm) www.lwks.com/downloads

This is the next major release of Lightworks following on strongly from the success of 11.1.1 only a few months ago. This latest release has some incredible new features including:

Support for AJA I/O devices (Kona and Io XT) (Windows, Pro version only)
Import, Render and Export as background tasks
YouTube export option including direct upload
AC3 audio decode support removing the need for third party decoders
Fully customisable user interface
Smarter menus with fast access Export and FX favourites
Powerful new Multicam improvements
Playback controls added to source and edit viewers
And many more! The full list can be found here http://www.lwks.com/changelog


New Features in Version 11.1.1

The following features have been implemented in this version:
- Offline activation option when internet is not present
- Offline activation to the ‘manage licenses‘ button for offline-reactivation
- Improved offline activation to generate aC2E ?le when using the Manage licenses option
- Added chord-click solo-select behavior to viewer track buttons (ie. same as timeli ne buttons)
- Simpler sign-in when the only available license is a Pro Trial
- Added 24-bit audio export option to the export panel. Primarily for XDCAM HD SOMbps exports
- Added recognition of large tile sins in preparation for Lightworks 11.5 (previously called I 12)
- Added ‘Master’ scale slider to the image key effect
- Added BITC option for ‘top-level sub-dip‘ name (on the ‘edit texts‘ tab)

The following fixes have been implemented in this version:
- Fixed corrupted Ml issue (causing "internal error" during sign in)
- Fixed sign-in issues related to available network connections
- Prevented possible crash launching Premiere FX plugi ns
- Fixed failure to start due to osprivate.dll
- Fixed Prints showing media offline when inserted into a new edit
- Fixed linking to audio ?les on MetaSan 4k sector size drives (which appear as local drives)
- Fixed system analysis to prevent "internal Error" during activation
- Fixed audio files not being copied to the Sound folder when restoring from an archive
- Fixed ‘Doesn't contain‘ function on the References tab of the Searchcard
- Fixed incorrect audio on Sony IMX PCM ?les
- Treat de-interlaced progressive material as ?rst ?eld top
- Transfer focus to the source viewer following a double-click
- Fixed potential crash/crash on exitwith WAV ?lesthat have less audio than expected
- Fixed Add Effect ‘Category’ menu missing on the FX panel
- Fixed incorrect audio replay rate when importing 29.97fps clip into 24fps project
- Fixed Sync Groups potentially losing sync under particular circumstances
- Fixed potential crash using Offline activations
- Fixed truncated effect names (when they contain dots)
- Fixed showing black for plugin FX that have never been configured
- Fixed internal Error during activation when only a USB internet dongle is available
- Fixed audio corruption and sync drift on I080p23.98 XDCAM HD ?les when using copy local
- Fixed potential crash related to memory in the 32-bit version
- improved memory allocation
- Fixed AES audio in IMX ?les when using copy local
- Ensure that rack name changes are respected when using the cogs menu to set permanence (shared projects)
- improved rack updates/changes (shared projects)
- Avoid writing out bin data whilst it is being read on another system (shared projects)
- Fixed Blackmagic16."9 PAL recordings being recorded as4:3
- Fixed incorrect interpretation of MP4 material containing AES audio streams
- Fixed fatal heap memory corruption during recording with Matrox I/O
- Fixed incorrect timecodes on audio ?les when using batch imports
- Fixed XDCAM HD images turning pink and split screen due to MPEG422+Alpha images being present
- Do not attempt to save dirty edits in the case of a crash (eg. if crashing because of insuffcient memory, writing edits may be dangerous)
- Fixed byte-ordering in DPX timecodes
- Fixed cached reads of uncompressed AVls. Could cause a potential crash playing WAVs or Avis
- Fixed imported MP3 files having a duration of '77?‘
- Fixed license expiry-time display (1-day late expiring)
- Fixed memory fragmentation issues causing random crashing
- Fixed material being incorrectly deleted if a dip is imported from the Material folder and then deleted
- Fixed potential crash managing licenses
- Fixed incorrect ?eld order on interlaced imports (incorrect files will need to be re-imported into this version)
- Fixed reading of scan mode from Quicktime DV files (usually second ?eld top)
- Fixed frame delay between Lig htworks viewer and SDI output
- Fixed rendersof interlaced material in 1080Psf projects to Matrox YUW showing two images one on top of the other
- Fixed hang when pressing Stop on a sync group
- Allocated large object heap above 2Gb as an attempt to resolve randomly failing pixel shader compilation
- Fixed incorrect aspect ratio being read on 4:3 MP4 files
- Fixed MP4 ?les with AAC audio not importing
- Fixed 64»bit version running out of memory
- Clip audio levels to 12dB for all exports (Primarily AAFs to AVID)
- Fixed playout tool appearing incorrectly during playout
- Fixed Omneon ?les failing to import
- Fixed potential crash importing MXFXDCAMHD422 FFMBC sample
- Fixed being able to search for clips based on the hard drive location on the Search card
- Fixed potential crash undoing an effect in the video routing
- Fixed playback of image sequences
- Fixed potential crash if codec initialisation fails
- Fixed source surfaces being held after pixel shader is ?nished (using unnecessary GPU memory)
- Fixled potential crash entering projects (when encountering a subclip with an emptyG )
- Further improvements to 64»bit memory handling, including a con?g entry for memory to be reserved
- Introduced linking to material which had been previously imported using ‘copy-local‘ or 'transcode' for AAF import
- Fixed only one audio track being decoded on MP4 imports
- Fixed linking of imported AAF to shots imported with ‘create-Ii nk'
- Added ‘Clip name‘ option to Find Material function
- Fixed video image on the record panel flashing when in Standby using Blackmagic Codec (UYVY)
- Fixed H.264 .mov and MP4 ?les appearing incorrectly
- Updated to Main Concept Transcoding SDK 3.2 and LL SDK 9.7
- Fixed MXF audio (created by AVID) not playing back correctly
- Fixed media potentially disappearing and showing offline
- Fixed issue of two ?le readers competing for the same file metadata
- Fixed output on SDI when using the playout tool
- Fixed incorrect audio on multi channel MP4 sample
- Translate media links in AVID AAFs when referencing the "Avid MediaHles" folder
- Fixed user de?ned names for media locations
- Fixed potential crash using shared projects
- Fixed potential crash with empty project name
- Fixed playback of XDCAM SR MXF ?les
- Fixed potential crash leaving a project after disconnecting FX nodes
- Fixed loading of ?les with .jpeg extension
- Fixed potential crash opening the FX panel
- Fixed import of Mulitpage Tiff sample
- Fixed crash when dragging a timeline FX segment (whilst the edit is playing)
- Fixed SDI output being incorrect when doing live editing from a sync group
- Fixed import of four channel EDLs
- Fixed image key effect not scaling correctly
- Fixed import of Omneon MXF sample file
- Fixed Keyframe scale graph not working correctly
- Fixed FX losing their routing when dragging and dropping
- Fixed batch import panel defaulting to Copy Local on fresh installs
- Fixed Clipboard stripview Timecode track showing 7?? for Timecode
- Fixed Clipboard not working correctly when using the Replace function
- Fixed XDCAM 422 8-ch exports with information only on channel I
- Fixed Subclips not syncing byTimecode in Sync Groups
- Fixed in points being added incorrectly at the start of an edit when using undo
- Changed ?le reader for RAW .MOV ?les
- Changed All Avid-target AAFs to contain only one locator which is always in URL-format
- Added automatic backup of clip .EDS ?les when they are deleted
- Added awareness of new master scale para meter on image Key effect
- Fixed keyframes on Image Key scale to respect Linear/Non Linear setting
- Fixed image key effect not scaling correctly when exporting/renderi ng to differentresolutions
- Fixed ‘suppress re-link’ on AAF-import
- Fixed incorrect ‘audio replay rate‘ du ring AAF import (especial ly with 23.98/24)
- Fixed slight inaccuracies in shot-length, cut-point positions, cue-positions, and timecode-length when importing AAFs
- Changed AAF file locators on export for interchange with Blackmagic Resolve V10 Beta (local media only)
- Fixed incorrect audio replay rates when clips are imported during ?le import from AAF
- Changed EDL export to limit Reel IDs to 8 characters. Adding (edl_limit_reel_length 0) to the con? g.dat file disables this behavior
- Changed Reel IDs and 24P Reel IDs to default to the clip name if they're missi ng on nle import (rather than assigning a random cookie name)
- Fixed potential failure/crash on startup when unusual disks/devices are attached (RAMdisk)
- Fixed inability to change the Reel ID on the clip labels panel
- Fixed potential crash trimming video only track in 64bit build
- Fixed potential crash using Live Edit function with Matrox I/O hardware
- Fixed audio being out of sync during Live cutting (only audio from the first selected clip in the sync group will be heard during live cutting now)
- Changed LW.‘i'i' F in preparation for the next version of Lightworks 11.5
- Removed render option from the video routing panel
- Respect track selections when making a copy
- Ensure that items added to a project after the export tool was opened are exported as expected
- Prevent potential crash copying new logs from one project to another
- Fixed projects on shared workspace incorrectly receiving messageswhen deleting or updating logs
- Fixed incorrect ?eld ordering on interlaced material that has varispeed added
- Fixed issue where a project could lose its output format setting
- Fixed startup on Windows 8.1 using the 64»bit version
- Improved indexing on Long GOP ?les (MP4 and H264 MOVs) to reduce import time
- Fixed XDCAM EX sample importing with the incorrect audio
- Fixed frame repeats/skips when playing 30p/29.97p material in 30-frame projects
- Fixed pixelation and image breakup when scrubbing through and reverse playing XDCAM HD samples
- Fixed aspect ratio on M2TS samples when browsing on the import panel
- Fixed playback stuttering on XDCAM EX samples
- Removed the "possible corruption" message when exporting AAF with embedded audio (hitting the 2GB limit)
- Fixed pixelation and image breakup on Canon XF MXF samples
- Fixed sync on 30’29.97/25 material imported to 24»frame projects with NO telecine-transfer setting
- Fixed audio only clips not being restored from archives
- Link ?les are now included in Backup Archives regardless of options selected


