Split screen edit in FCPX?

I'm having trouble figuring out how to do a split screen edit in Final Cut Pro X. Anyone know how?

It's not a simple as it should be as the keyframe functions in the text controls don't work.
It can be done using the Custom title and title build in/build out properties. Basically make the text the size you want it to be and set In Unit Size to Line. Set the In Scale to zero and the text will scale up. You might also want to set the text baseline down a little so the scale looks more natural.

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Is split screen editing possible in FCP X?

Is split screen editing possible in FCP X?
Many thanks!
KJ

mk,
I just searched the FCPX manual in pdf and there is no mention of side by side or picture in picture. So I created it in iMovie and brought into FCPX and got the inspector info. Guess what, it is now called Crop and Transform. And it works very well. You could have any size video in the frame anywhere you wanted it to be. With key frames you could fly them around, I think.
Hope this helps. I was counting on being able to do this with synced music video takes.
David

Cool Split Screen method

Hi All,
My client wants to use a cool split screen edit..
something like this clip here.
http://israeljustice.com/files/DITS/SplitScreen.wmv
My question is how to approach it?
I dont want just to scale and crop - because I want to pan&zoom a cross an image.
Right now Im using the "BCC pan and zoom" tool - its working - a bit tedious but works.
I want to add titles that will run across a square and than cut on that square's edge.
What do say guys?

Do your panning in a separate sequence, then nest that sequence in the main sequence and apply scaling and positioning as desired.
Cheers
Eddie
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Witch software can i use to do split screen on video editing on a macbook

witch software can i use to do split screen on video editing on a macbook pro
please apple people without using the very expensive final cut

iMovie 11 has split screen. Enable the Advanced Tools in iMovie Preferences. Then drag one clip on top of the other and choose split screen.
Final Cut Express and Final Cut Pro will allow you to do this with a lot more control.

Using local/testing server with cs5 inserting images look fine in the split screen but do not show

Hi
If I open example: header.php and insert any photo jpeg/.html ecs i can see the images in the split screen but not in the browser if i save then refresh. I am able to make any change to the code ecs. and they are reflected just fine. I have tried this with my fireworks images .html and when that did not work i tried a strait jpeg off the desktop. This all did not work. I have deleted the local server then step by step created a new one via devnet instruction. This did not work! everything looks fine i even tried in 3 sep browsers with 0 luck....There is no remote server connected at this time because i am making a child theme for my current site. After all changes are done we will the ftp the word press files to site and change.
Ps i even started over from scratch with 0 positive affects....

After a lot of pain!!!!!!! the issue is fixed lol After 3 weeks I have overlooked the obvious !!! so the simple fix was the path of the image. Yes i feel stupid 10 years in lol....
Apparently dreamweaver cs 5 will not use the full path when inserting images into the page example: If you drag the image out of your assets folder or however you do it, DW will give you a path like this <img src="images/glass.jpg" width="800" height="729"> This is not the full path and when your pist!!! you cant see things like that ;( so the image path should look like this:
<img src="wp-content/themes/adszoom/images/glass.jpg" width="800" height="729">
also in the html files example of bad then good!

<img name="navigation" src="navigation.gif" width="1000" height="50" border="0" usemap="#m_navigation" alt="">
<map name="m_navigation">
<area shape="poly" coords="804,7,994,7,994,47,804,47,804,7" href="http://adszoom.com/699-2/" title="SEARCH BY CATEGORIES FOR CLASSIFIED ADS" alt="SEARCH BY CATEGORIES FOR CLASSIFIED ADS" >
<area shape="poly" coords="602,8,792,8,792,48,602,48,602,8" href="http://adszoom.com/wp-admin/edit.php/" title="VIEW OR EDIT YOUR CLASSIFIED ADS" alt="VIEW OR EDIT YOUR CLASSIFIED ADS" >
<area shape="poly" coords="405,8,595,8,595,48,405,48,405,8" href="http://adszoom.com/post-an-ad/" title="NEW CLASSIFIED AD POST" alt="NEW CLASSIFIED AD POST" >
<area shape="poly" coords="206,8,396,8,396,48,206,48,206,8" href="http://adszoom.com/help/" title="HELP WITH YOUR CLASSIFIED ADS" alt="HELP WITH YOUR CLASSIFIED ADS" >
<area shape="poly" coords="3,9,193,9,193,49,3,49,3,9" href="http://adszoom.com/" title="HOME VIEW CLASSIFIED ADS" alt="HOME VIEW CLASSIFIED ADS" >
</map>

</body>
NOW THE GOOD!

