overlaying 2 video tracks in Premiere - help needed

sidders · 25th November 2005, 20:33

I have videod 2 parts of a conversation with the same person playing both parts. The pauses / voices match so it appears as a conversation - the timing is spot on. What I actually want to do is ovelay one over the other so you see both people. The video was done with a tripod so the background furniture etc is exactly the same.

Can this be done? I really need to do this tonight so any help woyld be really appreciated,
I've tried messing with the opacity of both tracks, bur the best I can get is both of them 'ghosts' on the screen, if i make one appear better, the other one fades.

I'm using premiere pro v7.0
thanks
sidders

theReal · 25th November 2005, 20:55

Put the second clip above the other, then you need a video effect called something like "trim and scale" from the effects folder called "transform(ation)"
Sorry, I have the german version of Premiere Pro, so I can't tell exactly if these are the correct names...

The filter allows you to trim video without scaling it, so if you trim the upper clip to 50% from the left, what you get is the left half of the screen filled with the lower video clip, the right half of the screen filled with the upper video clip. When there is no difference in the background then you don't see any border at all.

sidders · 25th November 2005, 21:14

you are a legend - thank you

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sidders Registered User Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 151	overlaying 2 video tracks in Premiere - help needed I have videod 2 parts of a conversation with the same person playing both parts. The pauses / voices match so it appears as a conversation - the timing is spot on. What I actually want to do is ovelay one over the other so you see both people. The video was done with a tripod so the background furniture etc is exactly the same. Can this be done? I really need to do this tonight so any help woyld be really appreciated, I've tried messing with the opacity of both tracks, bur the best I can get is both of them 'ghosts' on the screen, if i make one appear better, the other one fades. I'm using premiere pro v7.0 thanks sidders Last edited by sidders; 25th November 2005 at 20:52.

25th November 2005, 20:55	#2 \| Link
theReal Piper at theGates of Dawn Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Earth Posts: 2,139	Put the second clip above the other, then you need a video effect called something like "trim and scale" from the effects folder called "transform(ation)" Sorry, I have the german version of Premiere Pro, so I can't tell exactly if these are the correct names... The filter allows you to trim video without scaling it, so if you trim the upper clip to 50% from the left, what you get is the left half of the screen filled with the lower video clip, the right half of the screen filled with the upper video clip. When there is no difference in the background then you don't see any border at all. __________________ "Under a government which imprisons unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison" Henry David Thoreau, On the duty of civil disobedience, 1849

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25th November 2005, 21:14	#3 \| Link
sidders Registered User Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 151	you are a legend - thank you