Here's a tuff one

[TheNob]

What I really need to do is take two different pieces of footage and play them on the screen at one time. I guess what I'm really saying is, I need to do some sort of split-screen effect. One video playing on the left while another is on the right - or something to that effect.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
TheNob

[hitechjunkie]

I seem to remember someone posting an answer to this using Adobe Premiere. I'll see if I can find it...

[hitechjunkie]

this is what i found so far...
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There is a transition called Cube Roll or something like it which will
do this. It compresses one source off to the left of the screen while
expanding the 2nd source on from the right.

Put your 1st source on Video A track, 2nd on Video B track. Put the cube
roll transition in the middle. Stretch the transition to the length of
the video clips. Double click the transition, set the start and end
values to 50%. When you render this you should get a "half way"
transition with what you are looking for.
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[hitechjunkie]

here is something i found from p.294 of the Premiere v6.01 manual

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1. Place 2 clips on adjacent tracks. One track must be on a superimpose
track.

2. Select the upper clip and choose Clip - Video Options - Transparency.

3. For Key Type, choose "None".

4. Drag the corner handles in the "Sample" area to split the screen into
two sections.

5. To view the effect, click the page peel icon. Click Ok.

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don't know about any other video editing package...

[dinesh]

If someone wants a freeware solution Try this:
You need to install AVISynth for this.
http://www.videotools.net
Create a blank text file with .AVS extension.
Assume your AVI files are A.avi and B.avi and both are of sizes 320 x 240.
Enter the following 3 lines in your .AVS file. Change filenames and sizes as required.

vid1 = AVISource("C:\Video\A.avi").BilinearResize(320,120 )
vid2 = AVISource("C:\Video\B.avi").BilinearResize(320,120 )

fvid = StackHorizontal(vid1,vid2)

The above compresses the footages vertically.

Open the .AVS file in WMP or VirtualDub or TMPGEnc.



<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: dinesh on 2002-01-09 16:00:00 ]</font>