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Force clip to center of frame
Awhile back I took two 720p videos and edited them side by side (made a sequence that was 2560×720), essentially hacking together my own multi-camera edit before I knew how to do it the legit way. Now I want to put the pieces together in one 720p frame, but of course when I copy-paste to a new 1280×720 timeline one clip is 50% off the left side, one clip is 50% off the right. And since they’re razored into chunks, I would have to drag each one manually back to center. Is there a way to select-all for the chunks in one clip and drag them all at once (could not find a way) or is there a keyboard shortcut that forces the clip back to the center of the frame?
Thanks for the help!
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If I understand what you’re trying to do, the easiest way I can think of is to nest your 2560×720 seq into your 1280×720 seq and adjust the scale to fit the new (smaller) frame.
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Maybe I should put in an image to illustrate my problem.
So I’ve got Camera 1 on the left, in the top shot, and Camera 2 on the right, in the bottom shot. I need a way to get them both in the middle, across multiple chunks of each clip (all razored up from editing), either through a shortcut key one-by-one, or through some batch action.
Thanks again!
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I’d use After Effects, dynamic link from premiere and use an expression.
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So, you want them both in the middle, occupying the same space??
Anyway, to change the position on multiple clips the easiest way is to change the position on one clip, highlight the MOTION parameter in the effects control pane, CTRL-C to copy. Highlight all the other clips (by lassoing) and hit CTRL-V to paste.
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Yeah, I wanted them on top of each other because, essentially, I was multicamera editing (in a roundabout fashion) and now wanted them in the same space because the video cuts between the two.
I ended up doing it manually, which was a real pain, but thank you for the advice! If I ever do something so stupid again, at least I’ll have some idea of how to fix it. 😀
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If you want to reset the motion parameters (which makes the clip centered and full screen) hit the reset button next to the motion parameter in effects control. Make sure it hasn’t created an animation with the time stamp button preactivated. Select the motion parameter (name) copy, select the clips in the sequence and paste. Done.
Manually pushing the clips to fit bak to their default setting must have taken ages…
Cheers JB
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