New Features in Version 11.1.0

General
Added support for linking to audio rather than copying it locally
Added support for automatic re-linking to subclips when importing an AAF
Added outlining support for the titling effect
Added ability to enable/disable detection of split MXF files
Added support for subclips without V tracks on AAF import/export
Added ability to automatically flatten multi-level subclips to one level when exporting an AAF to Avid
Added ability to read and interpret Avid markers as cue points in Avid AAFs
Allow MP4/AVCHD (MTS/M2TS) media to be imported into the Free version as transcode only
Added User definable project/media locations to the licensing panel
Added import option to suppress material linking when importing AAFs
Changed Lightworks archiving. User now selects whether to include local media or linked to media
Added preliminary support for native H.264 MOV handling without Quicktime (work in progress)
Allowed compression format and destination disk changes when record panel is in standby
Added 'Don't fill sub-edits' selection box to the Find Material to fill edit panel
Added initial 48fps file support
Added 1080PsF 48fps as an output format
Re-structured AAF import to utilise existing material import mechanism when clips reference in the AAF do not exist in the project
Updated to RED 4.4 SDK
Added support for multiple decode qualities when using RED Rocket cards (previously limited by earlier SDK)
Added better RED R3D file decode performance using RED Rocket card
Added further improvements for R3D playback (4-5k images)
Added warning message when switching between versions that states that a project was created in a later version
The mouse-wheel now adjusts either a pair of FX keyframes (if the mouse is positioned between 2 keyframes) or one keyframe (if sufficiently close to it)
The mouse-wheel now adjusts all selected FX keyframes (if there are any)
Added the ability to search for wildcards ('')On bin search/replace Added support for Matrox 9.2 SP1 drivers
Added support for Matrox DSXLE3 range
Added Matrox 7.1.0.1294 End User driver support
Added ability to move FX nodes using the left mouse button on the video routing panel
Added ability to restore Milestones from the project browser Restore edit(s) function
Added ability to resize the Restore edit(s) panel
Milestones are now generated automatically when an edit is deleted
Added ability to drag a tile from out of the viewer copy icon (left click and drag) Added ability to drag single tiles to the New Edit, Bin and Sync Group tools
Added ability to auto unjoin all clips when unjoining a cut point using the mouse. This is now the default behavior, click the cogs icon and and set 'Auto unjoin' to 'No' to disable
Added ability to bypass auto unjoin by holding down ALT before clicking a cut point
Added indexing for MP4/H.264 MOV files to help with shuttling and reverse play of Long GOP files (creates lvix files)

ALE Import
Added support for linking to files through ALE Import. The ALE must reside in the parent folder of the media
The following enhancements have been made to ALE Import (Pro version only):
File location/Name is no longer required under the Filepath heading. The ALE just needs to be in the same folder as the media
Related Video and Audio tracks are now automatically synced together upon import to Lightworks
ALE must be stored in parent directory of media it is referring to for import to analyse the media
Creates auto-grouped audio-only clips. Primarily multichannel BVVAVs that have been extracted as separate .MXF files in the AVID MediaFiles folder
Included better logging during the import process to indicate why certain files cannot be imported
Included better logging during the import process to indicate which folders are being scanned
Avoid any subfolders starting with V
Ignore 'Mac OSX' subfolders during media scanning
Ignore 'resource.frk'subfolders during media scanning
Show ALE frame rate on the import panel
Respect Reel IDs when pairing media files

Projects
Added right-mouse click menu on Bin icon to display 'All Contents' from a project
Added ability to save local projects where ever a user decides (Pro version required)
Enhanced Mange Project Spaces panel on the project browser
Added new padlock icons to show the state of an edit when using shared projects (Green = Owned by you. Yellow = No owner. Red = Owned by another user)
Improved edit ownership list when using shared projects

