NEWS
 RTV Ljubljana install new Tapeless Production System
December 2007
After a serious evaluation of the various options for their move to Tapeless production, RTV Ljubljana has chosen a new system based on Geevs Video Servers and Lightworks Editors to provide the fast efficient workflow they need. The mixture of SD and HD production, with fast turnaround, meant that quick editing of material in place on the central storage was an essential part of the solution. The system configuration was designed and delivered by Interlab, a Lightworks and Gee Broadcast partner for Central Europe...
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Premium TV installs new Tapeless Production System
from Lightworks and Gee Broadcast
September 2007
When Premium TV won the contract to provide in match ‘near live’ and delayed highlights of the The English Premier League football for the next three seasons for use by over 50 global Internet and mobile licensees, they chose a new tapeless production system based on Geevs Servers and Lightworks Softworks editors to provide the fast efficient workflow they needed.
'Near live’ fast turnaround requires quick editing and voice-over while recording for up to 10 matches simultaneously. Associated metadata accompanies each highlight clip and a number of differently encoded clips of the same event are created for broadcasting to a range of devices and applications.
The following workflow provides Premium TV with an extremely fast turnaround of highlight clips and packages
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Award-Winning TAKE THAT DVD production on Lightworks
August 2007
“Well Take That”, the programme of the first Concert by the re-formed Take That, was edited on
Lightworks Alacrity by Henry Stein of Stein Films. It has since been broadcast on ITV 2 as a 75
min version, and as a 48 min version on ITV 1. The two hour DVD was the best selling music
DVD when released and recently won the Cads award for the Best Live Music DVD.
The concert was shot over two nights with 20 HD cameras per night, with 33 iso-ed cameras used.
The recordings were all loaded into the Lightworks Alacrity and made into a sync group.
The advantage of the Lightworks has always been the ability to sync up both nights into the same
multi camera edit.
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Dassault expands Video Production Network with Alacrity
July 2007
The Production Team at Dassault Aviation have added a new Alacrity NLE to meet increased demand for their services. Their initial success has been built on a Touch-based SAN system.
The new Alacrity is easily added to the SAN network and integrates simply with the Graphics and Sounds Suites, based respectively on Adobe and Discreet, and Pyramix.
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New!! SD-only Video I/O now available for Softworks product!!
July 2007
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Thelma Schoonmaker wins Oscar editing on Lightworks
March 2007
Loyal Lightworks Film editor Thelma Schoonmaker won her third Academy Award on Feb. 25 in
Los Angeles for her work on the Boston crime drama "The Departed," which also won Best Picture,
Best Director for Martin Scorsese and Best Screenwriter for William Monahan, who adapted the
Hong Kong thriller "Infernal Affairs".
She has previously won Oscars for editing Martin Scorsese's "Raging Bull" (1980) and "The
Aviator" (2004).
Thelma has been editing on Lightworks since 1994, when Scorsese decided to switch to digital
editing for “Casino”. Lightworks editor Scott Brock assisted Thelma on "Casino" and has remained a critical
member of her team on subsequent films.
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Softworks is Perfect for Poppy
January 2007
Poppy Films has recently bought a copy of Softworks. Poppy Films chief editor, Peter Goddard has this to say about Softworks:
"Softworks is just brilliant...Bingo!...here it is, Lightworks on a laptop.... Freedom and portability.
With the new Softworks and a USB console, I’ve got a fully working Lightworks system that I can carry on my shoulder, and, everything works !"
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Softworks Version 1.1 released by Lightworks.
October 2006 Following its successful launch at IBC 2006 Lightworks has today announced the release of Softworks Version1.1. Softworks is the first editing solution from Lightworks to be sold as a software only package. The Softworks maintains the well-loved Lightworks smooth jogging and scrubbing, including the smooth “Analogue Audio” output both forwards and backwards.
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ERTU, the Egyptian state broadcaster places major order for Lightworks Alacrity and Geevs systems.
September 2006
After a rigorous competitive tender process the ERTU have awarded a contract to Gee Broadcast Systems Ltd. for 8 Alacrity Editors and 2 Geevs Servers.
The Geevs SD Servers will be connected to the Alacrity editing systems by a Sharknet network to provide easy sharing of material. The Geevs Servers provide Ingest and Playout facilities to compliment the editing suites.
More... Editor, Scott Hill, uses Lightworks’ New Alacrity MR to cut “Evan Almighty"
September 2006
Effects-Heavy Universal Pictures Production is the First to Use New Multicam-Capable Lightworks Solution
CHARLOTTESVILLE , USA : Scott Hill is editing Evan Almighty, the sequel to box office hit Bruce Almighty, on a new four-station Lightworks Alacrity MR system while the film is being shot on location in Virginia. Tom Shadyac is directing for Universal Pictures.
“Several Alacrity MR workstations can easily be attached to a SAN in a fiber-channel environment,” says Seth Hallen, Lightworks VP Operations North America. “And there just is no faster editing system out there.”
The movie stars Steve Carell, Morgan Freeman and John Goodman. It is scheduled for release in June, 2007.
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Lightworks VIT
September 2006
New for IBC 2006 is the Lightworks VIT - a multi-channel Ingest facility which provides efficient Ingest without tying-up valuable Edit Suites. Supporting SD and HD in a range of codecs, and up to 4 channels the operation is as fast and simple as the previous Lightworks VIP product, but tailored to today’s multi-format world.
More... Gee Broadcast & Lightworks
April 2005
Lightworks makes its debut at NAB 2005. Since being acquired by Gee Broadcast systems Ltd in 2004, the two companies have been developing integrated and truly tapeless, networked, production systems for TV and film.
More... Thelma Schoonmaker takes home editing Oscar "THE AVIATOR" cut on Lightworks
March 2005
HOLLYWOOD, CA - "The Aviator" claimed five wins at this year's Academy Awards including "Best Editing" and was cut by acclaimed film editor Thelma Schoonmaker on the Lightworks NLE system she's been using exclusively for the past ten years.
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