There are some excellent audio plugin providers out there that make cleaning up, improving or altering audio a breeze. It is with such pleasure to announce that audio plugins can now be used within Lightworks 2022.1. Support For Audio Plugins in VST3, AudioUnit and LADSPA formats (Lightworks Pro Only) If you wish to try the plugins mentioned in the vendors listed above, they do have trial versions which will work and allow you to test, however, they will be protected with watermarks etc. We appreciate that some of you will already have plugins that are not on the supported list above or have various plugins from other providers (free or commercial) we welcome you to try these in the new version and let us know how you get on, we can then begin to grow the list of plugins further. There are some current limitations and known issues with some of the plugins, these have been documented in the Lightworks 2022.1 Release Notes document.

Maxon Version 14.0.4 (Magic Bullet Looks) Windows and Mac Only.

Boris FX version 2021.5 (Continuum and Title Studio) Windows and Mac Only.

NewBlue Version 03 (TotalFX, Titler Pro, Elements, Transitions, Filters, Stylizers and Essentials) Windows and Mac Only.

Below is a list of some of the bigger names we have tested against and support, please pay particular attention to the supported packages: There is a very long list of plugin providers out there that support this standard and as such, we have not tested all of them. OpenFX is an open standard for visual effects plugins and allows plugins written to the standard to work within this new version of Lightworks. This really is an important update to the entire FX engine and opens up an entire world of FX possibilities. This has been a long time coming but we are pleased to announce that 2022.1 now comes with OpenFX support across all three operating systems. Support For OpenFX Plugins (Lightworks Pro Only)

There is a lot to read here regarding updating, licensing, plugins and processes.

It is strongly recommended that you backup your project folder before installing any new version of Lightworks. We are extremely pleased to announce that the next release of Lightworks 2022.1 revision 131437 is now available to download:

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