Split Screen Question: Perfecting Desired Motion Properties

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Split Screen Question: Perfecting Desired Motion Properties

Posted by Freefilms on February 4, 2007 at 10:52 am

i am making a split screen sequence where the screen is divided into four quadrants, surrounded with black frames, kind of like a windowpane. gee this stuff is hard to explain without pictures so if you visit this youtube link you can see exactly what i mean (it’s a draft sequence for a film i’m making):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fj9taV1OFDA

i used to do this in premiere & i had the numbers for the motion of each quadrant perfected but i

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Freefilms replied 19 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 4 Replies
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Enzo Tedeschi
February 4, 2007 at 12:28 pm

Hey Nathan,

I can’t seem to get your photobucket link to work…

If all else fails, you could always build a black cross mask to overlay all the nests and create your black borders, that way it won’t matter if they align perfectly or not…

What you’re doing should be working, though…

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Freefilms
February 5, 2007 at 4:05 am

enzo: thank you for getting back to me so quickly. here’s another link to the framegrab at photobucket:

https://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a327/freefilms/NoelaniStill2.jpg

i’m not sure why the numbers i’ve come up with don’t work, but it’s encouraging for me that you tell me they should. at least i’m on the right track.

your idea about the black cross over the frame sounds good, but i wouldn’t know where to begin! lol!

i appreciate your time.

thanks, nathan
Enzo Tedeschi
February 5, 2007 at 4:15 am

You could knock the cross up pretty quick in photoshop, leaving the video area as transparency, and then import straight into FCP – that would work.

If you wanted to keep it all in FCP, you could nest two black color mattes on top of each other, then crop one to be a thin vertical line, the other a thin horizontal line, and voil
Freefilms
February 5, 2007 at 4:24 am

thanks again enzo. i will have a go & let you know.

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