Split Screen Video

nightrain wrote on 10/1/2009, 8:10 PM

Is there a way in Vegas Pro to split the screen and have two different videos playing? Sort of like picture in picture TV.

I drag race and video my runs both from inside the car and out. I would like to make a movie that has one video as the main screen and a smaller screen off to the lower right showing the other camera view. I've checked out Window Wall (free download), but it doesn't seem to work for me (no application extensions show up in my View menu). I'm sure someone has done this, I'm just not sure what to search for. So far my forum searches have not turned up a thread on this.

Thanks for the help!

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PeterWright wrote on 10/1/2009, 8:41 PM

Put the video you want to insert as PinP on a track above the main video.

Now in the Track header of the higher track, click on the Track Motion icon, and in the window that opens you can resize that pic and place it wherever you want.

This can also be done with Pan Crop at Event level, but applying Track Motion means that whatever is put on that track will immediately become PinP.

nightrain wrote on 10/2/2009, 7:08 PM

Thanks, Peter! That worked great. Exactly what I wanted.

busterkeaton wrote on 10/2/2009, 10:12 PM

You can use that effect on both tracks to get side by side video if you wished as well.

Drag racing may be too short a time for this, but if you could get a interesting visual if halfway through you kept tracks the same and switching the bottom video for the top video, so the picture in picture would change. It would definitely keeps the eyeballs guessing.