Posted by RP on 08/03/06 18:20

Martin Heffels wrote:
> This would be much easier to do with a PIP. Normally you would resize to
> 25%, and line-up the videos, but if you make them smaller, say 24%, and put
> a black clip on the lowest video-track, you automatically got your black
> bars. Move the videos a bit and/or resize to have the bar-size you want.

Ahh, a PIP. Well, the various quadrants vary in size because they are
partly videos but also partly images being animated with keyframes and
have to be cropped etc to size. I wish it was just videos because that
would make them all the same size but becaues of the variability I want
the black bars surrounding all four of them to constrain the size, so I
planned to have the black as the highest level video track (e.g., video
track 5).

If I read you correctly, you're suggesting I use a PIP function and
place a Black Video segment behind it. That would work for perfectly
sized quadrants, but my situation isn't as neat. I wish the matte
function worked because that is exactly what I need. But I can't get it
to work reliably.

Thanks for the reply! I'll look at the PIP function and see if that
helps what I'm trying to achieve.

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