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Chienworks wrote on 7/25/2011, 6:02 PM
If your video card supports it (a lot don't) you could render a single file at double width. For example make a project that's 2560x720 and use track potion to place one camera's view on each side of this frame. When you play it back you can drag the media player window out to fill both screens. Sadly, a lot of video cards only support video overlay on one monitor at a time and the portion on the other monitor will be blank. Easy enough to test it ... play any file in any media player and drag the window so it overlaps both monitors.

Other than that, perhaps you could create one file to start a few seconds before the other, and in that file flash a "cigarette burn" in the corner to queue you to start the other one playing.

Another option might be to create a Windows script that can start two media player instances playing within a fraction of a moment of each other.
richard-amirault wrote on 7/25/2011, 6:46 PM
Would like to have both video tapes timed together and split the monitor to see them. Does anyone have a idea how I would go about this.

Not sure I fully understand what you want. Do you want to do this in Vegas while you are editing? or do you want the finished project to be like this?

In either case the easiest (for me anyway) way to sync the video is to sync the audio tracks. Expand the timeline (left to right) until you can eaisly see the waveform of the audio tracks ... the way I do it is to keep expanding until I have gone too far .. then go back (compress the timeline) a bit.

Find an easily determined audio point one one tape, then look for it on the other tape (muting the audio track not being listened to helps) .. then slide the audio until it matches the other track (the video associated with that audio will follow it along)

Depending on how long the shoot is you may neet to tweak the sync as the timeline progresses. Different cameras shoot at *slightly* different speeds unless they are locked.
MSmart wrote on 7/25/2011, 8:38 PM
........ or we could be talking about simple split screen using Track Motion.

Many YouTube tutorials on the subject.
Chienworks wrote on 7/26/2011, 9:50 AM
Yeah, quite possibly. For some reason when i read "split monitor" i got the impression that the desire was to have the videos play side-by-side and simultaneously on TWO monitors, one for each video stream. That might be wrong.

If it's just a desire to have the videos side-by-side, then create a project with an appropriate frame size (twice as wide as normal) and use track motion to place them one on each side of the frame. Done.