In this video, we're going to look at split screen effects now, they're a bit old fashioned, but
there's some of my favorite effect and you can still see them done in music videos today.
And that of you as old as me, you might even remember them from the 1980s and the 1990s, really popular
in starting credits to TV shows and films.
Now, doing a split screen is actually quite easy because all you're doing is overlaying three clips
on top of an original clip.
So here we've got our slow motion wave, which kind of just goes on and on here.
And then what we've done is we've.
Right clicked and added a new video track three times.
So we've got the one, two, three as our brand new video tracks and V4, which was our original video
track.
And then what we do is we just place our videos, the bottom one being slightly longer than the next
one, and that one slightly longer than the one on top.
So the effect you get as it plays is that you get one clip on top of another clip on top.
So the effect we get is basically one videoclip will turn up on top and next to it will be another one.
And then lastly, the final third will be kind of taken care of there.
So how do we do this?
Let's go through it really quickly.
My original clip is just this slow motion wave, so let's bring that back over here.
So if I was to play, it's just going to play like that now for my three overlay clips.
I've already marked the Internet.
Now, if you don't know what I'm talking about with ins and outs and adding video tracks and things
like that, it's really important that you go back and watch BASIX one and basically two of my Lightworkers
series with that kind of get you up to speed with what I'm doing.
So.
My three clips, which are my leaves, my cherry blossoms and my clouds, I have already marked the
ins and outs.
I'm going to pick up the leaves and I'm just going to place it somewhere on the time line there.
I'm going to pick up the cherry blossoms and I'm going to put them there.
And then the clouds, I'm going to put them there, you can see that I've marked the ins and outs quite
well.
I already see that there's a bit of a mistake with the cherry blossoms.
It's a little bit shorter than it should be.
So what I'm going to do, first of all, is just disable all tracks like that.
I'm going to move it to roughly where it should be.
It should be there.
Or so I'm just going to make it slightly longer just by pulling the end of them.
And let's bring back our video tracks like this.
So what we've got is the same effect as before, but with one big difference.
You can see now that my clips, rather than being one third of the screen like they were here, they're
actually taking up the whole screen.
That's because I haven't actually done anything to them yet.
So let's move directly to the VFX.
You can see our clips are already there.
They kind of lined up exactly the way they should be.
And let's add.
Our DVD, what we're going to do is we're just going to add a DVD to each one, which is a 2D, we were
going to put that on the leaves, dancing one.
And what we're going to do is we're going to cut the right hand side.
We need to cut 66 percent off the right hand side.
Let's go to the crop.
Let's go to the right.
And you can see I'm already cutting it way easier if I just type in sixty six point sixty six like so.
And that's basically cut off the right hand side over there.
I'm going to now move the play had forward to the cherry blossoms that, of course, taking the whole
screen.
I'm going to add a two divi to that.
And what I'm going to do is cut off 33 percent from this side and 33 percent from this side.
In other words, I'm cutting both the left and the right off, so I'm going to go thirty three point
three, three on the left hand side and thirty three point thirty three on the right hand side.
Therefore, I've only got the middle third left.
And lastly, let's put a DVD.
On the clouds.
And I'm going to crop that on the left, I'm going to crop it sixty six point six percent and what you've
got is a perfect one third, one third, one third kind of situation going on here.
So really quickly, we've created.
The same effect that we had before, which is basically the pictures kind of come in and take up their
space on the screen.
Now, it might be worth noting, those of you who have not done multiple video tracks, when you put
DVD on multiple video tracks, they turn up here as tabs just so that you don't get confused with what
you're looking at.
If the play head is only on the original channel or the VFX disappear as soon as you move it onto anything
with the VFX, it appears here.
When we move it to the next one, you will see that we have to inventory and obviously they correspond
to V to victory over here.
So if you're looking for your VFX and you can't see them here, that means you play head is somewhere
else and the VFX isn't actually there yet.
That's I know that confuses a lot of people.
So if we now go back to our edit, we've actually just recreated the effect that we had at the start,
which is a really cool effect.
Let's just bring that back.
So all we've done is recreate this starting again over here.
So I would like to take this to the next level and animate the entrances of those leaves, the cherry
blossoms and the cloud, which is going to make the effect so much better.
So let's get on with that one.
So what we're going to do, let's go back to our VFX.
Let's make sure that we're on the correct one.
We're on the correct one.
And what I need to do now is not only is the crop going to be there, I'm also going to animate the
position.
Now, we've covered animation before in one of our videos, but we're going to go into a lot more detail
right now.
So what we're going to do is the following using arrow keys were just going to move the play hit until
we get to the first frame, which is that one there.
We're going to get to the first frame and we are going to move.
How leaves just out of the screen just so that they're disappeared there?
So that's one point five one, I'm going to remember that what I'm going to do is click on the clock,
which starts the keyframes.
Now, some of you will have noticed that as soon as I click the clock, I got a little diamond appearing
in the KeyFrames panel over here.
