splitted screen / 2 videos on 1 screen

[Bacchus]

Hi all

want to to split screen to have 2 video's 1 above the other.
I can do so with moving path; but I wanne have the middle 50% of 1 video on Top and the middle 50% of the second on the bottom
So let's say I need to crop 25% from the top and bottom of each video and then put he 2 parts together on 1 screen

Somebody do have a sollution for this ?

Kind regards

[MonroePoteet]

This seems to work for me: Create an image in a paint program the same size as your clips, with black across the middle and white above and below. Place one clip in Va, use a motion path to move it up halfway (changing the Y-axis center spot). Put the other clip in V1, and use the Overlay options:

Type: Grey Key
Mask: Image Matte - select the mask created above

Then use another motion path to move the V1 masked clip down halfway.

mTp

[Bacchus]

Hi MTP

thanks for your advise

this works

[Gorf]

Alternatively, use the crop filter on each to get the vide the size and shape you want, then use a moving path on each to put it where you want.

Makes no difference to the result, except that you are using one less program and have one less external asset (the matte) to remember to archive.

[Bacchus]

Hi Gorf

thanks for the response
I tried the crop filter
but then I had the problem that there was alway's 1 part of the screen black. Seemed to me that the upper cropped part of the lower window always stayed on the screen

[MonroePoteet]

I tried this as well. The "Crop" filter doesn't actually crop, just fills the "unwanted" portion of the frame with the given fill color.

This will still work. I found that by choosing a bizarre color (i.e. one that doesn't appear in the video clip, like pure, garrish green or something) for the fill color on the Crop Filter, I can then apply the "Blue Screen" overlay options, select the bizarre color using the eyedropper in the left window, and get the crop to work as expected. You might have to take the "Similarity" up to at least two to get it to work, though.

I, personally, prefer the separate greyscale mask, but the Crop Filter solution is very nice.

mTp

[Gorf]

I tried this as well. The "Crop" filter doesn't actually crop, just fills the "unwanted" portion of the frame with the given fill color.

Wow - you do like making work for yourself!

You clear the background colour check box (so the crop fills the screen) and then use a moving path on the cropped video to put it where you want onscreen.

[MonroePoteet]

Thanks for the completed solution. Very nice. Certainly not the way I expect a crop to work. It'd be nice if the Crop Filter, as well as any moving path, would generate an internal alpha channel which could be enabled via the Overlay Options. Ah well, live and learn.

Edit: Ah...just put it in V1 or above, and it *does* have an implied alpha channel as I wanted. As I said, very nice.

mTp

[Bacchus]

Hi Guy's

thanks for the help and explications
also tried the "blue screen overlay"
I got it to work
can sometimes be nice to do some tricks with

Kind regards