Licensing
Added entirely new EditShare Licensing System (ELS) which replaces Sentinel HASP
Change licensing so that the user is not required to activate the free version if there is a network Pro-license available
Added ALE licensing option to the licensing panel
Merge Avid DNxHD codec into main Lightvvorks installer (Separate Avid DNxHD installer no longer required. A valid Avid DNxHD License is still required)
Ask user to go online if Internet Explorer is set to offline mode during Lightworks startup

Pro Version
Added support for Blackmagic I/O devices. Drivers v9.5 or higher are required. (Pro version required)
Added 64-bit Windows support. Please view the Limitations and Known Issues on Page 13. (Pro version required)
Media space management is now done using the disk tool. Users can specify any location for the Material and Sound folders (Pro version required)

Fixed in Version 11.1.0
The following fixes have been implemented in this version:
Fixed audio on 23.981080p MXF Avid DNxHD exports importing back in and playing at twice the speed
Fixed Avid DNxHD-TR MXF export not working correctly
Fixed a number of changes to the way we link to clips when re-importing
Prevent any attempts to 'copy-local' audio dips on AAF import
Fixed errors causing 'heap corruption' in a number of AAF functions
Fixed erroneous folders being created when creating a new project space
Fixed Pref file import when encountering empty lines
Fixed audio levels not moving when using ALT S shortcut
Fixed solo/mute functions from Mackie to be remembered after a trim
Fixed solo/mute functions from Mackie to be remembered when switching focus to another edit/shot
Fixed audio linking when using shared projects
Fixed Mackie Solo/Mute functions when audio mixer panel is not open
Fixed audio drag in fades from incorrectly appearing when inserting from a source that contains fades
Prevent import panel showing frame rate or other metadata if it has not been read from the file
Fixed all channels displaying the same information when linking to multichannel WAV file
Fixed audio corruption when transcoding a multichannel WAV file on import
Fixed record panel only allowing one audio connection option
Fixed crash opening recording panel when using Matrox I/O
Fixed audio on transcoded H.264 Mov files
Fixed sync issue importing from an ALE
Fixed audio replay rate on WAV samples
Fixed memory handle leak (handles continuing to increase)
Fixed crash opening an edit that contains 32 audio tracks
Fixed playback of 24-bit audio masquerading as 16
Fixed reading of audio files that have multiple single channel streams
Fixed potential crash resizing a viewer during playback
Fixed image on SDI output of Blackmagic when set to NTSC
Fixed 23.98fps Quicktime exports showing up as 24fps
Fixed panels jumping around after a right/left click operation
Fixed Rack behavior when adding bin to a rack within a rack
Fixed incorrect audio replay rate for 23.98 .MXF audio samples
Fixed incorrect filename showing on BWAV imports
Fixed reading of Reel ID from MXF files on import
Fixed issue with playback stopping on the fullscreen output when moving the mouse
Fixed exit icon not appearing on full screen playback
Fixed Alpha setting not persisting on 4 corner gradient effect
Fixed 1 frame timecode discrepancy on BWAV imports
Fixed incorrect image on MTS files transcoded to Matrox YUYV
Fixed timeline marker not moving during playback after adding an effect and changing a keyframe parameter
Fixed drag and drop behavior of FX when V tracks are disabled
Fixed reading of media locators on AAF import
Fixed media locations disappearing when switching between project spaces
Fixed playback of audio imported to the system drive in 11.0.3
Fixed displayof Matrix wipes on FX panel
Fixed display of ProRes sample on the import panel (previously black)
Fixed reading of Reel ID from file imports
Fixed black Renders/Recordings/Exports using 1080i Blackmagic uncompressed MOV setting
Fixed connection settings on the record panel using Blackmagic I/O
Fixed Matrox Mpeg422P@HL's bit rate setting on the export/render/record panels
Fixed a memory leak related to reading audio-file locators in AAF import
Fixed encoding/decoding URL strings in AAF locators with regard to real unicode characters
Fixed re-linking to sound files on AAF import (on a material drive) that do not have 1.WAV'extensions
Fixed AAF import of video file metadata (wrong aspect ratio etc)
Fixed failure to transcode 30fps .MP4 sample to MPEG422 AVI
Fixed potential issue with shared projects not updating correctly when importing files
Fixed audio links in .archive not being restored to the Sound folder when restoring the .archive
Fixed media appearing offline after using the move function of the media tool
Fixed link on Filecard to show all media being linked to
Fixed audio playback on AIFF sample
Prevent two instances of Lightworks being run at the same time
Fixed potential crash clicking the Location field in a bin after moving media using the Manage Media tool
Fixed typewriter titling effect progression with overlapping non-coincident effects
Fixed archiving progress bar from reporting invalid time (when including linked media)
Fixed potential crash due to empty buffers being sent for capture
Fixed timecode display on audio imports (AIFF/MP3)
Fixed display of The 'Elapsed and 'Total Duration' fields in the edit label tab of the BITC panel when set to feet and frames (including 16mm & 35mm 3-perf.)
Fixed playback of Avid DNxHD files produced by Atomos Samurai
Fixed scroll bar on Notes section of Filecards
Fixed mouse-drag selection when clicking below the last valid line on multi line text entries
Fixed cut/paste logic on multi line text entries (notes not being saved when closing the Filecard)
Fixed 3D DVE edge softness & shadow setting not working correctly
Fixed crash using tab function in record database
Fixed slight image shift when using certain effects (Wipe etc)
Fixed potential crash opening/closing the vectorscope tool during playback
Fixed RED R3D audio playback (for linked audio)
Fixed RED R3D playback when using Red Rocket cards
Fixed potential crash zooming out on the video routing panel
Fixed Switch command not working correctly when tiles are linked to viewers Fixed multi-line selection on text fields (fixes upwards selection)
Fixed reverse word selection in text fields
