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creative split screening
I want to create a whole project in split screen, both halves shot on 4:3. I’d like to have some flexibility in controlling the viewer’s focus, say, by sometimes showing the entire left picture, but cropping the right, and then sliding the left picture half-way off the edge of the screen when I want to feature the right. I want to play around with different possibilities. But having done no split screens or PinP I want to be sure to set up the project in a smart way. For instance, maybe I should set it up as 16:9 so that more of the 4:3 images will show? (Can this even be done, putting 4:3 video into a 16:9 project?) Should I use clip/motion/crop effects or PinP? Any thoughts? Thanks.
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I can only speak from experience in regards to 4:3 in 16:9 – when I’ve doen it before there’s been no problem with the footage other than the fact that it won’t fill the frame – it’ll be pillarboxed with black bars on either side, but since you’re looking to splitscreen them you won’t have a problem worrying about filling the frame when you add the second source.
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My take on what you want;
Put a clip in Video 1 and another in Video 2.
In the Titler, create a luma track matte…left half pure white and right half pure black. Now double the size of the left half, but position the extra half off the left side of the screen so the screen will show an evenly split screen. Put this in Video 3.
Apply the track matte key to the clip in Video 2. In the Effects controls for the Track Matte key, choose Matte: Video 3, Composition: Matte Luma
Now you have control (motion keyframes) over the position of each clip, plus you can keyframe the position values for the track matte to allow either clip to be full frame at times. -
Great advice! Got me solidly on the right track. Thanks.
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