回顾:EditShare Lightworks

在这篇对EditShare的Lightworks的评论中, I’ll continue my series on alternative NLEs from the perspective of a Premiere Pro editor. Lightworks has been around since the 1990s. and it was originally developed to help Steenbeck film editors be comfortable with the nonlinear, 数字编辑流程. One of the standout features for this software is actually hardware.

控制面板

First, let’s take a look at the unique hardware that you can use with Lightworks. Lightworks控制面板(下面的图1) is designed specifically for use with this NLE, so if you’re familiar with something like a ShuttlePRO--or for really old-school editors, the Steenbeck--then this interface will look pretty familiar to you. 你有穿梭和慢跑控制. 你有预定义的按钮, as well as user-definable buttons for which you can customize exactly what function they perform. Finally, you have large buttons for forward play, reverse play, stop and record.

图1. 光之工厂的控制面板

There are a lot of things to like about having a dedicated hardware interface for editing. If, 像我这样的, you’re accustomed to using a trackpad or mouse plus your keyboard to edit, it takes a learning curve to get familiar with an interface like this and get used to using your hands in a different way. 也就是说, the time I invested in using this for a few weeks really paid off in getting me a lot more speed with my edits. In the walkthrough video that accompanies this review, you’ll see how I use it during the edit.

主人设置

The opening screen for Lightworks is a Project Browser with a series of project choices. 图2(下面) shows just the one test project that I’ve worked on.

图2. Here you choose a project and adjust master program settings. 

This is where you’ll find your master program settings (shown on the right in 图2). You can’t access these except for on this main screen, so if you want to change something that affects the entire interface, 整个程序, 这就是你要做的. It’s very easy to get to because when you launch a project, you’ll see a button in the upper-left corner that takes you right back to the Project Browser. (下面的图3  Another thing interesting about Lightworks is there’s no Save or Save as function. The program always saves the most current version of what you’re working on, so you don’t ever have to worry about losing your progress.

图3. Click here to return to the Project Browser.

固定布局

The main things I want to emphasize in the preferences are the two layout options: Flexible and Fixed (下面的图4). The Flexible layout allows you to move windows around or panels around anywhere you’d like within the frame of Lightworks.

图4. 选择布局选项.

图5(下面) 以固定布局显示LOG视图. 如你所见, Lightworks has a predefined layout that fits your screen and you can’t move things around.

图5. Lightworks的固定布局

You have four main editing views, accessed at the top center of the layout shown in 图5. Going from left to right, first is LOG, for logging and ingest (图5). 接下来是EDIT ()图6)，感谢你的时间轴工作. Next is VFX, for color and other transitions (图7，在图6下面), and then finally, AUDIO for preparing your audio for export (图8，在图7下面).

图6. 编辑视图

图7. 视效视图

图8. 音频视图