Fixed potential crash when pasting text in to text fields
Fixed potential issue where the Lightworks Archive would back up an edit rather than the selected whole project
Fixed incorrect ordering on racks
Fixed potential crash using the search and replace function on bins
Fixed tabbing between fields (on the search/replace panel)
Removed obsolete Matrox drivers (5.5/6/6.1/7)
Fixed tiles not repositioning automatically in bin after clip is deleted in tile view
Ensure that the whole of the viewer/tile is kept onscreen following a change in output video format
Fixed import of AVCHD material in the Free version (when using Create Link)
Fixed missing audio on MPEG4 exports
Fixed ProRes sample failing to import with video
Fixed ability to type the timecode into the labels panel
Fixed crash clicking Standby when setup to record Voice over on the record panel
Fixed AAF import from Avid showing black clips in the edit
Fixed project name not appearing when creating a new room to a project from the project browser screen
Fixed ability to remove an EQ effect from an audio clip by right clicking and selecting remove
Fixed alpha channel not being removed when applying a 3D DVE to a clip Fixed edit sync warnings not appearing when making a copy of an edit
Fixed ability to use non-writable drives if they have a Material/Sound folder on them
Fixed Atornos Samurai_Avid DNx HD .rnov audio playback being incorrect
Fixed ProRes sample not importing with Picture
Fixed potential crash importing file from Pentax k30
Fixed multiple bins being created when importing new media
Fixed import of AC3 audio on AVCHD files
Fixed import of 32-bit WAV sample (previously failed to import)
Fixed crash rendering/exporting Avid DNxHD MXF 1080p25
Fixed deselected tracks on popped out tiles
Fixed potential crash unjoining FX nodes in the video routing panel
Fixed FX getting lost when using the video routing panel
Fixed potential crash on exit after opening the Effects panel
Fixed Mark Out being ignored when doing four point editing
Fixed potential crash scrolling and resizing bins
Fixed Batch Import Tool transcode settings not persisting when tool is re-opened
Fixed Frame rate and Size options on the export panel from moving
Fixed recordings and imported files appearing offline when using shared projects
Fixed creation of Prints and Subclips
Fixed still images transcoded on import to DVCPro100 MOV displaying incorrectly
Fixed MPEG422 SD AV's displaying incorrectly
Fixed audio clicks on Voice Over recordings
Fixed potential crash entering a project containing Avid DNxHD media without the codec being installed
Fixed invalid characters appearing on the Filter Type options menu of the Audio EQ effect
Fixed newly imported files being created in a new Imports bin despite one already being open
Fixed being able to resize a timeline track using the left mouse button
Fixed audio not playing in 11.1 if imported into 11.0.3 to an NTFS 4096b/sec drive
Fixed potential crash rendering thumbnails in bins when using shared projects
Fixed potential crash right clicking a tool in the Toolbox
Fixed default position setting to remember viewer positions
Fixed clicking in resizeable area (but not dragging) of track selection boxes on edit timeline
Fixed incorrect aspect ratio appearing on Fullscreen and I/O output
Fixed resizeable 'Add tracks' panel
Fixed timecode entry on labels panel
Fixed make 'Bin of Material function from rack setting menu
Fixed Colour Correction values not being identified correctly when typing them in
Newly created projects now default to 1080p rather than PAL
Fixed incorrect audio on MPEG4 exports
Fixed deletion of transcoded material
Fixed analogue audio being recorded at the incorrect speed using Matrox I/O
Fixed trimming shorctut keys not unjoining FX tracks
Fixed sync groups losing sync under certain circumstances
Fixed being able to record PAL from 1080i SDI input signal
Fixed colourspace conversion which would show purple tiles/viewers randomly
Fixed H.264 MOV files appearing considerably darker when compared with Quicktime
Fixed lengthy delay waiting for pixels shaders to load when entering projects
Fixed potential crash entering projects
Fixed crash loading column layouts on bins
Fixed Find material function failing when selecting permanent bins Fixed sync on 23.98 pulled down WAV exports
Fixed audio on MP3 samples being garbled in the 64bit version
Fixed archiving from an export tool that was restored from a room file
Fixed restoring archives with linked media paths failing to reconnect audio streams
Fixed memory issue on 32bit version
Fixed automatically acquiring an AVID DNxHD network license
Fixed FX nodes disappearing on the video routing panel
Fixed media relinking not available/possible after unarchiving? Fixed Lightworks archive import to unarchive all the files correctly? Fixed MP3 files failing to import
Fixed 720p 30fps MJPEG sample not importing into a 30fps project in the 32bit version
Sources-list.txt now created in Lightvvorks project folder to avoid Windows permissions issues
Fixed crash using arrow keys for navigation in timecode labels
Fixed display of Fraps files in the 32bit version
Fixed FX nodes disappearing on the video routing panel
Fixed 24fps Quicktime samples being identified as 23.98fps on the import panel
Fixed Copy local import option not working correctly (creating large audio files)
Fixed deletion of material that has been restored from an archive when deleting a project
Fixed potential memory crash in the 32bit version
Fixed relinked media not reappearing until after restarting the application
Fixed video only being relinked by 'relink missing media function
Ensure that material/sound folders are created when restoring a project from an archive
Fixed Timeline marker moving position after using ALT M
Fixed audio not being present on MP4 samples in 32bit version
Stop media file import browser from analyzing Lightworks link files
Fixed audio cutting out after 14 minutes on exports
Fixed DVCPROHD .MOV files created on Mac not working Fixed potential timeline sizing/moving crash
Fixed entire clips appearing offline in shared projects when only part of the file (audio or stereoscopic eye) was offline
Fixed audio mixer track selection
Fixed AAF settings for Protools target
Fixed AVC-Intra50 files importing as green image
Fixed DVD/Bluray export aspect ratio setting


