 This video is part of a series chart. Check out the link in the playlist or link in the description for the full playlist And I recommend watching previous videos and this one's building on a little bit We're doing something similar what we did last week. That's what we did very simple crop to split the screen Didn't have very much Options now today we're gonna be looking at split the screen three ways rather than just in half And we're gonna be using Alphas and composites so that we can get some feathering effects and have a little more adjustment to it You can still you do the crop effect basically the same way here that we did last week But I want to show you this so you can see that feathering effect in case you need it in which a lot of cases you actually do I've already trimmed up my clips again Camera tripod you don't want to move it consisting lighting make sure your actors know where they're standing And they don't cross over the lines where you're going to be cropping the scene So I'll just click somewhere in the middle here. I've already lined up my clips So you don't have to waste time doing that but here's one shot of me Here is Here's another shot of me and here's another shot of me and we just have them all layered over top But now we want to be able to view them all at the same time So what I'm gonna do is I am going to add composites to each to the between the layers So I'm gonna click on the corner here. It adds a dissolve effect I'm gonna drag the dissolve effect all the way out and then up here I'm gonna choose it and change it to a composite rather than dissolve You'll notice that my drop-down menus are black and hard to read That's just a theme on my computer and Caden lives the only one that's showing it like that And I just haven't changed it. It probably won't look like that's huge. I don't know why okay and gonna Excuse me add another Dissolve effect by clicking the corner there making sure you have the dissolve effect selected and then changing that to a composite so what the composite does is basically allows you to resize layers and Be able to see what's behind them, but we're not gonna be using the composite settings here We're gonna be using alpha settings that the composite will use so now I'm gonna click my top video here so top video selected and up here type in alpha and There's a few options. We're gonna look at two of them today just to see You know the difference between the two we're gonna be using Gradients and shapes so first we're gonna look over gradients So I'm gonna make sure add that to this video clip and right where you can see that we're kind of can see the two But there's a fade over both of them. So what I want to do is Basically line it up so that the the gradients right between them and then adjust its position and its width It's very feathered now, which isn't very good for what we're doing. But right now. It's kind of angled So let's do the tilt and the tilts number you're gonna have to play around with it But I have found okay, so 500. I believe is just straight up and down if I do 250. I'm sorry that 500 is Horizontal cut and we want a vertical cut. So I'm gonna go to 50 But that's actually the reverse of what we want if I go to One set arts. I'm messing up today 750 and hit enter This is what we want for this particular cut But depending on what which way the videos are layered if I had one on top of the other You might go the other way, but just so you know if you want to cut it So that it's split vertically You're gonna probably set this to either 250 or 750 depending on the way your layers are layered and what order they're layered Right now. I'm gonna take where it says transition width, which is your feathering I'm gonna put that all the way down to zero And that's gonna give us a straight line It's gonna make me easier to see where I am splitting the screen now I can adjust the position and I can drag this bar like this I can also use my mouse wheel on the position bar here to get it very Exact and precise so right there for this looks good But you can still see the line because it's not feathered So now I'm gonna just start pushing the width up the transition width Until I think it looks good to where I don't see it because it's feathered But you don't want any feathering on either of your your actors shots So that's the top two layers mix now select the second layer and add in that same alpha gradient We're gonna do the same thing. I'm gonna tilt it 750 I'm gonna put transition width down to zero so I can see the line clearly. I'm going to adjust its position So it's between my two Actors or actor whatever it is and then I'm gonna adjust the width up just to feather it a little bit And that is it now. I have the three shots together and again more layers you have more Layering effects you have the slower is gonna go you may want to use proxy clips I'm gonna scrub through this though just to see make sure I don't have any of my actors You know crossing those lines and I might need to adjust them like If this guy was to stick out his hand I think I just stuck out my hand like right there if I stuck it out too far it might get feathered It may even be feathered, but I'm moving so fast. It's blurred anyway, so you won't really notice it So that's one way of doing it just using the gradient which is like a basically a straight line that you can angle different ways What I'm gonna do now is I'm gonna leave my composites, but I'm gonna remove those alpha effects and Now I'm gonna go back to my top video here I'm gonna do alpha shape and it's gonna be similar But instead of a straight line we have different shapes and you can see here We have rectangle ellipse and again the theme on my computers just doesn't look right, but Rectangle eclipse triangle and diamond. We're just gonna use a rectangle here, and I said eclipse. I meant ellipse Which is you know like a football? so Now I have a rectangle you can see that rectangle right there So what I want to do is I want to adjust the position of this So it's over this actor here, and then I can take my Y here and move that up so it meets the full screen height and Then I can take the X width and make it out like that and again if I want to I can take the transition with net gives us straight lines, it's a little easier to see and I can line it up between the two actors and so Now let's see move this wrong one. I'll move the X There we go right there And again if you can put the lines on something like a doorway line it makes it less noticeable But now that I have that there I can feather it out a little bit till I don't notice it and now I have those two actors So basically the same thing as before except for instead of a straight line cut in the screen We're working with different shapes in this case a rectangle and main reason I'm showing you this is One I actually like it better this you know the tilting on the other one was kind of weird where with this if I Don't need to tilt it. I can just adjust the X and Y to where I need and And so let's see position this here on him scale the Y up Now put my transition width down and I'm going to make the X scale up a little bit And then I'll feather it out and we have the same basically the same effect before but again Using different shapes. This can be useful if you don't want to split completely up and down Or horizontally or vertically, maybe you just need to to do one little section of the screen You can do it with a rectangle or an ellipse or what other shapes were there a triangle or diamond I don't see though using those too much For this particular type of effect But there's that's it now I can again scrub through this Looks good to me. I will Render that out and put it at the end of this video Again, that's just one more way and there's lots of ways to split the screen like this But I just thought I'd show you this the other way, you know using the crop It's very simple draw a line and you're done, but you don't have that feathering effect Which can definitely Smooth things out a little bit. So I'm going to render this out. I might even adjust my feathering right here a little bit Because you can still see it it's not very noticeable because again because of the doorway But I think that would be this top one here. Let's see Yeah, feather it out a little bit more And again make sure my actuals don't Cross over doesn't look like they do. Oh wait, let's see my hand in that shot, right? Where was that? No, I'm good So I'm gonna put this rendered at the end of this tutorial. I hope you enjoy this tutorial Be sure to check out my website films by chris.com. That's chris the K There should be a link in the description there You can search through all my videos from both my channels If you liked this video if you like my videos in general think about becoming a supporter over at patreon.com Ford slash metal x 1000 little as a dollar a month is very helpful link to that in the description If you can't help that way think about liking sharing subscribing and commenting as always I hope that you have a great day