Is it possible to use Media 100 to do a split screen effect?

[Kieran Matthew]

Hi Jerome,

If it is a simple straight-down-the-middle splitscreen you want, the easiest way is to place the clips in the A & B video tracks on top of each other and do a Fast FX Wipe between them. Set the transition percentages as both 50% and choose horizontal, vertical or diagonal for the split.

Alternatively you could use RED to ovelay a cropped video track over the background, but it is a little overkill if you just want a simple effect.

K

[Jerome Robbins]

Thanks for the quick response. Could you please add detail in the process?
I have 2 8 second clips. I have them lined up on over the other in A & B tracks. I dragged across the length of the clips for a trnsition then chose Wipe-FastFX, I highlighted the vertical box on the side. But, when I play it it only plays the A track in preview. i clicked the Trim Mode and it shows the the A & B tracks in 2 screens side by side. But I need some more step by step please.
thanks for your patience.
Jerome

jerome

[Floh Peters]

[Jerome Robbins] “I have 2 8 second clips. I have them lined up on over the other in A & B tracks. I dragged across the length of the clips for a trnsition then chose Wipe-FastFX, I highlighted the vertical box on the side.”

Thats good so far. Now expand the edit suite window in transition mode (the triangle at the bottom of the edit suite), and set the transition from and to values both to 50%.
Go back to the timeline/Program mode and play back the transition. You should have a realtime playback of the transition. If you have an XR with the HDR board it should play at full quality. If you don

[Jerome Robbins]

Thanks Floh. I now have the split screen with each track playing in separate sides. Now for the fine tuning… Each track is playing its full frame video so there is an overlap of each that is hidden by the other half.

What I want to have is the full image of each track playing in its side of the window so you can see the comparison frame to frame as it plays by. Is there some way to compress the images ( I realize there will be some distortion)? or Can I move the center of each tracks image over to the left or right so they look centered in their respective sides of the screen?

Thanks, ,Jerome

jerome

[Floh Peters]

You can do that in BorisFX or Red. In the transition mode, click the rightmost transition selection and choose Boris FX or Boris RED from the dropdown menu. Now select “Customize” and set up your windows in RED. Scale them both to 50% horizontally and move them that you see both images. Make sure that your beginning keyframes are set to “Hold” mode. Apply to Media 100 and render.

[Michael Slowe]

Floh, I have been following this with interest. Can this be done with the humble Boris Graffiti?

[Curious Turtle]

Hi Michael,

You should be able to do this with the “humble” Grafitti, no problem.

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[Floh Peters]

[Ben Heusner] “You should be able to do this with the “humble” Grafitti, no problem.”

Actually you cannot use Graffiti as a transition in Media 100 HD, so it is not really an option here.

[Jerome Robbins]

In Boris RED. I am so close but very frustrated. I have both movies on different tracks. I selected the top track, in controls i selected the crop, unlocked, set to half screen vertical. So now both movie tracks are on the left side of the screen on top of each other. they both run but you can only see one at at time by shutting the eye on one track. I want them to play on opposite sides of the screen. Right now the left side is black.

I know it can be done. Please give me a few more instructions.
Thanks

jerome

[Floh Peters]

The crop would do more or less the same as the wipe. What you should do is to use the “Scale X” attribute in the “Position” Tab. Select V1, move the cursor in the timeline to the first keyframe and set Scale X to 50%. Then set “Position X” to the left, so that the V1 clip is on the left side. Make sure that the checkboxes next to Position X and Scale X are set to “Constant”.
Select the V2 layer, and also scale it to 50% X-wise. Move x Position to the right, until you have both images next to each other. Make sure that everything is set to “Constant” again. Now you shold have both images playing next to each other; squished together but playing along nicely…