<img name="navigation" src="wp-content/themes/adszoom/images/navigation.gif" width="1000" height="50" border="0" usemap="#m_navigation" alt="">
<map name="m_navigation">
<area shape="poly" coords="804,7,994,7,994,47,804,47,804,7" href="http://adszoom.com/699-2/" title="SEARCH BY CATEGORIES FOR CLASSIFIED ADS" alt="SEARCH BY CATEGORIES FOR CLASSIFIED ADS" >
<area shape="poly" coords="602,8,792,8,792,48,602,48,602,8" href="http://adszoom.com/wp-admin/edit.php/" title="VIEW OR EDIT YOUR CLASSIFIED ADS" alt="VIEW OR EDIT YOUR CLASSIFIED ADS" >
<area shape="poly" coords="405,8,595,8,595,48,405,48,405,8" href="http://adszoom.com/post-an-ad/" title="NEW CLASSIFIED AD POST" alt="NEW CLASSIFIED AD POST" >
<area shape="poly" coords="206,8,396,8,396,48,206,48,206,8" href="http://adszoom.com/help/" title="HELP WITH YOUR CLASSIFIED ADS" alt="HELP WITH YOUR CLASSIFIED ADS" >
<area shape="poly" coords="3,9,193,9,193,49,3,49,3,9" href="http://adszoom.com/" title="HOME VIEW CLASSIFIED ADS" alt="HOME VIEW CLASSIFIED ADS" >
</map>

</body>
THIS LINE IS YOUR ISSUE
<img name="navigation" src="wp-content/themes/adszoom/images/navigation.gif" width="1000" height="50" border="0" usemap="#m_navigation" alt="">
Ok thanks and if there are any issues with dw please ask: [email protected]

Sync audio with two different video files to create split screen

I want to sync two different video files to a high quality audio file and create a split screen from there in Final Cut Pro X. Help please?

I'm following along at home, Tom, trying to make sense out of your instructions. (Editorially: This kind of operation is among the reasons I thoroughly loathe FCPX.) This would have been easy in FCP7. Perhaps it's actually the same amount of work (you are describing operations in FCPX I have not bothered to try yet—too scared) but it's far more direct the old way: Find sync points for all three files, stack them up in a timeline, nudge till precisely matched, apply effects.
But I'm glad you're here to help us through this stuff!

Split screen becoming unstable? (iMovie 11)

Hello. I am having a problem with a split screen movie that I don't understand. I have two film clips of me drumming that were recorded on two camcorders simultaneously. I have imported them into iMovie 11, and used the split screen function to create a movie with both camera angles showing. I have muted the audio files on the camcorder foootage, and imported an MP3 file of the drum track recorded using Logic Express. I managed to get all three of these synched together and it worked wonderfully well.
I then decided to add an additional film clip, and some titles, before the split screen movie. At first this seemed to work fine also. However, when I played the whole project back, I found that about 75% of the way through the split screen section, one of the split screen clips suddenly jumped and then seemed to repeat itself - so of course the split movie no longer was synched.
What is happening here? I noticed that as I gradually 'undid' things, I found a point where the split screen movie was 'fixed again'. It seems as if inserting a clip and audio before the split screen section is what caused the problem. Have I violated some fundemental law of making split screen movies ('Thou shalt not insert a clip in front of it?'). Visually, the inserted clip appeared to be entirely seperated from the split clip, and I could not see why it would be interfering with the split clip.
Many thanks.

