Split Screen

[Puzzled Films]

I tried searching but I could not find anyhting. Sorry if this has been addressed elsewhere.

I am trying to get a split screen look Vertically. I need half the screen to show one event and the other half to show another. I will be shooting two people doing the same things but in different places, I will be using a timing system to get the correct movements down. I need the screen to be similiar to "24" and "Phonebooth"

I found a way to do it with opening titles and text but I need to split 2 events into the same framing - one on each side with actual footage rather than text. Please help this Novice.

 

[jeditdv]

Vol 3 #1 of my newsletters presents several ways to do a split screen.

 

[aw grasshopper]

Edward -

Thank you for this info! I was trying to do the same thing yesterday and finally gave up. I know this is a very easy thing to do in Vegas but for the life of me I could not figure it out. Worse part is I have done in the past. As usual, your help is very much appreciated.

Grasshopper (yep - from Creative Cow forum)

 

[Puzzled Films]

That is very good, Thank you.

I do have another question though. By Panning and cropping or using a mask, will this degrade the image quality or make the image look smushed. I would like it to look natural. I would also like to create the ability to put the frames anywhere on the screen - Like "Phonebooth" and have them move or expand or shrink. Will doing this make the image quality go down or not look like the original footage that was shot?

 

[jeditdv]

As long as you're simply panning or selecting the portion to show, it won't look "smushed". Give things a try and I think you'll see they look fine. Now if you enlarge, it may look a little soft but the same size or smaller should do great.

 

[Puzzled Films]

Thanks so much for your help. I will play around tonight