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Hi guys, I have a questions and very sorry if it's been asked before, since I can't find any help.
I am trying to make a video from two cameras. It would be great if could have two windows at the same time, so that I can compare the footage and get the best angle for each shot. Is there any way to do this or make the process of making a video from two different angles a bit easier.

Thanks a million,

Sean

This is a really good question.
I am about to take a trip to
Disney World and will be taking 2 video camcorders with us
this time instead of the 1, and I would like to see what these guys
answers are to that question myself.

Have a look at
http://phpbb.ulead.com.tw/EN/viewtopic. ... lit+screen ...........Ken

Ken,
I think what they're after is not a split-screen effect, but rather being able to use 2 monitors, and have the preview window in one monitor while the other shows the rest of the program.

This is not possible with VS, because you can not separate any of the modules in the user interface. With a "pro" line, like the discontinued MSP8, this can be done.

Alternatively - if you mean the best way to mix the footage from two camcorders taken at the same location then you can view this link:
VS & MS: Multi-Camera Editing.

If its split screen effects you're after then
Procedures for a Split Screen Effect in VS10+

If its using Dual Monitors then see the reply by Ron (vidoman) above.

I have come up with some possible answers out of all the suggestions
above.

Setup #1
If you do not have a lot of computing power, doing the split screen
would be the best thing to do and its easy to setup.

Setup#2
If you have the computing power, there is another way to do 2 preview
screens.
If you have Virtual Dub or some other editing software, First startup
VS11.5 and select a video, then startup Virtual Dub and select a video.
Use VS11.5 as the background window and select Virtual Dub and move
it right over next to the VS11.5 preview screen. Worked really good and
you can resize the Virtual Dub window to match the size of the VS11.5
preview Window. You just can not start the 2 videos at the same time,
and you need to turn off the audio unless you need to listen to both at the
same time.

What I mean by computing power is that I tryed this setup on my older
smaller Dell with XP running VS7 and Virtual Dub at the same time and it
had a hard time running both programs playing video at the same time.
My new Dell XPS Quad Core had no problem at all running both programs
and videos at the same time.

Setup #3 If you have 2 monitors hooked up to one computer , you can do
the above and have 2 full screens. One with VS11.5 and the other with Virtual Dub.
I did not like it this way as I did setup #2 which put the 2 preview
windows right next to each other for better viewing.

Setup#4
If you have 2 computers setting on your desk like I do then you can do 2 monitors this way.
So I startup a video on the VS11.5 computer then on the second computer
I can startup VS7 or Virtual Dub and have the 2 videos running.
This works but I still prefer setup #2 .

So what do you think?