Import and edit H.265 MOV files in Lightworks

Facing problems when importing MOV files to Lightworks for editing? If so, follow this tutorial, guanranteed to get MOV and Lightworks to play nicely.



Lightworks is a professional non-linear editing system (NLE) for editing and mastering digital video in various formats, including 2K and 4K resolutions, and television in PAL, NTSC, and high-definition formats. It is officially stated that MOV is supported by Lightworks. However, due to different video and audio codec, frame rate, resolution, not all MOV files can't be imported to Lightworks natively, especially the H.265 MOV. To import MOV files into Lightworks, you'd better convert MOV to Lightworks more edit-friendly format first.


To fix all the incompatible format or profile settings issue, the best effective solution is perform a conversion process. Here, a simple to use and powerful MOV to Lightworks Converter - Acrok Video Converter Ultimate is highly recommended to you.

With it, you can effortlessly transcode virtually all 720p/1080p/2k/4k MOV files to Lightworks editable H.264 MP4 video. Besides MOV, you can also convert other unsupported file formats such as MP4, AVI, WMV, MKV, FLV, VOB, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, 3GP, AVCHD, MXF, etc into Lightworks, FCP X, After Effects CC, DaVinci Resolve 16, iMovie, Avid Media Composer, Premiere Pro CC, etc. for post video editing workflow. If you are Mac user, please turn to Acrok Video Converter Ultimate for Mac.

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How to convert MOV to Lightworks supported format?

Step 1: Click "Add File" button to load your MOV videos into it.



Step 2: Select "H.264 Video (*.mp4)" from "Format > Common Video" category as the output format.



Click "Settings" button You can flexibly adjust the output video codec, bit rate, frame rate, resolution and audio codec, bit rate, sample rate and channels according to your own needs. Moreover, the program has some simple edit functions like cropping, trimming, splitting, adding effects/watermarks, making 3D, etc. If necessary, click Edit icon to do some simple editing.

Step 3: After all settings is completed, hit "Convert" button to begin the conversion from MOV to Lightworks compatible format conversion process. When the conversion is completed, you can click "Open" button to get the output files effortlessly, and now you will have no problems to import and edit all MOV files with Lightworks.