Lightworks Touch

Lightworks Touch is a third-generation editing system that incorporates the ergonomic flexibility of the classic Lightworks and Heavyworks products within a state-of-the-art computing environment. The result is faster response, better picture quality, more effects and next-generation networking capabilities.

Lightworks Touch's intuitive interface is designed to put the editor at the very centre of the entire editing process. Like its predecessors, Lightworks Touch offers a comprehensive set of task-specific features designed to increase efficiency and complement an editor's individuality. From the comfortable feel of the control console to the power of its Graphical User Interface and extensive database capabilities, this is a Lightworks in every sense. Added to the mix are real-time 2D DVE, colour correction and luma/chroma keying functions. Lightworks Touch's capabilities can be further expanded with Adobe Premiere-style plug-ins, as well as other third party Effects Applications.

Lightworks Touch can be configured as a stand-alone workstation or connected to a fibre channel network for multiple users. The result is Lightworks' most versatile editing system ever.

Material Capture

* Variable picture quality from offline to online resolution (40-1 min./GB)

* Dual field capture

* 4:3/16:9 switchable

* 24-, 25- and 30-frame capture from PAL, drop- or nondrop-frame NTSC, either with pulldown, straight or telecined fast.

* Mix film-originated material from different telecine modes in the same project

* Material labels can be captured via VITC, LTC and RS-422 using any proprietary data format, or any customized specification

* Batch digitizing

* Redigitize and replace material on any timecode and replace on any quality

* Store a list of devices to capture metadata efficiently

Picture Editing

* Award-winning Lightworks interface

* Dual stream video

* Frame buffer for graphics and stills

* Import BMP, TARGA, JPEG, GIF, TIFF and PNG files as stills or sequences

* Import Quick Time, MPEG, AVI and Thomson MDA files

* Ergonomic Lightworks console speeds up editing with dedicated and user-defined keys

* Immediate and responsive forward and reverse play, shuttle and jog

* Edit and trim seamlessly and instantly

* Single-track transitions (dissolves and wipes)

* Stripview magnification and dynamic scrolling while playing

* Automatically create edits from whole shots or sections of shots

* 24-frame editing with full film code support

* Choose 24-, 25- or 30-frame elapsed timecode for accurate program timings

* Fully mappable keyboard and console functions

Audio Editing

* Full analog-style audio scrub

* Real-time playback of up to 16 Channels within an edit

* Up to 16 Real-time audio crossfades within an edit

* Automatic audio channel checkerboarding for multi-track postproduction

* Real-time audio level control/mixing

* View audio waveforms on the Stripview

* Sync any number of audio and video tracks together

* Auto synchronization of audio and video material using any available timecodes

* SRC – Sample Rate Conversion on playback, Different audio sampling rates can be mixed within the same edit

Material and Edit Playout

* Generate LTC timecode on playout

* Insert to pre-striped timecode on playout

* PAL and NTSC playout with or without pulldown

* User programmable BITC from any label of any shot in the edit

Effects Creation and Representation

* Unlimited video tracks

* Over 100 wipe patterns with fully adjustable border softness , edge colour and positioning

* Real-time chroma and luma keys

* FX Curve editor (all internal effects parameters are keyframeable)

* Video Effects Router - Treeview nodal effects representation

* Drag and drop placement of effects elements

* Film- and video-style dissolves

Real-Time 2D Effects

* Superimpositions

* Flips, flops and resizes

* Pushes and reveals

* Picture-in-picture

* Mosaics

* Colour correction

* Colour tints and posterisation

Titling

* Inscriber Titlemotion character generator plug-in (pre-loaded)

Plug-In Support

* Boris FX™ and Graffiti™

* Ultimatte™

* Hollywood FX™

Assistant Applications Support

* Digital Fusion

* Combustion®

Databases

* Import external shot logs and telecine databases

* Full database search capability

* Display search results as a Gallery or database
* Store Galleries and databases in racks, enabling flexible project organization

* Customize database views by adding, deleting or moving fields

* Support for video and audio reel number and/or timecode information including 24P video

* Data capture from film Keycode, Acmade code,timecode, roll number and daily reel number

* Import/export for all common EDLs

* Create film cut lists from 35mm, 35mm 3-perf and 16mm

* Produce cut lists from film shot at 24, 25 or 30 fps and transferred in any telecine format, including 24 fps film transferred fast (30 fps)

* Import of Avid ALE files

Workflow

* Utilize standard Microsoft Windows™ functions, including tool tips, context-sensitive mouse cursors,file drag and drop, context menus, etc.

* Create defaults for different film types from within the interface

* Update video and film information after digitizing with Retrofit™

* Automatically divide long recordings into manageable pieces with Autochop™

* Full support for all PAL film routes, including PAL pulldown

* Flexible synchronizer tool for choosing which labels to use and which parts of shots

* View film cut lists and copy them to floppy disk from the interface

* Import /export user preferences (keyboard layout, room setup, project settings, viewer/timeline settings)

* Import and Export of OMFI, OMFII and AAF

* Export of TARGA and BMP files

* Consolidate to save space

Networking

* Workgroup editing with centralized material storage, user setups and projects

* Material file sharing over the network

* Uses any high-bandwidth network, including a fibre-channel storage area network (SAN)