side by side video

[amor]

I've got two video footage of a teacher doing a taichi form from the front and back and I'd like to put them together in one video to observe the form from both sides. What I want to achieve is similar to the following clip of yang and chen done side by side here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HRaAIdkqiY

I'm no multimedia guru (think its called interlacing, no?)but does anyone know a very simple and easy way to put two video clips together starting from a specific time in both videos, an application that would just merge both clips from a time point you specify and output one single video ?

[origami_itto]

Depends on your OS.

Windows movie maker is free and runs on Windows.

Final cut would be your Mac choice, I think.

Linux has openshot and a ton of other options none are that great

Open broadcaster Software is worth a mention. its not an editor per se but you can Combine Sources Easily

[Trip]

I've got two video footage of a teacher doing a taichi form from the front and back and I'd like to put them together... What I want to achieve is similar to the following clip of yang and chen done side by side here:



I'm no multimedia guru (think its called interlacing, no?)but does anyone know a very simple and easy way to put two video clips together ...

In super general video terms.
This video's frame is 1280 x 720
That means:
Frame width is 1280 pixels (long).
Frame' height is 720 pixels (high).

in order to put 2 videos side by side in a 1280 x 720 frame they made sure to size each video at 640 x 360
640 x 360 is half of 1280 x 720.
so two 640 x 360 videos side by side in the same frame 1280 x 720 frame will both be fully shown.



If you decide to this, here's a couple of hints.

Resize your video for each half of the frame.

Say you want the end video to be 1280 x 720 (basic Youtube size).

And one of the videos you have is 720 x 480.
You’d re-size that video to 640 x 360.

Say your other video is 320 x 180.
You’d also re-size that video to 640 x 360.

You’d put them both in a frame of 1280 x 720.
One video on the left side of the frame; and the other video on the right side of the frame.

Also--You may run into timing differences between the 2 videos.
In order to sync them
One or both videos may need to be slowed down or speed up.


For each stage there are good short (2-6 mins) Tutorials on YouTube for each stage.

...
You could do what you want with a 2 track editor like Movie Maker free. But you'd end up doing more work.

A better tool/editing program is one that can edit multiple tracks.
like 4 tracks as opposed to only 2 tracks.

Because video takes up 1 track
And audio take up 1 track.
That's 2 tracks per video.

So side by side video is at least 4 tracks.
If you were to add text or a logo or whatever, that would be another track.
Total 5 tracks.

If you wanted to add voice over that would be another track.
Now you’re at 6 tracks.

You could easily figure out how to that with a 2 track editor.
But it would take more time and more work.
You'd save time using a multi-track video editor.

Multi-Track editor suggestions:
Final Draft
Adobe Premiere for mac.

Vegas Movie Maker (or Vegas Pro)
Adobe Premiere for PC.



Anyway...all general.
Hope it helps.



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[GrahamB]

I don't think you need to worry about resizing - most video editors should do that for you. Here's how you'd do it in iMovie on a Mac, for instance:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1my6rH1kc0

[Trip]

iMovie for FTW.

[amor]

Thanks all for the comments and suggestions. I'll probably end up using moviemaker as its free, no mac here and I haven't used linux in a while it would take a bit of time to install and set it up. I'll look into those other two applications as well Trip but I don't want to do anything complicated like slowing down frames or adding or removing anything.
The form I have is from the left side and somebody else has the right side but I did my recording about a minute later so I would just need to split-screen the two videos when I started my own recording. Windows moviemaker should definitely be able to cope with this, I dare say.