🧵 Turns out, after a journey of many hours with #Lightworks… (and hoped-for alternatives)
… they have introduced new video scopes based on #OpenCL which do not always work.
Since I just recently got to work AMD OpenCL on my #Linux box, these new scopes changed #LKWS behavior to constant crashing, yet it enabled to run #DavinciResolve at all.
The Lightworks #NLE people were smart enough to put a switch in the project workspace's menu to deactivate these “advanced scopes”… yet the switch forgets its setting and needs to be flicked on every start.
This is exactly underlining my criticism about Lightworks these days: They have good ideas, they try to tackle them, but they make things worse by not fully managing.
E.g., there's VST3 audio plugin support now which does work – but on export of the video, it introduces an ugly noise in the beginning of your exported clip. So it's perfect but still useless.
Now trying to remember what I was about to do half a day ago.
