The picture-in-picture effects are located in Video | DVE (Presets). Next, open the Effects dialog via the button at the bottom of the editor window. Because of the focus on professional video editing, there are not too many of these: Hollywood editors work with clean cuts and rarely with colorful animations.įigure 8: After a short learning curve, you can achieve effects like picture-in-picture with relative ease. Then, using the right mouse button, you can pop up the context menu ( Figure 6) and select the desired effect. You can create classical transitions by placing the cursor at the point where two clips intersect again, the horizontal H appears to show you the right position. The effects are managed in the Add Effects window, which opens when you click the Effects button below the timeline to the right.

With just a few mouse clicks, Lightworks also supports picture-in-picture compositions with extensive configuration options. Lightworks also offers vignettes and sharpening and softening of the image. The classic effects include color correction and color effects functions such as color keying and overlaying different tracks originate from the professional sector. In a dialog, Lightworks helps you compile combinations of clips, based on various criteria you can then apply the same effect to all of them. You can double-click or drag and drop to apply the desired effect to the current clip. Figure 5: Lightworks comes with numerous effects for pepping up your video recordings, including blurs, color filters, and mosaic patterns.

Lightworks transitions