I think it's a good thing you attempted to troubleshoot it, and got it working again. I'm thinking the problem is with iMovie being able to playback everything in the Preview window.
What I've seen from reading a lot of posts on this Discussion Group is iMovie can get overwhelmed with 'Effects' types of material add to the timeline. Not to say it can't handle them, but sometimes maybe certain combos really make it work harder than others. So this almost always shows up as an inability to do a live preview of the Project Timeline, but can sometimes be fixed by working backward to the point where the preview starts working again. There is no iMovie documentation or even third party books written that really lay out what is the upper limit of what you can do on the iMovie Timeline. So the only other thing to do is operate under the assumption that iMovie is working extra hard to play one of your bits of media while doing everything else on the timeline. So here's a file format, and frame dimensions best practice guideline to double-check.
1. For video, you can pre-convert clips to the Apple Intermedia Codec and the Large frame size (960x540) iMovie uses internally to playback and allow you to edit accurately down to the frame level (1/30th of a second). One conversion program often recommended for this is MPEG Streamclip which can convert to .mov formatted internally as Apple Intermediate Codec (AIC)
2. For audio, you can pre-convert sound to AIFF 16bit @ 48kHz, which is easier for iMovie to playback than a highly compress format, say like MP3 (which is adding to the workload of iMovie as it tries to do a live preview). You can convert in Logic or any other audio program you like. Side benefit to 16bit @ 48kHz is that's often the sound sample rate of the embedded audio in video shot on most consumer brand camcorders on the market. It will make it easier to match sync when sampe rates of sound clips = sample rate of video sound
3. Lastly one thing that might help workaround the limit of iMovie's Live Preview playback is to export that well synced up split screen/audio combo to a new video clip. Just go to Share Menu > Export Movie... (choose Large Size) and save it to the desktop. Re-import that finished clip, and drag it into a new Project, start adding all the clips you want in front of that clip and it won't go out of sync as it's a monolithic video clip now with the video/audio locked to one another.

Pnp & split screen help

I'm 99% finished with my project.
I now want to display split screen for both edited clips.
I noticed I get picture in picture on and off through out the clip like in the display screen (top right)
How did that happen? It happens when I have both clips enabled.
how do I get remove picture in picture and also activate split screen?

Probably to use the transform functions to crop and reposition the images. You'll probably need to to do one and then use the copy and paste attributes function to apply it to the other shots on that layer.

IPODS AND SPLIT SCREENS

I have Premiere Elements 4.0. Is there any way to be able to take music off Ipod's or CD's and put them on your computer in your project to edit with? We have tried, but are not having any luck. I know they need to me in MP3 form. Is there anything to do with MP4 forms to get them on the computer and usuable? Also, how do you create a split screen in projects? Thanks!
Kelly

You can "rip" the Audio from a CD and bring that into PE to use as an Asset.
If the Audio is already on a CD, then any ripping software can extract (rip) the files. I would work with PCM/WAV 44.1 KHz 16-bit files, and not MP3's, as there *can* be problems with the latter. PE will conform the 44.1 KHz material to 48 KHz 16-bit for you. This might take a second, when you Import the WAV file, so let it complete that operation. PE will generate a CFA and a PEK file for the Audio. The latter is the Waveform Display file. There will likely be a little blue progress bar at the lower-right edge of your GUI. The freeware Audio editor, Audacity, will do this for you. I happen to use Adobe Audition, as it offers much more power and control, but that would be overkill for most people's needs.
Now, if the music is on an iPod, you'll want to go into iTunes (the copy that is synced to that iPod) and create a Playlist containing the music that you want. You will then burn that Playlist to a CD from within iTunes. This will yield the files in CDA format on the CD and you'll follow the instructions above. Though the music is going from the iTunes compressed format to CDA and then is ripped to WAV, you will NOT restore the file to an uncompressed form, though the file you'll get will be uncompressed. Once iTunes has compressed the music file initially, the "damage" has been done. It will never be as good as the source file that Apple created their m4p file from.
If the music is just on an iPod and you do not have access to the synced iTunes program, there is a utility called iGadget, that will extract the music from the iPod. There is a free version, plus a paid version. I think that the main difference is that the free version does it one song at a time, where the paid version allows for multiple files to be off-loaded at once. I am not overly familiar with iGadget. You will sitll need a copy of iTunes to do the CD burning from a Playlist. IIRC, iTunes will allow up to 7 burns from a Playlist. With older versions of that program, one could create different Playlists to get around that 7 copy limit. I *think* that the newer versions plug that loophole, but am not sure.
If at all possible, I'd not use MP3 format. Some of those files work, but some do not. Embedded "Album Art" has been cited as a possible cause for the failure of some of the MP3's. Also, MP3 is heavily compressed. Going back to as close to the source, as is possible, will yield better Audio.
If I only have an MP3 file, I always convert to PCM/WAV 48KHz 16-bit, outside of my NLE program, i.e. PE, or PrPro. Again, I use Audition for this, but Audacity should work fine too. Remember, once compressed, you will never be able to fully restore the lost quality of the file. Just do not compress any more by going from an m4p to an MP3 format, as you will loose even more fidelity.
There was a good step-by-step for working with iTunes, in the FAQ's section. However, I do not think that those have been restored, since the forum redo. My steps above are basically an abstract of the info in the FAQ's.
Good luck,
Hunt