This is going to be very important.
And with my arrow keys, I'm just going to move it.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight frames forward.
And what I'm going to do is add a new key frame here.
And position my clip all the way down to zero point five, which means it's in its original position.
So one really annoying thing that you're going to notice now, just disabled those two, is that when
it comes in, it immediately bounces and tries to go back from where it started.
It's one of those really frustrating things about Lightworkers.
Easy way to fix this is simply to forward your clip all the way to the end like so.
And move your clip back to where it was and you'll notice that it now stays exactly where it should
be.
It's as I said, it's one of those really annoying things about light works, which you really can't
do anything about.
I'll take a slightly different approach with video, too.
As you can now see, this animation is going to come in like so.
And we're going to put a similar animation for clip number two, which is the cherry blossoms.
So we're going to do exactly as we did before, which is we're going to position them off the screen.
Like, so we're going to.
Go to the first frame of that animation there.
Remember to double check which video track you're looking at in this case, I'm on V2, so I must be
there.
Let's take it look, first frame, I'm going to click on the.
Keyframe of the clock symbol there to get a keyframe, I'm going to say one, two, three, four, five,
six, seven, eight, again, eight frames you might be able to see.
My laptop's lagging a bit here.
This is actually quite hard for most computers to do.
I'm going to click on the key frame again.
Like, so I'm going to position my clip at zero point five, precisely so that it's exactly where I
want it to be, and this time around, I'm going to show you a slightly different way of doing it,
which is going to the graphs.
So if we go to the graphs, you can see that for my video clip.
It starts all the way up at one point, five drops down to zero point five, which is where we are right
now.
And then for the rest of the clip, it actually tries to go back to where it came from, which is.
One point five, now, that's not what we want.
So what we can do is just manually.
Pick up.
And drag that down to zero point five somewhere around there.
Let's say let's just move that clip forward and see that we manage to get it.
So let's have a look.
Yeah, that's pretty good, and let's do the last one, which is, again, we're going to go to the
V one like so so let's make sure we're on VH1 and VH1 DVD.
We're going to go to the first frame again like so.
The one we're going to.
Move our clip of the screen.
Just there, we're going to click the clock, making sure that first grade starts, lets forward it
by eight frames one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
Just let my computer catch up with itself.
It's good going to add another keyframe.
We're going to bring it back down to zero point five, like so go to my Graff's.
And just drag.
That down there, until it's level like so if we have a look at this animation now, let's see how it
looks.
I think you'll agree that looks pretty good and can kind of add a really nice touch to a video you're
making, so I'm just going to show you a comparison of the two.
Go back to our edit, you can see zoom out, you can see that we've got two approaches there to a split
screen kind of effect, the first one.
Make the screen bigger, the first one you'll see.
Has a really nice touch.
It kind of is just a panel to pair.
And that's a pretty nice effect, second one, we've kind of added that touch with the animation.
Which is also really nice now, of course, you can have them animating back out.
That's a whole different thing.
And if you want to animate it back out, I would recommend that you do it using the graph and not the
keyframes themselves.
So if we were to just animate them out, so if they were coming in like so, I would animate V3 first.
So what I would do is add a keyframe here.
Like, so one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, and notice I'm counting, it kind
of keeps your animations the same length, which means it looks a little bit more professional when
you do it.
I'm going to add another keyframe there.
This time around, I'm going to go directly to the grass, which you can see what I need to do now.
I need to.
I need to take this and pull it up to one point five and also that one as well, two one point five.
So what that should do now?
For disabled V two and V one, you'll see that the animation brings it in.
And then at a certain moment brings it out and it's a really, really cool effect if you get it right.
So if I was to do that quickly for all the other ones, I'd come in like this.
That would go somewhere around here in V2, I would do the same thing.
Stephanie Keyframe.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven and eight.
Wait for my laptop to catch up with itself.
Out of keyframe in.
Go to my graphs and again, deal with this with the graphs and not.
By moving stuff around because it's so much easier, so I'm just going to move that there.
Let's just do a quick test on our first two panels.
That's quite nice listed last one, just to make sure that it looks kind of cool.
So let's see where the panels are going up.
Netjes, I'm doing this all by.
I might be nicer if you did it by timing or by frames because it would look a little bit more professional.
So let's have a look at what goes up there.
So let's have that one going up in V1 at a keyframe.
Let's go one to three.
Four, five, six, seven, eight, like, sir.
Well, at our keyframe.
And again, we'll just jump straight to the graph and do it by hand like so and move the last animation
as well.
So if we go back to our edit.
We have an animation that really looks quite cool.
You see, my timing's off there, but I think you get the right idea, so it's a really cool way of
bringing kind of something cool and new to a picture in picture.
So rather than a standard picture in picture, you can do a split screen.
But even if you want to do picture in picture, I hope that you can see that using a few key frames
and animating some stuff can really add a bit of zip and a bit of pizzazz to your videos.