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PPro – is there an intuitive split screen workflow yet?
Hi all,
I feel almost embarrassed asking about this, but it appears to have me perplexed!…
I want to edit using a simple 2+1 or vertical thirds split screen effect (something that would be a piece of cake for a short sequence in AE – however I have ALOT to edit and realtime playback/feedback as I cut is essential in this case)
However I can’t seem to find an elegant solution for building this template in PPro without nesting each shot and pan/scanning and doing all animation in the nest so it doesn’t take the track matte with it. I want the 3-up or 4-up split screen frame to stay put and move the shots inside around to frame the action as I go. This is near on impossible when you can’t view the result as you go – instead I’m flicking backwards and forwards between comps for reference to fine tune what should take seconds. What might make it easier is the ability to ‘lock’ the parent sequence’s program window when working in child comp (a la AE) – can’t figure out how!
I searched this topic on here a bit before posting, and it seems to be a common problem – has an *effective* workaround been figured out by anyone yet?
I’ve tried track matte, set matte, etc and they all do the same…moving mattes!!!
I need to figure this out before going much further into the edit.
Any help MUCH appreciated!
Jim.
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Track Matte should do the trick, but try the Crop effect or a Garbage Matte.
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Hi Ann,
Don’t mean to be rude, but did you read my post?….the problem is when I scale or move the video layer that I want to pan/scan within the matte shape, it moves/scales the matte layer too. I need the matte layer(s) to stay still at all times and it won’t!
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You can create a new title and then add shapes to it. Make your title background black. So you have white shapes and a black background. Put this title on layer 4 (or wherever) just above the video layers and apply a luma key to it. Set your threshold to 0 and your cutoff to 100 and you will essentially have created a shape matte to mask your videos.
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I hope that helps, see example.
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OK sorry did not read the post well.
Pro works somewhat different then AE as its a NLE. AE is not.
Clip in track one.
Make white shape in title
Set it in track two
Nest clip in track one.
Go into nested clip by double clicking
Add shape to track two and lower opacity.
Animate clip.
When done pook the eyball of track two.
Back into main sequence
Add Track Matte effect to clip and
set it to the shape.
If you want three different clips to animate within a shape.
You need to repeat the proces twice.
Track 1,3 and 5 will contain the nested sequences
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Thanks all, will try this…
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BTW Your still stuck with nesting. Quick access to nested sequence in selected track is Shift+T.
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Ahh…oh yes I see. Hmm…might have to just do whole edit in AE!
Do you know if there’s a way to ‘lock’ or view a parent sequence, whilst I’m adjusting things in the nested comp? Otherwise it’s a bit of a nightmare to see your results in context to the splits.
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Hello Premiere Gurus,
I have the same issue with split screen editing,
Is there anyone who is willing to do a Video Tutorial on this topic? 🙂
It would much appreciated!!Thank You,
Anya
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