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Nesting 3 Video Clips for Movement
I am trying to put three video clips side by side as they are playing, scale them down and have them move from right to left across the screen. I keep having the problem of either I have them fit into the 720×480 screen, nest it into another sequence so I can move all three together and enlarge but thats makes them all chewed or, since it doesnt all fit in the 720×480 screen, when I go to move it just shows part of the last video clip. Hope this made sense and I appreciate any help
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I’m afraid it does not make sense. Please post screenshots.
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Eddie -
I do apologize for my lack of clarity. I have three clips of video that I have scaled down and put side by side by side across the middle of the screen. What I am attempting to do is have all three video clips move across the screen in unison from right to left (similiar to a ticker on CNN but not as fast) starting off screen on the right and moving almost off screen to the left. What I am having a problem with is getting the size of videos I want to move across the screen. I either put all three videos into a sequence, scale them down to fit within the 720×480 and then try and increase the size of the sequence once its nested. this just kills the video quality. Or I try and make them the size I want ( a little smaller then the screen) which of course they all dont fit onto the screen, nest the sequence and try and move them. What happens here is that since all three videos aren’t fitting on the original sequence screen, when I move this nested sequence it cuts off the video (right side) that isn’t visible as I move it. I had read another post about using the transform filter and I seem to be closer but I’m still not there. LOL If this was Final Cut I would be done I just can’t seem to get this in Premiere. Hope this is a little more clear. I hope. Thanks for the help.
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After you have sized the three clips such that they all fit across the frame you can keyframe the position of each clip so that they scroll into view.
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Eddie -
Thanks Eddie,
I was trying to avoid having to keyframe all three videos seperately and was hoping I could just nest and keyframe just the nested sequence across the screen. I ended up finding a solution that I should’ve had earlier and that was just using after effects to do what I wanted. It seems there isn’t an easy way in Premiere to grab all three video tracks and move them together across the screen. If anyone does know a way I’d love to know it. Thanks again Eddie -
Put the 3 clips scaled down next to each other in a sequence, fitting the screen from left to right.
Now put this sequence in a new sequence and keyframe motion, now all 3 clips move together. -
Thanks Ann,
That had already been tried and what happens is that when you try to scale it up to fit the size you want it degrades the quality oif the original. I was shown the answer to my question by another editor that I know locally. What you do is scale the first video to the size you desire. Create the movement across the screen with the desired keyframes on the original. Insert your second clip above the first clip and copy and paste attributes from the first clip into the second clip. Slide your second clip back in the timeline so that its staggered above the original. Adjust the distance between the two clips as you want them to appear moving across the screen by adjusting the time the second clip starts in the video 2 slot. Do this to any other video clips in the same fashion above your other clips and you end up with three video clips moving in unison across the screen. This was the effect I was trying to do. Thanks for everyones help. I hope I explained what I was trying to do and hopefully I explained the answer clearly enough as well.
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