Dreamweaver CS5 crashes in split screen and other cases

EXTREMELY FRUSTRATING!!
It's affecting my productivity.
I'm running SP2 to Enterprise Vista
CS5 will open just fine. It will open a plain HTML file just fine. but then when I go to split screen and click on the design window I find that it hasn't completely painted the whole of the code into the design portion... in other words it has painted like half the page... and now that I've clicked on the design portion it will crash. The same will happen in reverse... if I'm already on the design window and click over to source it will crash.
I have checked my code thinking maybe there is something drastically wrong with the code that is confusing DW, but isn't that what DW is for?? to be able to edit code that doesn't work right as well as build pages and sites? I shouldn't have to go and check code in another editor. Regardless, the problem remained. (In the words of the great pessimist, Charlie Brown, "Good grief!")
Any ideas?! BTW, I had CS5 installed before and just had to recently re-image my HD. It worked fine before with the same information as above... the only difference being that my previous CS5 was an upgrade from CS4. My new install is a direct install into CS5.

Jocke27 wrote:
What do you mean with corrupt?
Why did you suggest that I created a new profile?
There are cache files and other system files that are created every time a user account is created. Sometimes these are corrupted in the OS and it really has no bearing on the specific application but it can lead to erratic behavior. Creating a new user recreates all these system files and thus it's almost like starting fresh. It's one step shy of re-installation of an OS. So because changing the user fixed the issue, then we have eliminated the fact that the application is causing the error and we know the OS is causing the error.
I can't just go in to that profile when I want to use?
I wouldn't recommend it. This can lead to more problems with the OS down the road with other applications and depending on where the corruption lies it can lead to issues with OS upgrades or even installing new software. The files that are typically most critical to users are stored in the Applications folder or the Documents/Sites/Pictures folders. You can easily drag them over to a new user account. If you have email being backed up for a product like Thunderbird you can also bring over many of the Library items as well.

Quicktime Pro - Split Screen Question??

The help section says that you can edit a video to have a "split screen" - meaning that I can import a video into an existing video, and have them playing side by side (or one on top of the other). I have been able to do a picture in picture (however not playing at the same time) - but can't seem to find the correct instructions!
I am trying to show two athletes running the same 40-yard dash - comparing them either side by side, or with one video on top of the other - at the same time.
Any help will be GREATLY appreciated! (iMovie cannot do this!)
Thanks!
Kim

