Clip Videos Together

[Monty]

hi all,
i try to do the following and wonder how i can do it:
i wanna simulate kind of splitscreen effect in a video. so i have two cropped videos with 352x576 resolution each. and i want to clip them together to one single 704x576 video.
any idea how i can do this?

big thx,
monty

[SatStorm]

Your videos are Avi or mpeg?

The theory behind is the same: You have to resize to 704 x 576. In case you have avi, you can do this with virtualdub. In case you have mpeg, bad news: You need to re-encode to 704 x 576.

A third alternative, is to do what you wish to do, export and then re-encode the result to 704 x 576

[Monty]

this is not what i wanna do. sorry, you got me wrong.

say, i have a video 352x576 showing a person looking to the right, duration 15 secs. and i have a video 352x576 showing a person looking to the left, duration 15 secs. now i want to put these two videos together into one picture 704x576, so it looks like these two persons looking at each other, duration 15 secs.
i dont want to put these videos one after the other, duration 30 secs.

hope this is better to understand

thx,
monty

[SatStorm]

Yes, now it is more clear to me.
Adobe Premiere do those kind of effects.

[Monty]

ok...any way to do it with a free tool?
like a filter for VDub, add-on or plugin for TMPGEnc?

thx anyway.
monty

[cd090580]

Avisynth can do that for free

[mats.hogberg]

Yes, AVISynth is my suggestion too. Look for "picture in picture", as that's what it basically is. Saw a rather recent thread on this at doom9's avisynth forum

/Mats

[bunyip]

It's actually quite simple, it's just ..

a = Avisource("c:\left.avi",false)
b = Avisource("c:\right.avi",false)
StackHorizontal(a,b)

The 'false' means ignore the audio track in both AVI's, but when you encode the video you can add a seperate audio track.

[racer-x]

Wax will do it easily and it's free. You can get it here:
http://www.debugmode.com/wax/

[Monty]

wow, cool! thx for all this, guys!
downloaded the software and will check out all of this at the weekend.

thx a lot!
monty

[Monty]

had a look into wax last night.
but i didnt find the transition or plugin to combine two vids like i want it.
is there a special plugin to download somewhere else, or which is the the one to use inside wax?

thx.

[gsh]

I assume with Wax it will be like in Premiere - you resize and place one clip in the timeline, and resize and place the second in another video at the same point on the timeline. Possibly the Transform filter?

[racer-x]

Put each clip on it's own track. Right-click on the clip and deselect strech to fit (or something like that, it's been a while). Use the 3d object filter on each clip to move them into the proper place. Wax also suports psd's with transparency, so if you want, you could overlay a nice frame for your clips.

You just have to play around with it until you figure it out. Wax is a very powerfull video editor. And like all powerfull editors, it's a little complex. Once you learn it, you'd be amazed at what it could do, especially since it's free.

I'd write a tutorial, but I don't have the time.

Good Luck!