Side-by-Side Video

[VideoDude]

I use Adobe Premier 6.5 and am having a little difficulty figuring this one out... perhaps someone out there has a suggestion? A customer recently shot two videos to compare two different products. I've been given two 640x480 QuickTime movie clips. The customer wants me to show the two videos playing side-by-side on the same screen at the same time.

|----------------------------------|
|          Display Area            |
|                                  |
| |------------|   |------------|  |
| |            |   |            |  |
| |   Clip A   |   |   Clip B   |  |
| |            |   |            |  |
| |------------|   |------------|  |
|                                  |
|                                  |
|----------------------------------|

So the whole idea is to shrink the two videos down so they'll fit on the same screen, and also have them added to the timeline in such a way that they'll play simultaneously. Clear as mud?

Can anyone suggest how I might be able to do this?

[Cornucopia]

It's actually quite easy:

Create a Solid color background (or whatever) and put in in Video Layer1 (the bottommost layer) of the timeline.
Place your VideoA (L) onto the timeline (at the appropriate point) edit: IN VIDEO LAYER2 , and apply a video effect to that clip that resizes it down to ~ 1/4 screen. Might be called "picture-in-picture" or "PIP" or other things. Move it to the left of center.
Place your VideoB (R) onto the timeline (at the same appropriate point) edit: IN VIDEO LAYER3 , and apply another copy of the same video effect, resizing it down to the same ~1/4 screen size. Move this one to right of center.
Render the combined layers to a new movie.

Scott

[VideoDude]

Cornucopia, It's hard to say why, but when I applied the "resize" effect to my clips I wasn't given any options for actually resizing them. I could drag the filter to the clip and the effect would show up on the list of applied effects, but there was no control to help me scale the video. Strange.

Your post, however, got me thinking about other search-terms I should have used when Googling for help. I ended up searching for "premier 6.5 pip" and found this tutorial that showed exactly how to perform the side-by-side (pip) using a filter called "transform". It worked like a charm!

http://www.wrigleyvideo.com/videotutorial/tutdes_quadpip.htm