cropping effect for cloning

[turtle]

hi - have two video clips shot in same circumstances. wanted to create the twin effect in the video. any ideas to achieve this?

[Black Lab]

Can you explain what the "twin effect" is?

[Ken Veal]

If you mean showing the two scenes side by side,depending on what VS version you have you can use two overlays resized to show together.Does this http://phpbb.ulead.com.tw/EN/viewtopic.php?t=17273 help .....................Ken

[turtle]

ok.. what i am trying to achieve is creating clones of a person doing multiple activities in single frame. have seen people achieving it in various youtube videos using the X2 version which i have.

I have shot two videos on a tripod- in the first video, a person is sitting on a chair and in the second video the same person dancing on the side of the chair.
now i need to merge these two videos together to get the twin effect where the person is sitting as well as dancing at the same time.

thanks for your responses.

[sjj1805]

Shoot both videos from the same position mounted on a tripod then overlay one on the other - adjust the transparency - might look a bit ghost like though.

Another way is to have someone in the left of the screen, then shot again in the right of the screen - again from a camcorder mounted on a tripod.
Place "left" on the video track and "right" on the overlay track. Now use the cropping filter to remove the left half of "right".

[Black Lab]

what i am trying to achieve is creating clones of a person doing multiple activities in single frame. have seen people achieving it in various youtube videos using the X2

Can you post a link to an example?

[turtle]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZWtAUvJAIY

check the one done on videostudio. there are several others through other softwares like aftereffects / vegas etc. just type "cloning video effect"/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8SpaZgjMSM is another example ... not sure of the software though!!