Hello Everone I am trying to import the Lightworks / Shark Bytes Coffe Demo into Avid Media Composer but I have no Idea what I'm doing can someon help I have tried Google! This is a link to the project
http://www.lwks.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=108&Itemid=217
I cant find any thing else to practice on
Thanks Bruce
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That project is a Lightworks archive, which is not in any way compatible with Avid or any other NLE. You would have to install Lightworks and import the archive. If you don't have a media drive set up for Lightworks that would then unpack the media used into C:\Users\Public\Documents\Lightworks\Media\Material on a Windows system (can't recall the exact path for Mac or Linux). If you do it will unpack into D:\Material, where D: is your chosen media drive. You would then need to AMA link or import the unpacked media into Avid.
That's the point at which the Lightworks tutorial ceases to be of use in an Avid environment. The project itself can't be imported into Media Composer, and the workflow of the two systems can be quite dissimilar.
If all that you want is the media in the archive, you can download and install Lightworks free of charge. It will quite happily coexist with Media Composer. Neither interferes with the other. It's an advantage I made use of as recently as yesterday, when I used Lightworks to rip a client's DVD, select just the shots that he needed and export them as DV format .MOV files for use in an existing Avid project.
That was all done on the one W7/MC7 system, so in my experience the two do definitely play nice together.
Avid DNxHD licenses are available for Lightworks ($65.00). Do they allow projects to be moved between programs or only the data?
Not really. They still only allow you to transfer media. You could create an edit of your media, export an AAF file and import that into Avid but you don't need a DNxHD license to do that. Additionally, you will still only have your media, plus an added needless edit.
There is at the moment absolutely no way to transfer a Lightworks project in its entirety to any other NLE. For that matter you can say that about most other NLEs too. Even if you could, the Lightworks user interface is highly idiosyncratic. Most of the Lightworks tutorials have little or no relevance to other NLEs, Avid included, except at the most basic level.
You could use any media you can find in conjunction with user drbgaijin's basic MC tutorials, series 1 and series 2. They were designed from the point of view of a user migrating from the Pinnacle edit system to Media Composer, but they are clear enough to follow whether you have experience of another editor or not.
Thanks for your input everone I just started the project in lightworks then exported the clips as h264 to a folder then imported them avid using dnxhd. smooth editing. playback was smooth in VLC after exporting them to h264(well for h264 that is) I used handbreak to get the file size down I have squeeze now though.
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