4 SPLIT SCREEN Effects in Premiere Pro

Hello guys, Today I’m going to show you, How to make 4 split-screen effects inside the adobe premiere pro CC. And I’ll show you the easiest way to do these split-screen effects. Hope that you’ll enjoy these effects.

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When trends in video change you will often see lots of people and businesses using a similar style for a while. We have seen the whiteboard animation trend, the fast-paced abstract video trend, and of course that brief period everyone wanted to use star wipes. One style that has remained popular is the split-screen. Not only is this a super cool video effect, but you can create split screens in Adobe Premiere Pro — and it’s not as complicated as you may think.

 

Part 1: How to Create a Split Screen

When you create a split-screen, you are just dividing the screen space so that multiple clips are viewable at the same time. Most split screens will require some level of cropping, and you can learn all about using this crop effect here.

1.  Add all the clips you want to be shown on screen so that they are stacked in the sequence.
2. Trim the clips, so they are all the same length.
3. Turn off the top 3 tracks so you can only see the bottom one.
4. Go to the Effects panel and add the Crop effect.
5. Adjust the Crop, Position, and Scale of the clip until you are happy with how it looks.
6. Repeat these steps with each clip in the sequence. You may find you need to go back and adjust other clips so that everything fits the way you want.

Those are the basics of how you can manipulate your clips and arrange them into a split-screen format. You can use this technique and get inventive to create your composition, but it isn’t particularly exact. So, what if you want to be precise with your split screen?

 

Part 2: Vertical and Horizontal Splits

Being creative and arranging your clips in the freehand style described above can be fun. But occasionally you will need to be incredibly precise to ensure your clips are spread equally across the screen. For this, you might need to do some basic math.

1. Scaling to Fit

In the Effects panel, the size of any clip you add to your project is 100%. This means that the clip is taking up 100% of the screen. To create equally size clips, divide 100 by the number of clips you want to display. For example, if you designed a split-screen with four identically sized clips, you can set the Scale of each to 50%.

If you set the Scale to 25%, you can fit 16 equal clips into your sequence. A more technical approach can be beneficial if you want to create a video wall. Nothing distracts the eye quicker than one or two screens in a video wall that aren’t the same size.

1. Stack the clips you want to use.
2. Adjust the Scale of each by 50%.
3. Adjust the Position of each clip, changing the view to help you line them up.

2. Cropping to Fit

As with scale, the crop tool works based on percentages, but rather than affecting the whole clip, you can crop both vertically and horizontally. Here we are going to do a vertical split by dividing the screen into 3 parts:

1. Stack the clips you want to use.
2. Adjust the left Crop of each by 66.6%.
3. The cropping is now the right size, but the focal point of the clip is all wrong.
4. Select the Freeform tool next to the Crop settings, and drag the crop box around the screen until you are happy with the focal point.
5. Adjust the Position of each clip, changing the view to help you line them up.

3. How to Work out Cropping Percentage

The clip starts with a crop percent of 0 because there is no cropping at this stage. You can work out how much of your clip will remain visible by dividing 100 by the number of clips you want to display: 100 / 3 = 33.3.

Now you know that after cropping, each of the clips will display 33.3 of its original size. That leaves 66.6% of the clip that needs to be removed.

This formula works for any division of the screen.

Original Size	Number of Displayed Clips	Size of Remaining Clips	Crop by Percentage
100	2	50.00	50%
100	5	20.00	80%
100	8	12.50	88%
100	13	7.69	92%

If you want to create a horizontal split-screen, change the top or bottom crop settings.