This is how I do it using iMovie 6:
Organize the video clips and/or stills that you want to superimpose on to your main video clip, by having these in separate, individual iMovie projects (no matter how small). It helps if these are in the exact length/time you want later.
Now start with the clip in your iMovie project on to which you want to superimpose one of more smaller video clips or stills. Lets call it Main Clip. Export this (share) to Quicktime Pro in DV (full quality). make sure it has the same aspect as before (Quicktime tends to default to 4:3. If you want 16:9, read on).
In Quicktime, with this project open, select File ~ Open File. Select the iMovie file (in your movies folder) of the first clip/still you want superimposed. This will open in its own QT window. Select Edit ~ copy. If it is a movie clip then select all ~ copy (or you will only get one frame!). Switch back to the Main Clip window, and click in the scroll bar where you want the extra clip/still to appear. Choose Edit ~ Add to Movie.
You can repeat this as many times as you like, if you want to build a 'Video Wall', i.e. have several superimposed clips/stills on the same Main Clip.
Do not worry that the new clip overlaps or covers up the Main Clip, at this stage.
Choose Window ~ Show Movie Properties. The Properties Dialogue appears.
You will see a list of video (and audio) tracks. Track one will be the Main Clip, track 2 your new added (superimposed) clip. Click track 2, then click visual settings. From the Scaled Size pop-op menu, choose percent. Then type 50 into the first box. If Preserve Aspect Ratio is turned on you won't need to type 50 into the second box. You have made the pasted footage appear at one quarter its original size. The inset is now hugging the top-left corner of the Main Clip. If you want, you can type numbers into the Offset Boxes to shove it away from that corner (there are 72 pixels to the inch).
If your original Main Clip was required in 16:9, unclick (de-select) Preserve Aspect Ratio, and type in the relevant numbers in the two boxes, in Video Track 1.
PAL (for Europe):
Standard DV (4:3) 788 x 576
DV Widescreen (16:9) 1050 x 576
NTSC (for the USA):
Standard DV (4:3) 720 x 528
DV Widescreen (16:9) 874 x 480
This will not affect video track 2, but if that is also wanted in 16:9 repeat for that track.
You can superimpose, 3, 4, or more such 'overlaps' on the same clip, and spend a happy afternoon tapping away for each track in the Offset Boxes until you have got them all in the right place! You can even overlap them, if you can remember (or note down - hire a secretary to take notes) which track you want on top etc.
Save the completed QT file. Import the completed file into a new iMovie project. Import this into the original iMovie project, substituting the old clip you copied to QT as Main Clip for the new fancy clip you have made.
Have fun!

Split Screen. Is it possible?

Would love to be able to run multiple video streams at the same time. Other than picture in picture, which is very limiting, are there any other ways to have several movies playing at the same time within one picture. I got the feeling I know the answer. This would make editing so much fun, especially if you have two cameras.

Two cameras isn't a problem for imovie, but to do the split screen and other things you want to do I'd take a look at Final Cut Express.

Split screen videos?

everytime i try to watch a video in the quick time format, i get a split screen of the picture. in other words, i see two of the same halves of the picture, one next to the other. the audio is fine, but it even does this to music videos and podcasts downloaded from itunes. why is it doing this and how can i fix it?
here's a picture:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v439/Lome/Picture-1.jpg
Message was edited by: littlehobbit93

I have the same issue both for movies and music videos - why is there no response from Apple on this?

BADI for MIGO-populate batch numbers in Split screen

Hi All,
I have a requirement in which a user enters a Purchase order and then clicks on Distribute Quantity button.
Now another split screen opens up in which we enter the different quantities and their corresponding batch numbers.
I want that when user clicks on distribute qty button the screen shows some default values in Batch column.
These values should be picked from mchb depending on the material and largest batch no already generated for that material.
Suppose material1 has max batch number as :123, then I want to display in the split screen foll batch numbers:
124
125
126....so on
user can also change them if required.
I have gone through the foll BADI's:
MB_MIGO_BADI
MB_MIGO_ITEM_BADI but could not find a solution.
Please help.
Shilpa.

Hi Pranav,
I have tried the BADI..
It does trigger when we click on distribute quantity button.Thanks
But I want that user should enter the starting batch number for each material in that PO and then depending upon the number of rows in which qty is distributed, batch numbers should be incremented by 1 and displayed there.
For this I need an exit when we click on Check button in split quantity screen.
Thanks,
Shilpa
Edited by: Shilpa Bansal on Apr 9, 2010 11:47 AM

Copy from own disc to edit in FCPX

I've a created a disc containing 54 mins of HD material (BVMD video) which I wish to re-edit in FCPX but my lion OS 27" screen i7 iMac doesn't show it anywhere. Help!

Well - in the absence of any knowledgable type to answer my query for me I've solved the problem for myself but not necessarily for everyone unless they have another Mac like I have, the MacPro 1.1, 2006 model with FCP6.
I transcoded the contents using ClipWrap and saved to HD 2 then imported them to FCPX where I carried out the usual editing process. Solved.

Split screen edit in FCPX?

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