Few days ago, Lightworks 2020.1 beta release announced and the start of testing of the new branch of the video editor Lightworks 2020.1. Lightworks belongs to the category of professional tools and is actively used in the film industry, competing with products such as Apple FinalCut, Avid Media Composer, and Pinnacle Studio.
Lightworks is a professional non-linear video editing system for editing and mastering movies in various formats, including 2K and 4K resolutions, as well as television productions in PAL, NTSC and high definition formats.
The video editor has a convenient interface and an unrivaled set of supported features, They include a large set of tools for synchronizing video and sound, the ability to overlay a variety of video effects in real time, as well as tools for simultaneous editing of data captured on multiple cameras using the GPU to speed up computing tasks.
What are the changes in Lightworks 2020.1?
With the release of this beta version, it is announced that it is integrated into Lightworks 2020.1 the support to decode files in HEVC / H.265 format, support for local generation of lvix files and support for transcoding with UHD quality.
Ability to capture segments on a timelineas well as improved integration with the Audio Network repository and added support for importing resources into a project and using them in sequence on a timeline.
Another change that stands out in the Lightworks 2020.1 beta is the sAdded support for Ubuntu 18.04 and higher, Linux Mint 17 and higher, and Fedora 30 and Fedora 31.
On the other hand, in the "Libraries" section the content manager has been added, which contains local files and import options from the Pond5 and Audio Network multimedia repositories.
It is also highlighted that added a new filter to import images and the ability to move images to the timeline in drag and drop.
Of the other changes that stand out:
- For the timeline, scroll bars of audio and video tracks are proposed
- Added ability to apply effects to highlighted segments on timeline
- HD overlay added to vectorscope
- Tabs, metadata, decoding, bookmarks and BITC have been added to the editor
- Added ability to resize project thumbnails by rotating mouse wheel while holding Ctrl key
- Added the ability to switch between a simple search and an advanced search in the search panel
- Added better categories for keyboard mapping list
- Added better keyboard shortcut handling to use standard keyboard shortcuts i.e pressing delete removes clips
- Added ability to select segments in time sequence
If you want to know the details about the release of this beta version, you can consult them in the following link
How to install Lightworks on Linux?
For those who are interested in installing Lightworks on their system, they can do so by following the instructions we share below.
As mentioned in the article, Lightworks is a professional tool and it is paid, but it also has a free version, in which it is limited to saving the results in web formats (eg MPEG4 / H.264) with a resolution of up to 720p and does not include some advanced features such as collaboration tools.
To download the current beta version, you must go to the official website and in its download section you can obtain the links to download the DEB or RPM packages.
Downloading these packages requires registration on the publisher's website.
Download the appropriate package for your Linux distribution, you can install with the help of your package manager preferred or from the terminal by executing any of the following commands (according to the package you downloaded).
DEB
sudo apt install Lightworks-2020.1-Beta-119451.deb
And in case of having problems with the dependencies, we can solve them with:
sudo apt -f install
RPM
sudo rpm install Lightworks-2020.1-Beta-119451.rpm