Lightworks

This is a short blog update.

I am currently processing a lot of video clips and want to retain its quality as much as possible. I wanted something that will let me do that without costing me a fortune. I found Lightworks and it's free (limited to 720P resolution video unless you get the paid version).

The video clips were captured on my PlayStation 4 but I noticed an interesting problem. Lightworks reads and lets me edit them fine but during export it would blank out the second half of the clip. PS4 encoding is likely causing some problems so to fix it I used the hugely popular Handbrake encoder(also free) to re-encode the clips at the highest quality possible without a placebo effect. Lightworks was able to export these files fine. However the higher quality mp4 encoding left a problem. MP4 is what is considered a "playback-friendly" format and not an "edit-friendly" format. In other words I needed AVI.
Once again Lightworks is great because it has a Transcode mode. I used it to transcode the mp4's into AVI which is an edit-friendly format.

Since I am busy with my video project, I will likely talk about my experience with Lightworks more later but that depends on how it goes though! I am impressed with it so far.

I have done video editing and sound editing as a hobby for a while now and have some great works (that I am not willing to publish, sorry!). I have learnt a great deal in these areas so I am certainly not an amateur. Some of my past video games have involved taking one type of sound and turning it into another type of sound. Of course sitting with a sound engineer for Mai FM a long time ago taught me heaps and that knowledge still sits with me today. So Lightworks really is, for me, all about features and how easily I can do stuff in it.

Ok so the update wasn't so short, but that's the beauty of enthusiasm!