Split screening

[Stephen Smith]

There are many ways to do it. One would be to create a black solid and multiple mask shapes and move around to taste. Then you can place your clips behind the wholes the mask shapes have created. Then if you adjust the size of the clip it will be the same every-time.

Or you could decrees the scale of the clips and move them around to taste. If you need to you can use the crop tool. Hope this helps and best of luck.

Stephen Smith
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[Jeff Greenberg]

put three clips in a stack so each clip starts 2 seconds after the prior one.

Do the following at a point in the stack where all three clips are visible:

Scale and crop each down. Move them off the center of the frame.
By scaling it down, each clip won’t be full screen.
By cropping, each clip won’t have all of its pixels.
By repositioning the center, each clip comes up on part of the screen.

As each shot comes on, it’ll have that ’24’ feel.

Best,

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[Mark Suszko]

Got thirty bucks?

https://www.digital-heaven.co.uk/dh_box

Or use their free DH grid program to throw up a grid, then use that to control position and proportioning of your various clips, as a reference standard. Lots of graphic artists base everything on a grid system like this. And if you hate typing numbers and doing math in your head, sliding stuff around and sizing it up to the grid boxes may be simpler for you. Combine the free grid with an understanding of the Rule Of Thirds, and you are on your way.