Side by Side video?

[zapster]

Any suggestions on the best way to create a movie that is playing two video streams next to each other?

[Soopafresh]

Avisynth script.

Left=Directshowsource("left_frame.avi")
Right=Directshowsource("Right_frame.avi")
stackhorizontal(left,right)

[zapster]

That is very cool. Unfortunately, I need to see both streams so I can synch them up.

[guns1inger]

I do this in Vegas all the time. Just drop both clips (sometimes more) onto their timelines, then either split the screen with Event Pan and Crop, or lower opacity on the top clip so I can see both. Even better if you can use the audio to sync the clips.

[manono]

That is very cool. Unfortunately, I need to see both streams so I can synch them up.

That's exactly what Soopafresh's AviSynth script does:

http://avisynth.org/mediawiki/StackHorizontal

You did say you wanted to have them display side-by-side.

[Alex_ander]

... so I can synch them up.

If you need it for smth. like previewing multiangle, you can add a command for trimming the first frames in one (or both) of the imported sources in the above script, like this:

Left=DirectShowSource("left_frame.avi").Trim(20,0)

then adjust trim numbers in AVSP (it should generate sliders).

[stantheman1976]

I do this in Vegas all the time. Just drop both clips (sometimes more) onto their timelines, then either split the screen with Event Pan and Crop, or lower opacity on the top clip so I can see both. Even better if you can use the audio to sync the clips.

I've done this many times also. Vegas can do a ton of stuff. I learn something new almost every project.

[SLK001]

I use a "half and half" video to sync up video and also to check the performance of different filter settings. This results in a normal video window with one half on the right and one half on the left, with a black bar dividing the two.

mpeg2source("d:\Experiment\CHHTEST.D2V") 

v1=crop(0,0,350,480).addborders(0,0,2,0)
v2=crop(352,0,352,480)

stackhorizontal(v1,v2)

[Bjs]

Same can be done using wax2

[SLK001]

I should have said that the right half of video 1 is shown on the right and the left half of video 2 is shown on the left.

[manono]

Yeah, that might have helped. Still easy in AviSynth. Before doing the StackHorizontal, crop away the right half of the left video and the left half of the right video. I'd give you a script if I knew the source resolution.

Oh, reading a little bit up it looks like SLK001 has already given a script example for that.