Fixes and Features in 11.0.3

Fixed imports failing from SAN disks that appear as local disks
Fixed crash rendering an SD Boris effect as HD
Fixed import of PCM audio on 60fps MTS samples
Fixed crash playing back an HD YUYV AVI rendered/exported by Lightworks
Fixed poor playback of AVCIntra files
Fixed performance issue on playback using shared projects (introduced in 11.0.2)
Fixed system memory not being read correctly on some systems (primarily bootcamped Macs)
Add ability to automatically restart the Sentinel License Manager Service when starting Lightworks, if the service is stopped
Fixed undo function not working correctly
Fixed dissolves showing unusual black rectangle on viewer
Fixed display of frame rate and format of XDCAM EX material on import panel
Improve memory handling for .MTS and .M2TS files to prevent crashing with large numbers of files open
Fixed reading of malformed Blackmagic DNxHD MXF file
Fixed potential crash reading .MXF audio on import


Fixes and Features in Version 11.0.2

The following fixes and features have been implemented in this version:
• Fixed display of RGB Uncompressed AVI files.
• Fixed crash importing files from a network drive that appears as a local drive.
• Fixed large AVI files not importing with the correct length.
• Fixed large AVI repeating image two thirds of the way through.
• Fixed display of RED R3D 4.5k full native frame files.
• Fixed potential crash importing H.264 MOV sample using drag and drop.
• Fixed crash transcoding PNG image sequence on import.
• Fixed audio on Avid DNxHD MOV sample.
• Fixed SD/HD MOV exports not playing in Quicktime Player.
• Added ability to right click a text field and copy/paste/cut text.
• Fixed loading Matrox DSX Utils 8.0.0.148.
• Fixed embedded OMF export.
• Fixed AAF import of top-level sequences. They now show as edits rather than shots.
• Fixed export of consolidated audio on OMF/AAF.
• Improvements for memory issues importing large numbers of files.
• Fixed AVI files exported from Adobe After Effects going black halfway through.
• Fixed crash with AVI files exported from Adobe After Effects.
• Fixed AVCIntra files not displaying correctly.
• Fixed decoding of Canon XF Media.
• Added Multi-channel embedded audio export.
• Fixed transcode PNG to YUYV AVI.
• Fixed audio import for H.264 Quicktime.
• Fixed "Performing an empty cut on a clip with effects results in the keyframes of the clip before the empty cut changing to smooth if set to linear”.
• Fixed not being able to tab to the last keyframe on an effect.
• Fixed "Black frame flashes on exported files when memory usage is high."
• Renamed GPU tests to system tests and add memory report (can be used to check memory available to Lightworks is as expected).
• Base memory usage limit on physical memory available (fix crashes opening large numbers of MTS files?).
• Fixed audio mixer configuration changes not being saved when loading a new configuration from file.
• Fixed for import of top-level AAF sequences (they were showing up as original shots).
• Added informative message if incorrect Matrox hardware utils found.
• Fixed error registering DirectShow filter on installation.
• Fixed progress reporting on import.
• Disabled ability to get thumbnails for link files when browsing material folders. This causes problems with FsysResolveLink with files residing on a drive used as a material drive, which is a more common case.
• Fixed crash with unrenderable audio.
• Fixed reading of VFW codecs (huffyuv, lagarith, UT etc).
• Fixed display of Uncompressed AVI sample from Aurora 3D.
• Fixed potential random crash.
• Updated to latest Sentinel RTE (6.25).
• Fixed reading of timecode from BWAV sample.
• Fixed export failing on last frame of export.
• Fixed Cue Panel and Project shortcuts within the Lightworks.prefs file. You will need to import the Lightworks.prefs file again to see the change.
• Fixed Undo not working when dragging and dropping multiple tiles from a bin to the timeline.
• Further improvements to memory handling.


