

This should match your Lightworks project. f specifies the format, in this case “image2” means an image sequence. Below is a brief description of all of the options used in this command. Since we have thousands of images we want to combine into one video, we need a few more options. When converting a video, usually all you’d need to use is the “-i” flag to specify the input file. The first thing Avconv wants to know is what files it should convert and anything special it should know about them.


Lets break down this command so you know what’s happening here. If you don’t have it installed, you can do so with the following terminal command:Īvconv -f image2 -r 30 -i movie-%06d.tga -i movie.wav -r:v 30 -c:v libx264 -preset veryslow -qp 0 -pix_fmt yuv420p -s:v hd1080 -c:a flac out.mkv We’ll be using a program called Avconv to compile our image sequence. Leave the destination folder and name the same, and export again. Meaning all of the files will be named movie dash six digit sequence number dot tga.Įxport the image sequence, then in the export settings change the format to “WAV”. This will be the prefix for the image files that Lightworks creates. Select the new folder as your destination folder and also set the name to something short and simple, like “movie”. Click on the destination folder and navigate to where you want to save your exported video.Ĭreate a new folder to hold your images. PNG sometimes introduced artifacts into random frames, and JPG looks to have been significantly compressed already. I found TGA produced the most consistent results. Open the export settings window and change the format to “Image sequence” and the file type to “TGA”. Something about the way that Lightworks exports UYVY doesn’t play well with video converters, so you end up stuck with a huge archive video that Lightworks itself can’t even re-import! So until Edit Share fixes these problems, here’s a workaround for exporting a high quality master copy of your edits.

That’s because UYVY is totally raw, uncompressed video. Exporting to UYVY will give you a ridiculously massive file in the range of ten gigabytes per minute. Exporting to DVCPRO100 (the Lightworks preferred format) will result in a video that doesn’t play in some players or plays back with strange black borders in others. The Lightworks for Linux beta currently has many issues with exporting videos.
