Watching 2 video tracks simultaneously

Working on a video using FCP 3.02 on G4 with 10.5.6 OSX. Would like to be able to view video track 1 in the viewer and video track 2 in the canvas at the same time. Any ideas? Thanks!

You can view both in the canvas, just not full size. Go into the motion tab and make the size of each, say 60%. Then move one into the top left corner and one into the lower right.
You might also read up on the Gang Playhead Sync option to see if this is similar to what you want. I've never used it, but it is in the manual.

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