11.0.0

New in this Version
The following features are new in this version:
•You can now view your system status, and upgrade from the Free version of Lightworks to Lightworks Pro using a code that activates your license. See "Upgrading to Lightworks Pro" on page 2.
•Lightworks now includes an automatic backup facility for edits, as well as the ability to restore backups. See "Automatic Backups" on page 5 and "Restoring from a Backup" on page 6.

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•You can now drag in black at the start or end of a clip as a Replace or as an Insert. See "Dragging in Black" on page 7.
•You can now share projects and Media Spaces. See "Sharing Projects" on page 7.
•A number of changes have been made to Import and Export. See "Import and Export Changes" on page 14.
•Lightworks now ships physical keyboards customized for several languages. See "Customized Keyboards" on page 19.
•Bins have new functionality. See "New Bin Features" on page 19.
•You can now add titles using a native Lightworks title effect. See "Titles" on page 21.
•Drag-and-drop has new functionality. See "Drag-and-Drop" on page 23.
•The way you trim using the numeric keypad has changed. See "Trimming with the Numeric Keypad" on page 23.
•You can now click on any edge of a viewer and drag it to resize. The size of the viewer appears in the upper left corner while you drag it.
•You can now define a Mark Clip keyboard shortcut that adds marks at the head and tail of the current segment.
•If you imported media using the Create Link option, you can now relink missing media using the Relink option in the bin menu or the clip menu.
•All subsystems have been redesigned to facilitate cross-platform functionality.
•Still image import has been improved. Media that is one frame in duration is now automatically extended to 60 seconds, enabling shots with speeds other than 100%.
•The following Matrox function isnow supported: Retail drivers and DSX OEM drivers (v5.5.0.40 and v8.0.0.108)


New Lightworks Beta Release: 10.0.4.2

The updated Beta version 10.0.4.2 is now available from the Downloads page. This version has an extended license and includes several small fixes and updates which can be seen below:

Modify AVI+WAV export option to include audio mixer settings (same as WAV export)
Fix import of certain DNxHD MXF files that were not recognised correctly
Fix import of DNxHD MXF files that had been split up
Fix AES recording (any card with single AES channel)
Fix hang exiting standby on the record panel when no valid input is present
Fix exporting never completing with invalid events on the audio tracks
Restore audio monitor delay setting on project card
Change Record panel behaviour. Users must now enable Standby mode in order to start a record, this resolves an issue of V/O recordings not appearing in the timeline
Fix crash displaying DNxHD MOV material
Fix crash playing back DNxHD MOV material with DVEs added
Fix Voiceover recording to continue to the end of the edit when latency has been set
Add support for the latest RED SDK
Fix 1080p DNxHD MOV files appearing as 1080i on the import panel
Fix handling of audio on DNxHD MOV sample
Fix crash importing split MXF DNxHD files
Fix AVI+WAV export to generate an AVI without embedded audio
Fix DNxHD MOV samples that imported with incorrect audio


29/11/11 - Version 10.0.4.1 (beta)

Fixes and Features:
Fix Bin archiving to support odd characters.
Fix crash resizing viewers during playback
Fix crash moving viewers during playback
Fix crash and screen corruption after applying BITC
Fix WAV export on edits with more than 31 audio tracks
Updated to RED SDK 4.0 (requirements for 4.0 RED SDK: Rocket Driver 1.4.7.0 and Firmware 1.1.14.38 or later) No longer require two installers of Lightworks to work with and without a RED Rocket card. (Full version only)
Fix importing 24p Quicktimes from FCP
Fix import of audio on certain Quicktime files (was previously white noise)
Fix reading of timecode on consolidated AVID audio files
First attempt at fixing timecode from Quicktimes on systems with DSX Utils installed (Full version only)
Fix transcode of Quicktimes on import to DVCPro50
Fix naming on Archive exports
Fix reading of timecode from 24p MOVs on systems with DSX Utils installed (Full version only)
Fix audio on Quicktime/AVI exports with DSX Utils installed (Full version only)
Fix crash moving a sound only edit viewer during playback
Fix crash running out of GDI handles (random crashing)
Added ability to export AAF with audio handles (Full version only)
Added automatic Trace function when exporting AAF (Full version only)
Added check on AAF generation to check all channel events (Full version only)
Added pre-processor check to scan all segment IN/OUT points, allowing for transitions, and report the position of any segments that are beyond the bounds of the source-clip. The AAF export will abort if any are found. (Full version only)
Added ability to copy audio nodes from one section to another (Hold down ALT left click and drag the clip to a new section and release the left mouse button)
Fix shot timecodes on exported AAFs (Full version only)
Fix focus issues after dragging tiles out of bins
Fix DNXHD decoding (Full version only)
Change Use undo edits function to use the next available undo
AAF export now continues with a warning message if a source clip is missing, rather than terminating. (Full version only)
Fix save/restore of AAF-export options panel settings (Full version only)
Fix P2 imports on systems with DSX Utils to sync with audio and show correct timecodes (Full version only)
Fix playback problems with natively imported HD P2 material
Restore Uncompressed option back to Record/Render/Export compression panels
Add support for Matrox DSX Utils Release Candidate 8.0 (Full version only)
Add support for Matrox DSX Utils 5.5.0.7 (Retail drivers) (Full version only)
Fix Tiles not appearing in Bin set to Tiles view when recording from a database
Fix crash closing a rack after recording from a database
Fix potential crash when clicking undo
Fix issue with undo files not working correctly
Removed the 32,000 record limitation of projects (projects over this size produced updating problems)
Fix creation of .ed5 files beginning with "P" in the project folder
Fix performance problems adding and playing back effects
Fix poor image playback when set to Frames in certain projects
Restore option back to export panel to allow for AVI creation with separate audio files (AVI+WAV)
Fix keyboard shortcuts not appearing correctly
Fix crash exporting MOVs and MXFs from systems without hardware I/O installed
Fix AVI+WAV export from generating an unknown file
Change ‘target’ options on AAF-export to separate Avid and Protools. The ‘default’ option is now explicitly called ‘Lightworks’. (Full version only)
Fix AAF export with track-levels and clip-gain to import to Avid. (Full version only)
Fix AAF import to import all audio-levels data from any format of AAF – Avid, Protools or Lightworks format. (Full version only)
Fix AAF export concerning the specification of ‘edit-rate’ as applied to the exported SOURCE-clips and their timecodes. (Full version only)
Change AAF export to default to WAV if exporting to Avid or Protools (Full version only)
Fix AAF export issues concerning the start/end nodes of segments of the edit (Full version only)
Fix audio speed on OMF imports
Fix audio speed on AAF imports (Full version only)
Fix various updating issues with edits causing timeouts and delays
Reduce the number of calls to fileExists which would occur for missing ed5s
Fix delay opening consolidate panel in large shared projects
Fix crash exporting to PTV (Full version only)
Fix crash on notification of network delete of a missing edit
Added support for the recent full releases of Matrox retail drivers and DSX OEM drivers (5.5.0.40 and 8.0.0.108) (Full version only)
Fix newly created edits not appearing in bins in shared projects
Fix labels panel to be editable after dropping a tile into a source viewer with the labels panel open
Fix potential crash displaying imported shot in a new bin
Fix potential crash creating and modifying new projects in shared projects on Windows 7 systems
Fix project name getting lost
Fix reading of timecode on Quicktime imports
Fix OMF import to playback audio at the correct speed
Fix inability to add crossfades and dissolves
Add support for 5.1.2.0 of Geevs on PTV export (previous versions of Geevs will no longer work) (Full version only)
Fix decoding of certain DNxHD MXF files (Full version only)
Fix E-E recording on interlace formats
Fix crash entering a room where an edit referenced by a viewer has been deleted
Fix crash opening Effects panel with thumbnails enabled
Fix OMF export to give correct audio speed when selecting "keep original" as sample rate
Fix crash searching for newly imported shots in shared projects
Fix "What source-reelID for audio-only EDL" option on EDL export to respect user changes
Fix crash changing bin view after deleting a shot
Fix analogue audio recording using DSXLE2 card (Full version only)
Fix import of ProRes files from KiPro (Full version only)
Fix audio import of Quicktime wrapped DNxHD. (Full version only)
Fix V/O recordings which now copes with source regions which are longer than the source (at the head AND tail)
Fix possible memory leak if you keep the effects panel open with thumbnail display on all the time. (Performance improvement)
Prevent trimming crash
Disable MSinfo check (annoying CPU usage on Windows 7) (Full version only)
Fix media relinking in network projects
Modify AVI+WAV export option to include audio mixer settings (same as WAV export)
Fix import of certain DNxHD MXF files that were not recognised correctly (Full version only)
Fix audio levels being lost when moving an audio clip to another area of the edit


