Convert to Lightworks
June 18, 2019 —
Jakob Dalsgaard
The Lightworks application is a very nice non-linear video editing system - and, when 720p is sufficient, free of charge! However, it's a bit picky on import formats. I've found the easiest approach to this is installing FFMpeg and batch converting everything you want to import to mpegts, FullHD, 46kHz stereo.
To do so, I've created a script, should work on all unices, available here: convert-to-lightworks -- and also a .bat file for Windows lusers, available here: convert-to-lightworks.bat. They should both support just dropping files onto them from a file manager.
To installl ffmpeg on Elementary OS Freya release, do this:
sudo cat "deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org wheezy main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/deb-multimedia.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install deb-multimedia-keyring
sudo apt-get install ffmpeg