The Lightworks Console

 

 
About the Company

Lightworks is an editor's company. Our only concern is making the finest editing gear money can buy. We put the individual at the center of the editing process by providing the simplest, most intuitive and most transparent editing system ever created.

Our products are designed for those who are looking to stand apart from the crowd. While others talk about how cost, features and flexibility impact the production process, we talk about how transparency, ease-of-use and efficiency impact the creative process.

We are all about the editor and how to seamlessly transfer their creativity into the perfect cut.

 


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Lightworks Alacrity - Download brochure

The Lightworks Alacrity NLE is the world's fastest craft editing tool which incorporates the Lightworks jog/shuttle console with analogue audio scrubbing. The Alacrity offers realtime effects (no rendering) of mixed SD & HD material in multiple compression formats on a single timeline. The Alacrity also features a software switch for instant SD/HD up/down-scaling to the output and a 16-channel realtime audio fader control surface.

Recent Lightworks projects include a 4 x Alacrity network to edit the latest "Almighty" comedy film - "Evan Almighty" (the sequel to Bruce Almighty), and a multiple machine system for the national film association in Bangladesh. In the television arena a recent order from Egyptian national broadcaster ERTU is to be installed in March, comprising 8 Alacrity systems with 2 video servers and data-tape archive solution.

The Lightworks Alacrity is perfectly and powerfully integrated with the Geevs Video Server. In the broadcast environment the Geevs multi-camera ingest offers on-the-fly EDL creation for Lightworks editors for the fastest and most economical camera-to-edit solution - a true "VTR Killer". Mersey Television, the producers of Hollyoaks have recently added to their Geevs/Lightworks set-up. The system now comprises 6 Geevs Servers and 8 Lightworks editors in a Storage Area Network-based tapeless environment with file-based data tape archiving.

 

 

Lightworks Softworks - Download Brochure

Softworks is a software-only editing solution with all the productivity for which Lightworks has become renowned.
New!! SD-only I/O now available for the Softworks product!! See Brochure

Softworks offers full functionality for editing but without video/audio I/O. Media can be accessed/transferred by removable drives, networked operation, etc. Both SD and HD material can be edited and mixed together on the timeline.

Softworks is ideal for lower-cost additional systems in a network - in today's dynamic world it also provides a real working environment for editors on the move with laptop.

Priced at under £5K (€7,500/ $9,500), Softworks is available with or without the Lightworks Console.

Softworks LE is the "light" edition of Softworks without all the effects but at a price of less than £2K (€3,000/ $3,800). It offers the ideal solution for a portable system allowing a story to be cut together with the renowned Lightworks ease of use.

Lightworks VIT - Download Brochure

The Lightworks VIT is a multi-channel Ingest facility which provides efficient Ingest without tying-up valuable Edit Suites. With support for up to four simultaneous ingest channels and a full toolset for optimised ingest, Lightworks VIT provides a cost effective solution when time is important or when Edit Suites can be better utilised for Editing rather than Ingest.

Supporting SD and HD formats and a range of codecs, Lightworks VIT can operate in many different applications. Media ingested can be utilised in most popular current edit systems and operations and metadata interchange have been optimised for use with Lightworks Alacrity.

Those familiar with the previous Lightworks VIP product will see the same fast operation and simplified workflow but tailored to today's multi-format world.

Lightworks Sharknet - Download Brochure

Sharknet comprises a full range of networking options for any of the Lightworks products.

Sharknet takes advantage of the latest gigabit and 10-gigabit Network Attached Storage technologies as well as 2-gigabit and 4-gigabit Fibre Channel Storage Area Network (SAN) technologies to fit the requirements of the user exactly.

Networks can therefore be scaled from a simple 2-user system with gigabit connection through to a 100-seat network and beyond. Any network can include full path, disk, controller and enclosure redundancy. Features such as dynamically-assignable user workspaces and flexible user rights are available for those who require it. Storage can scale from a couple of hours to tens of thousands of hours of media.

Sharknet takes advantage of best-of-breed technologies to provide user-driven solutions - always delivering a thoroughly tested and made-to measure solution without the costs associated with proprietary storage solutions.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alacrity Brochure

Softworks Brochure

Lightworks VIT Brochure

Sharknet Brochure

Sales

Lightworks Sales are handled by headquarters in the UK, and by a network of distributors worldwide.

Contacts

sales@lwks.com

UK:

+44 (0)1256 810123

Sales & Distributors