Windows freeware to make two videos seem like a single conversation?
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From: Linda Galdieri on 27 Dec 2009 06:28 What is good freeware to "splice" two videos simultaneously together? My high school kid wants to take two videos from his camera and combine half the screeen of each so that he is on the left side looking right while he is talking to himself on the right side looking left. I googled for "splicing video" but kept getting the video joiners. What Windows freeware do people use to combine two half video screens to a single screen? (Or what keywords do I use to look this frame joining together?)
From: Man-wai Chang to The Door (24000bps) on 27 Dec 2009 07:40 On 27-Dec-09 19:28, Linda Galdieri wrote: > What is good freeware to "splice" two videos simultaneously together? > > My high school kid wants to take two videos from his camera and combine > half the screeen of each so that he is on the left side looking right while > he is talking to himself on the right side looking left. > > I googled for "splicing video" but kept getting the video joiners. > > What Windows freeware do people use to combine two half video screens to a > single screen? Did you try cut-and-paste with Window$ Movie Maker? I knew 2 freeware movie editors: 1. VirtualDub 2. Xvidemux -- @~@ Might, Courage, Vision, SINCERITY. / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! May the Force and Farce be with you! /( _ )\ (x86_64 Ubuntu 9.10) Linux 2.6.32.2 ^ ^ 20:39:01 up 6 days 3:53 1 user load average: 1.01 1.02 1.00 不借貸! 不詐騙! 不援交! 不打交! 不打劫! 不自殺! 請考慮綜援 (CSSA): http://www.swd.gov.hk/tc/index/site_pubsvc/page_socsecu/sub_addressesa
From: Linda Galdieri on 27 Dec 2009 07:53 On Sun, 27 Dec 2009 20:40:30 +0800, Man-wai Chang to The Door (24000bps) wrote: > Did you try cut-and-paste with Window$ Movie Maker? > 1. VirtualDub > 2. Xvidemux When I looked it up, I found this Picture-in-Picture (PIP) tutorial for Windows Movie Maker: http://www.windowsmoviemakers.net/PapaJohn/Picture-in-Picture_Tutorial.aspx But what my son wants is to have half the screen on the left (from one video) and the other half on the right (from another video with the same background). I also had looked up VirtualDub, but the only way I can see to do what we need is the following (which seems too painstaking to be practical). http://www.jimmyr.com/blog/14_Virtualdub_Tutorials_260_2007.php Do you think this is practical in VirtualDub? 1) Record my kid on the left looking right against a white background 2) Record my kid on the right looking left against a white background 3) With VirtualDub, combine the two videos, end to end 4) With VirtualDub, painstakingly replace (one by one?) every other frame f the second video with every other frame of the first video I didn't know about Xvidemux so I will look that up to see if it can splice together in parallel two videos such that both videos play in parallel. But I was hoping there was specialized niche freeware to just splice two videos in parallel.
From: Linda Galdieri on 27 Dec 2009 08:03 On Sun, 27 Dec 2009 12:54:50 GMT, rich wrote: > The keywords are Picture-In-Picture often abbreviated to PIP Hi Rich, I had seen the PIP (and also "parallel" editing) when I was initially googling but the tutorials I found all seem to show a SMALL picture inside a larger picture each showing a different background (since they are generally used to depict parallel events). It seemed to me that picture in picture is NOT what I wanted (but maybe I'm wrong). If Picture-in-Picture (PIP) will work, then that's what I'll use but none of the tutorials show half pictures next to the other half pictures. Or am I confused?
From: Linda Galdieri on 27 Dec 2009 08:12
On Sun, 27 Dec 2009 12:54:50 GMT, rich wrote: > A few hints. > Work with .avi files for the sake of simplicity. I didn't know what format to make the video files so I'll use AVI as you recommend (as the actual format won't matter to us as long as we can convert it to a DVD in the final form). > You can't overlay the audio so add an audio track as a final operation. Oh. Oh. We didn't know that. Since what we want to edit is a conversation (left side to right side), I guess we can lip synch and then splice it together. We hadn't gotten that far yet as to figure out the audio! :( > An example. > You need a full size video with the subject on the right - right.avi > You need a half width video with the subject on the left - left.avi > You can do this with Avidemux - crop is one of the video filters > http://www.videohelp.com/tools/AviDemux I didn't think about a full-size video along with a half-size video. I was thinking of combining two full-size videos but with the frames "interleaved" so that every even frame was a right.avi person while every odd frame was a left.avi person, both against a neutral common background. Do you suggest the the half frame method over the interleaved full-frame method? |