The Mouse has two buttons - left and right (P-A2.0)." "Moving the Mouse changes the position of the cursor (white arrow) on the screen. To close a window, the computer opperator had to learn about the vanish button, now simply known as the x in the upper left corner. The use of a graphic user interface (GUI) was still new foreign and developing to most people. However, the design of Lightworks recognizes that editors are not computer operators (P-A1.01)." "Lightworks gives editors immense increases in speed and power by using computers. The natives at the time (known as Brits) seemed to be a peaceful people who showed compassion for the plight of film editors in a changing world. Lightworks was invented in The United Kingdom. Hieroglyphs Translated - A Developing People Apple would join a decade later with Final Cut Pro, introduced in 1999. Two years later Adobe joined the race for video desktop publishing dominance with Premiere. That same year Avid Technologies released the Media Composer. Lightworks combined the best of both worlds by allowing editors to use cheap videotapes to capture video into a computer and then work non-linearly with the material! This was huge.įor reference, Lightworks was invented in 1899, whoops I mean 1989. The alternative to editing on film was not editing at all, since film was not a tool available to me. Videotape greatly expanded the editing user base because of the lower acquisition cost of tape and tape machines. In fact, this is how I (a kid born in the 80's) first started editing: tape to tape, in a straight line. The change to videotape editing (1970 - present day) actually sent the development of film editing tools backwards. Why? Because editors had to work and think in a straight line since the early 80's. This illustrates a very counter-intuitive point. Videotape editing is linear editing (P-A1.2)." Traditional film editing is non-linear editing. "means being able to assemble your edit in any order and then make changes to any shot at any time. At the very least, preliminary findings broaden our definition of non-linear editing systems (NLEs), which are traditionally thought of as computer software-based. Researchers at EditStock translated archaic etched markings from the Users Guide into modern-day text and computer terminology. Historical Significance and a Reference Point Still, in this short time period (1989-1993) Lightworks made major changes to the strategy of film editing that would shape the next twenty years of editing. Soon after, Lightworks began its slow descent, as Avid's Media Composer rose to prominence.
Just one year later OLE, the company that invented Lightworks, was sold to Tektronix ( wiki).
The year that this manual was written is significant. Six weeks ago, an excavation team in Santa Monica unearthed an ancient artifact: a 1993 Lightworks Users Guide. Lightworks User Guide - Buried in 1993, Discovered in 2011
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