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The fixed layout is less intimating, it's got the usual boxes. The flexible layout opens as a blank canvas, so you need to do a quick read and a play, Then you discover that you can do all these things like having multiple timelines, spread your bins out like an investigation board as seen on cop shows and other things that could be complex, but are simple to carry out.

You may feel that's not intuitive, but the universe isn't intuitive, after all Jupiter migrated around the solar system and that's not what you'd expect, but it allows us to be here.
 
Yes, with V14 Lightworks added a more conventional fixed layout option that is easier for newbies. This is the default layout when you install the program. It has a guided sequence of pages for project workflow similar to Resolve: Log, Edit, VFX, and Audio.
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briandrys1 said:
The fixed layout is less intimating, it's got the usual boxes. The flexible layout opens as a blank canvas, so you need to do a quick read and a play, Then you discover that you can do all these things like having multiple timelines, spread your bins out like an investigation board as seen on cop shows and other things that could be complex, but are simple to carry out.
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The fixed layouts used by other NLE's bring to mind broadcast linear tape editing days, and not in a good way. Premiere was always a frustration. Obviously more efficient than tape, but not what I would consider friendly to non-linear thought processes coming from editing film.

I remember a post on the Lightworks forum some years back by one of the senior editors that hangs out, don't know if it was you or not. He was editing a weekly show for BBC that alternated between production teams so he was editing on Avid one week and Lightworks the next. The Avid edits averaged about six hours, Lightworks about two hours.

briandrys1 said:
You may feel that's not intuitive, but the universe isn't intuitive, after all Jupiter migrated around the solar system and that's not what you'd expect, but it allows us to be here.
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My favorite Neil DeGrasse Tyson quote; " The universe is under no obligation to make sense to YOU." :beer:
 
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