Split Screen Transitions

[Walter Biscardi]

Nope, no plug ins necessary. That’s just multiple video tracks stacked on top of each other and moving around.

REALLY simple to do using Scale, Center and Crop controls. Basically one video is sliding under or above another video and sometimes they’re cropping or wiping at the same time.

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[Gary Ellison]

Hey Walter, thanks for getting back to me.

This is probably a really stupid question but how have they created the black frame around the images? Normally I’d just frame images up and leave a little black inbetween, but with this images are passing underneath and the black frame remains.

Cheers

[Walter Biscardi]

[Gary Ellison] “Or maybe how I could achieve this for free in FCP without having to painstakingly keyframe every shot?”

Yes you will have to keyframe all the movements. That’s what makes the effect work. You don’t just slap a movement on it and say “go.”

Keyframing and movement are all part of editing.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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[Walter Biscardi]

[Gary Ellison] “This is probably a really stupid question but how have they created the black frame around the images? Normally I’d just frame images up and leave a little black inbetween, but with this images are passing underneath and the black frame remains.”

That’s as easy as putting a solid color down below the image or putting a border edge on the image.

I would do this using Mattes and using the Travel Matte functions to overlay in the images. Probably put a white box inside a black box and then use Travel Matte Luma so the white is replaced with the video and the black edge remains.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Editor, Colorist, Director, Writer, Consultant, Author, Chef.
HD Post and Production
Biscardi Creative Media

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[Gary Ellison]

Ah ok, the borders option is what threw me off. I really appreciate your help Andrew thank you.

[Mark Suszko]

I personally find this stuff easier to do in Apple Motion than in FCP now that I’ve been working hard in Motion daily for like three weeks. I would round-trip it from there unless it was only two elements.

My wife, who is a real graphic designer, suggested to me that you want to make good use of the alignment grids overlay when building these things, to get a more aethetically pleasing result right away.