Posted by RS on 08/04/06 15:13

RP wrote:
> 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.

So are you saying you want the items in the quadrants to change aspect
according to the media type? A PIP window should display media exactly
the same as it is displayed in a full window. You should also be able to
exert fine control over image/media properties in any PIP by using
Pan/Scan/Crop on that particular bit of media.

Unfamiliar with Premiere, but in Vegas, I set a separate track for each
PIP. There must be easily available Video Wall scripts for Premiere that
will save you some work, and likely allow you to make some interesting
modifications.


> 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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