I wanted to experiment with the editing software Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 to see how our Split Screen effect would look. For the Main Task Kayleigh will be editing but i wanted to understand the process and learn to use the software.
The Process
I took both clips filmed on the left and right and layered them together. I then added a video effect, transform, crop. You crop the left video 50% and the same for the right. When played together as a layered video the images appear to be together.
Problems
The subject in the video has to be to the very far side of either the left or right or you risk chopping part of the main focus off. Also There was a problem when both videos were split that meant they froze as you will see in the video. This will need to be resolved for our final version as it takes away the effect that we wanted to create. The process is quite difficult but with practice it would become easier to create Split Screen videos.
