How to I put 4 mini videos on ONE screen?

[Gromit137]

I want to split the screen into 4 equal simultaneous movies (top-left/right and bottom-left/right... do I use PIP (picture-in-picture)... do it once, then again, then again, then again...producing a dv-avi each time...will quality degrade doing that... is there a better way... I use PowerDirector 5.0 (Cyberlink)... is there a program that does this?
Thanks in advance.

[dipstick]

Any NLE that supports multiple video tracks should let you do it. I never used PowerDirector 5.0, so I can't comment on it other than read the support files.

Premiere, vegas and many more will do this easily. You can also do it for Free with Wax2.

[guns1inger]

If you have avisynth installed, look up the help files for stack, or search this forum for it. I have seen a couple of posts that have scripts to do just what you need.

[jimmalenko]

If you have avisynth installed, look up the help files for stack, or search this forum for it. I have seen a couple of posts that have scripts to do just what you need.

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/userguides/99389.php#crop

Code:

AVISource("e:cap.avi")
q1=crop(0,0,360,288)
q2=crop(360,0,360,288)
q3=crop(0,288,360,288)
q4=crop(360,288,360,288)
l1=StackHorizontal(q4,q3)
l2=StackHorizontal(q2,q1)
StackVertical(l1,l2)

With 4 seperate videos, you'd need to do something like the following:

q1=AVISource("e:cap1.avi")
q2=AVISource("e:cap2.avi")
q3=AVISource("e:cap3.avi")
q4=AVISource("e:cap4.avi")
l1=StackHorizontal(q4,q3)
l2=StackHorizontal(q2,q1)
StackVertical(l1,l2)

[gadgetguy]

With 4 seperate videos, you'd need to do something like the following:

q1=AVISource("e:cap1.avi")
q2=AVISource("e:cap2.avi")
q3=AVISource("e:cap3.avi")
q4=AVISource("e:cap4.avi")
l1=StackHorizontal(q4,q3)
l2=StackHorizontal(q2,q1)
StackVertical(l1,l2)

... and you'll have to resize to fit it on the screen.
You can resize using Lanczos4resize. You have the option of resizing the whole thing after the StackVertical, or you can resize each video to a quarter of the screen size before the Stack commands. Try them both to see which works better with your specific videos.