Adding Split-Screen

The Key to adding split screen to your video is by using Video Layers this is where two video clips are played at the same time but can be manipulated differently, to get the split screen effect first I added both of the clips to different layers and clipped them to the lengths that I wanted them to be.



With this done I selected the clip in video 2 which is the one I wanted to appear over the top of the first clip and then in the source window I clicked Effect Controls and then next to the motion option I clicked the little box (highlighted below) which allowed me to move the clip around the window to the position where I wanted it (also shown below)



With the clip in place I needed to trim the left edge so it wasn’t covering up the other clip, to do this I went into video effects and chose the crop option and then dragged and dropped in onto the clip in video 2 which allowed me to crop the left edge of the video out as to reveal the primary clip below it (shown below)



This therefore completed the split screening process, all I did next was add a transition to the start and end to make the entrance and exit of the clip less obtrusive.