Features and Fixes in Beta 10.0.4

* Fix crash when resizing video-routing panel
* Fix Exported DVCPro100 Quicktime playing correctly in FCP (Hardware I/O only)
* Fix crash trimming a single clip in a timeline
* Fix tools not returning correctly if toolbox is unpinned
* Fix audio only EDL Export
* Fix crash during OMF export with invalid shot
* Fix audio not being heard on audio tracks 17 and above (Hardware I/O only)
* Modify Mackie protocol to support edits with more than 16 audio tracks
* Fix SDI output not appearing when first entering a project (Hardware I/O only)
* Audio nodes can now be added by right clicking on the yellow line
* Fix output setting being reset when returning to the Project Browser
* Fix crash in notes section of Bin in Both view
* Fix WAV export failure
* Fix OMF WAV generation failure
* Fix sync errors incorrectly appearing when no V track is present
* Fix flashing black frames during DNXHD playback
* Fix tile distortion when dropping a tile into a gallery
* Fix colour not being displayed on colour correction wheels
* Fix odd behaviour clicking the Matrox screwdriver icon
* Fix 'make bin of clip-references' function
* Fix keyboard shortcuts getting lost randomly
* Fix OMF export panel distortion
* Restore audio level check box on OMF export panel
* Fix project browser when clicking in name section then changing to restore not letting you create a new project
* Added support for IMX decode (full version only)
* Fix EDL track mapping to support more than 4 audio tracks
* Fix two lists being created when searching for bins
* Add ability to turn off drag and drop behaviour (add config entry: stripv_accept_tiles 0 to the config.dat file)
* Fix automatic positioning option on bins
* Fix Solo button on audio mixer panel when audio is panned left/right
* Fix audio fade out line remaining on timeline when audio is removed
* Fix viewers distorting when changing size during playback
* Fix pinned viewers appearing on top when right-left clicking
* Fix EDL creation to correctly handle illegal characters in the filename
* Fix panel still on old colour scheme (add audio tracks in between)
* Fix 'right + left clicking' bringing bins to the top on the first click
* Fix horizontal scrolling on bins in List view
* Fix rendering of first effect in timeline removing additional effects
* Fix audio WAV export issue repeating the last section at the end of edit
* Fix crash when inserting from a sync-group using "Live cut source" shortcut
* Fix panels disappearing if toolbox is unpinned
* Fix tools staying in position when toolbox is unpinned
* Added keyboard shortcut for Next room and Previous room
* Fix crash clicking cutlist tool after sharking searchcard
* Fix black at end of edit being removed after clicking sync button
* Change user-generated black to a subclip
* Added keyboard shortcuts for next and previous audio node
* Stop network project notifications from being sent or received when not using shared projects
* Fix project output setting being saved per room (Shared projects only)
* Fix recording from MXO2
* Added ability to open file location from the Filecard
* Fix setting of aspect ratio when writing 16:9 using Gee file writer (MXF/MOV)
* Fix hang exporting OMF
* Fix audio playback stopping after a short time
* Fix consolidation to recognise all audio tracks correctly
* Tighten check for valid sequence numbers on OMF Export so we don't create unreadable OMFs
* Fix setting of filename when create new sound files on OMF import
* Fix infinite loop in OMF toolkit with invalid film frame sequence numbers
* Fix crash previewing audio only file on import panel
* Fix crash reading AVI audio using Gee file reader
* Fix reading of bits per component from Matrox YUV uncompressed files.
* Fix crash on exit
* Fix memory leaks and crashes on exit, generally when file requests fail for some reason.
* Fix shot length calculation (1 frame out)
* Improve audio file I/O efficiency
* Fix hang on shutdown of DirectShow audio interrupt when changing project standards
* Fix rounding of sample rate on OMF import
* Fix hang leaving room
* Keep logger window open for OMF imports (as well as AAF)
* Fix timecode from imported OMF not being displayed in 23.98 project
* Fix shot length calculation (1 frame out) on OMF import
* Fix problems with OMFs sometimes having no shot timecode, no reel etc.
* Fix crash during consolidate
* Fix video consolidation, log errors to error.log as well as console window
* Fix consolidate when there is insufficient audio or video samples in the original material, consolidate will continue without errors and the new material will resemble the original material in being longer than the actual material
* Fix crash on exit due to image cache not being empty.
* Add option to disable loading of Matrox codes for Vfw and DirectShow
* Fix crash importing Quicktime sample from forum (southpawami), Expand frame rates accepted as 30fps up to 31fps.
* Fix reading of MJPG_B movs, add reading of field presentation order, fix memory leak.
* Fix Consolidate not working correctly on BWAVs
* Fix several issues causing slow rendering.
* Fix crash previewing YUV images that need flipping on import
* Log Vfw codecs present to error.log
* Fix interleaving when creating new frames from 2 different input frames (pulldown) when the source image scan mode is not as expected (e.g. PAL material in an NTSC project).
* Added the ability to make multiple subclips at once from a clip with two or more cues
* Allow non-integral varispeeds
* Redraw existing tiles correctly following a change to project letterboxing
* Clicking the project location (on the project card) now causes the project folder to be revealed in Windows Explorer
* Fix crash applying effects via the routing panel (to non-visible parts of the graph)
* Fix crash starting playback (if you'd previously left a project having been in twin-play mode)
* Console trimming keys and keyboard trimming keys now do the same thing
* Added media relinking facility (bin->cogs-> Relink Missing Media)
* Fix crash after turning a clip into an edit (which is linked to a tile in a gallery)
* Fix crash trimming edit that has no video tracks
* Fix clipboard update bug
* Fix crash clicking on bin Notes fields
* Prevent graphical corruption on the consolidate panel
* Persist the advanced EDL export options (and restore for subsequent usages)
* Right mouse button now only moves the zoom window if zoomed in AND the mouse is over the white area
* Keep menus topmost
* Fix bin scrolling after drag/drop receipt of timeline section
* Claim focus when clicking 'all' button on timeline
* Fix insertion of single-frame clips when empty
* Rewrote the window manager
* Fix crash dragging and dropping a tile into a bin with no free space
* Added Vs_redist to the Full installer
* Fix error during install with vs-redist on Windows 7
* Fix Playout tool not resizing correctly when playout starts
* Fix EDL export ignoring audio tracks set to None
* Fix defaults button on logging databases
* Fix images not updating when trimming
* Fix Crash adding FX from simple effects panel when no V track selected
* Fix audio being moved correctly using disk manager tool
* Fix import panel disappearing if toolbox is unpinned
* Fix search and replace working on selections in Bins and logging databases
* Fix crash playing back 16bit DPX files
* Added support for up to 32 audio tracks
* Fix audio playback on NTSC AVI exports
* Fix v track being lost when unwiring FX
* Fix export panel remembering last image sequence setting
* Fix audio not getting moved when using disk manager tool
* Fix tile distortion when moving a tile that is partially covered in a bin
* Fix crash scrolling through bin in Both view
* Added ability to make subclips based on cue points
* Fix crash entering project if Fullscreen feature was enabled
* Fix decimal values being recognised on varispeed
* Fix certain keyboard shorctuts still appearing when they have been removed
* Fix search and replace can now replace text with empty field
* Fix yellow audio line being left behind when moving audio
* Fix crash importing AVI that has audio streams before the video streams
* Fix crash adding wipe effect in video routing panel
* Fix image sequence export creating a black frame at the end
* Fix tiles reparenting to what they were dropped on
* Fix crash after adding user defined effect
* Add support for Type 1 AVI files
* Fix MJPEG imports showing correct
* Fix crash exporting an EDL when there are less audio tracks in the edit than go in the EDL
* Fix crash scrolling bin contents (in list/both view)
* Reinstated memory reclaiming, now automatically frees the contents of the stills and edit caches
* Fix right eye EDL to show the correct track number
* Fix audio pop that can occur at cutpoints
* Fix varispeed disappearing when resizing V track on a pinned timeline
* Fix destination drive appearing correctly in the list on render/export panels
* Fix stripview jumping to a different position after clicking Join
* Fix audio levels changing when adjacent to black in the timeline
* Fix audio levels changing when black section is extended
* Fix AAF imports having incorrect audio levels
* Fix audio levelling to respect cut points
* Fix viewer focus when dragging and dropping a tile into a viewer
* Fix crash due to notes field hitting the character limit during consolidation
* Fix toolbox behaviour to not open when moving the mouse above or below toolbox area
* Fix toobox unpinned behaviour to close immediately when moving mouse away
* Change Solo button on mixer panel to unmute track if it is muted when clicking the Solo button
* Fix drag and dropping selected tracks from an edit to a bin
* Add memory check on startup
* Disabled AAF export in free Beta
* Fix LR and Mix 1-3 muting on the audio mixer panel
* Fix audio level line to move with the mouse wheel
* Fix varispeed to show as inactive when parked at the end of the edit
* Restore concurrent viewers setting to sync groups
* Fix sync-group 'when timecode, sync by' menu item
* Fix crash adding FX plugins
* Added ability to export audio track levels with AAF export (Full version only)
* Added ability to export audio clip gain with AAF export (Full version only)
* Added ability to export audio handles with AAF export (still under development)
* Added stereoscopic FX toolset (Full version only)
* Fix Bin archiving to support odd characters.
* Fix crash resizing viewers during playback
* Fix crash moving viewers during playback
* Fix crash and screen corruption after applying BITC


26/01/11 - Version 10.0.3 (beta)

Fixes and Features:

