Quarto screen

stelch · Post by **stelch** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 9:09 pm

Hi
Can you make with VideoStudio 10plus a quarto screen. In other words to split the screen into 4 parts (2 on top and 2 at the bottom)?

Stelios

Post by **Ron P.** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 12:09 am

By Quarto Screen are you meaning Picture in Picture effect? You can "split" the screen in that fashion, using 4 tracks. Just resize the video/images in each track so they only occupy ¼ of the screen.

stelch · Post by **stelch** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 4:44 am

I though with VideoStudio 10 you only have 2 video tracks.

Stelios

Post by **Ron P.** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 4:55 am

Yes with VS10, however with VS10 Plus you have 6 overlay tracks...

daniel · Post by **daniel** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 10:38 am

and in the case you have VS10 standard, you could make the two top quarters in a VSP, save it, create another VSP where you insert the two lower ones, save it then create a 3rd VSP and import the two first VSPs as base and overlay clips. Yes it's tedious but it works.

stelch · Post by **stelch** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 1:29 pm

Ron P.

I do have VideoStudio10 plus but in the time line I can only see the main video truck and only one overlay one. Where are the other4?

Stelios

Black Lab · Post by **Black Lab** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 2:19 pm

Above your timeline are a series of icons. First of all, you must be in Timeline view (click the second icon from the left). Now, the second icon from the right is the Overlay Track Manager. Click that and a box opens where you can check off which track(s) you want to include/exclude from the timeline.

railroadguy · Post by **railroadguy** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 4:43 pm

Here is an example I worked up last night as I was screwing around with this feature, titles and the "fancy" music that comes with 10+.

http://ribbonrail.com/Videos/test1.wmv

stelch · Post by **stelch** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 9:01 pm

Thanks everybody. I never new that, but I guess I should have read the manual. This program really rocks. I have downloaded Sony Vegas Movie Studio 7 to give it a try but I really think its too complicated and not easy as VideoStudio 10. I cant's understand why guys praise it so much.

Stelios

stelch · Post by **stelch** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 11:55 am

Hi Dan

How did you resize the first track. I could only resize the overlay tracks.

Stelios

daniel · Post by **daniel** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 1:05 pm

in the Attributes tab, click distort clip then drag the handles.
Use the Show Grid lines function to help align clips.

Black Lab · Post by **Black Lab** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 1:59 pm

stelch wrote:Hi Dan

How did you resize the first track. I could only resize the overlay tracks.

Stelios

You don't have to put a clip in the main track. You can have all your clips in the overlay track(s).

railroadguy · Post by **railroadguy** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 3:10 pm

Black Lab wrote: You don't have to put a clip in the main track. You can have all your clips in the overlay track(s).

Black Lab has it right. I used black Color on the main track and then four overlay tracks for the video.

Black Lab · Post by **Black Lab** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 3:30 pm

railroadguy wrote:
Black Lab wrote: You don't have to put a clip in the main track. You can have all your clips in the overlay track(s).
Black Lab has it right. I used black Color on the main track and then four overlay tracks for the video.

You don't even need to put a color clip in the main track. Whatever you have your background color preference set to (File>General Tab>Background Color) is what the color will be in the main track.