* Make sure that the export formats button appears correctly
* Fix crash importing MXF exported from Lightworks
* Tools are now always top most
* Fix clips opening from bins when tiles are linked to viewers
* Fix video disappearing when clicking inline effect
* Fix audio track jumping to next cut point when zoomed
* Fix export panel distortion when chord clicking export tool onto edit/clip
* Fix crash opening export panel if an invalid compression was selected
* Fix timecode label showing no timecode
* Added 720p 25fps setting to project card and export panel
* Fix rendering 720p material
* Fix folders Created on the export panel not appearing after creation
* Make sure that the export formats button appears correctly
* Fix crash when the number of effects in a particular segment exceeds the vertical height of the strip
* Drag/drop of effects on FX tracks now behaves the same way as for regular clips
* Choose a sensible default codec for Quicktime exports
* Keep the timeline context-menu visible after changing the transition length
* Fix crash importing an AAF with sound tracks but no media
* Added explicit keybindable commands for live cutting
* Hide TimeBlur.aex from the plug-ins list (since it crashes)
* Always highlight the last used effect when showing the effects list
* Preserve marked regions (defined by explicit in/outs) when clicking on one of the marks in the white position strip
* Fix compact sync-group size on room re-entry
* Racks contents are no longer reordered incorrectly when clicking on one of the contained items
* Make the preferences panel topmost (and completely within the bounds of the screen) when clicking the thumbprint icon (and the preferences panel is already on screen)
* Fix timeouts and black frames with RED material
* Fix / tidy audio metadata setting (incorrect stride specified, add debug checks to reveal errors)
* Fix hangs (crashes) when trying to transcode to an unsupported image size on import
* Fix image sequence exports not working at all and not giving any error message when the filename contains invalid characters (e.g. from those in the edit name)
* Remove DNxHD, LW RLE, MJPG from export/render formats
* Fix audio import from RED
* Fix colour shift with RED material
* Add both keycode and primary timecodes from RED files
* Fix 1/8 res 4K playback stuttering
* Fix export from 16bit DPX to MOV dropping frames
* Keep the toolbox topmost
* Prevent the effect panel title from obscuring the cogs/close icons (when the edit name is long)
* Clicking on a table-view bin item makes it editable immediately
* Delete temporary edits created during AAF export
* Restore 'align kemrolls'
* Correctly restore source/record/focus when re-entering a room
* Minimising a record viewer now transfers play focus correctly if there is a pre-existing source viewer
* Fix crash undoing deletion of an assistant app
* Remember/restore the last timecode type chosen via the labels panel (for edits)
* Fix crash displaying the clipboard stripview (if no video tracks)
* Respect V track selections when dragging/dropping FX segments
* Prevent the record-tool cogs menu from appearing when in standby
* Add flag icons to tiles in bin 'both' view
* Pass keyboard focus to viewer when maximising a tile
* Remember the last-used timecode type for edits (when changing via the mouse-wheel)
* Show 'Media Offline' for offline clips within edits
* Update the clipboard timeline/viewer correctly following timeline drag/drop
* Don't display the clipboard following editing operations that did not actually use it (eg. insert)
* Claim console/keyboard focus when clicking timeline track buttons
* Fix NTSC Quicktime export
* Fix memory heap corruption after import
* Redisplay bin thumbnails correctly after changing output format
* Importing now pays attention to which items are tagged
* Prevent possible hang scrolling through a gallery of subclips / syncs
* Fix effect folding bug
* Prevent crash displaying two (or more) edits with BITC enabled
* Removed Geevs export format
* MXF export now give user an explicit Op1a (XDCAM) / OpAtom (P2) choice
* Added cogs menu (right-click) to the import icon so you can change 'sync using filenames' etc before starting an import
* Don't make a bin AND show the permanent list when chord-clicking the bin tool
* Added MiniDV to the device list
* The size of an export is now calculated asynchronously so you don't have to wait on room entry, etc
* Implicitly export two EDLs at a time for stereoscopic edits for Left and Right eyes
* Fix possible crash entering a room after having previously left another room
* Ensure that edit order always matches visible tile order when creating an edit from a bin
* Use the correct colour for inactive FX panels
* Don't apply EQ if the effect has been bypassed
* Ensure that effect LEDs are in the correct state when the panel first appears, especially when effect components are disabled
* Fix drag and drop of tiles to stripview when tile has fewer audio tracks than are selected on the destination edit
* Shift+backspace is now no different to backspace
* It is now not necessary to have 'sync using filenames' enabled to auto-detect P2 structures
* Rewording – the stripview is now called ‘timeline’
* Fix crash entering invalid keystrokes into logging-database timecode field
* Preserve audio levels when trimming grouped audio tracks that have concurrent black/non-black segments
* Adding video effects is improved
* Added 10-bit YUV DPX support for licensed systems
* The edit viewer / timeline no longer obscures the export progress details after an export
* Disallow DPX saving for unlicensed systems
* Don't list TGA twice on the render panel
* Preserve the auto-positioning information when duplicating bins
* Stereo-3d export options are disabled on unlicensed systems
* Fix reading of AVI files with audio - probably the cause of a lot of failures to read AVI reported by forum users
* Clean up any dangling BITC definitions in the project edit caused by unpacking user definitions, which was causing the project edit to grow in size and take longer and longer to read
* Stop project edit always being saved twice (and notifying the shared project twice for every modification
* Lightworks no longer crashes when you import MXF files that are of a length the application does not expect.
* D3D surface caching is now deselected by default.
* Apple H264 is now described correctly.
* If your AAF import fails, you now see a more helpful error message.
* When you import, more types of transcode options are now available.
* Uninitialized data might have interfered with importing. This has been fixed.
* Transcoding on import now works when the input image has an Apple codec identifier (fourcc) and appears to have a different compression format but is the same as one of the Windows formats.
* A bad memory leak that occurred when you changed projects has been fixed.
* Lightworks no longer crashes when you try to play audio when the audio is missing, for example, when material is offline.
* Memory usage is now reduced during surface pooling.
* The name you type for an Assistant Application is no longer ignored.
* When you delete an Assistant Application, associated effect templates are now also deleted.
* Irrelevant effects options are no longer available.
* If a memory allocation fails, cached images and logs are now automatically freed, and then the application tries again.
* You can now move on-viewer effects controls (for example, DVE position) with either mouse button.
* You can now adjust numeric effects parameters with the mouse wheel.
* You can now adjust Timeline zoom with the mouse wheel when you position it over the white length-indicator strip.
* You can now create effect templates from .FX files (for example, HLSL pixel shader files) on the fly.
* You can now have more than 10,000 events in an edit track.
* Handling is improved for After-Effects plug-ins that use custom parameter types (for example, Red Giant ‘Looks’).
* Lightworks no longer crashes when you preview After-Effects plug-ins.
* Lightworks no longer crashes when you display the BITC Overlay dialog box while letterboxing is enabled.
* You can now successfully import audio-only MXF files.
* You can now successfully import Aaton 23.98 WAV files.
* QuickTime export formats are now restricted (to avoid problems with using the QuickTime SDK for simultaneous decompression and recompression).
* Unjoined cuts are now rejoined after an undo or redo. You can unjoin them again by clicking the Unjoin button.
* Empty shots or edits no longer display the Material Offline message.
* The application might have crashed when you unarchived the same archive more than once without having closed the bin from the first import. This has been fixed.
* When you import, an image sequence is now automatically detected only if you select the first image from the file browser.
* Image sequences without zero-padded numerics (for example, file1.jpg, file2.jpg as opposed to file0001.jp, file0002.jpg, and so on) are now imported successfully.
* You can now drag and drop tiles onto the Generate Film Lists tool.
* When you use Avid key assignments, pressing the J or L key repeatedly now increases play speed up to 4x.
* EDL imports that generate warnings now continue to import successfully.
* You can now specify on which drives you want your Material/Sound folders created.
* Lightworks no longer crashes when you try to import an EDL without having exported one first.
* After you double-click bin items, the correct number of track buttons now display on the source viewer.
* Lightworks might have crashed when it tried to display tool tips over non-opaque windows that did not have explicit alpha channels. This has been fixed.
* You can now drag tiles out of bins in either the List view or the Both view.
* You can now drag tiles onto a Timeline. Clicking a tile and dragging it into the Timeline performs an Insert edit. Shift-dragging performs a Replace edit.
* When you change the output aspect ratio, the full-screen display now appears correctly.
* Detection of secondary displays for full-screen preview is improved.
* When the primary display is on the right monitor, the mouse now behaves correctly on the secondary monitor.
* Permanent racks now behave like permanent bins, that is, you have to explicitly remove items from them.
* When you create a Cues dialog box, it now always appears on the screen.
* A Cues dialog box is now saved in a room and can be restored from a room.
* You can now bypass or enable an individual effect parameter by clicking the red button next to its name.
* When the Windows taskbar is positioned on the right edge of the Lightworks screen, the size of the main window is improved.
* The Only Show Metadata option has been removed from the Import/Export Commands list.