Multiple videos in one frame

[M_D]

First of all thanks to everyone who writes the guides, maintains the site/forums and to everyone who makes and uploads videos, what a community to be a part of!!!

Anyway.... I wasn't too sure how to word the topic title, but that was my best effort...

Basically, I want a number (16 was the first guess as the effect should play over 16 notes) of clips placed into a single frame, so they appear as minature videos. Kind of like a tv wall effect. The clips have to come in 1 by 1 and play different clips.... Then they all need to change to the same clip, again using the tv wall analogy, they'd be displaying small parts of the same, larger clip.

Then the whole frame transitions to the clip that was playing, as in the frame borders fade out to reveal the whole image.... I've seen aspects of this done before in different vids, but not all together... I could do it with a lot of effort and some logical planning but was wondering if anyone could suggest a "better" or fast method... software wont be a problem as I have the editting suite from uni at my disposal...

Any and all suggestions most welcome (infact i need them all, PLEASE!!! )

Thanks in advance

Matt

[M_D]

Found an example

kevid Caldwell's Battle Athletes "Believe"
http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members ... .php?v=218

about 1:36:00

Matt

[Zarxrax]

Fairly trivial effect, depends on what software you are using though. If you are using Premiere you can do this with either the motion settings or the transform filter.

[Vlad G Pohnert]

It all depends on how much controll you want over plaement of each "video" window... Premiere will get the job done but if you plan to have any kind of motion, it's motion control kind of sucks.. After Effects if way better but you've got to know what your are doing... I wouldn;t do it any other way except with AE.

Probably for now I would suggest to say stick with Premiere and resize each video and position it where you want using the motion control as stated earlier... If you want a border to seperate the video sgements that is easily made in premiere and the overlayed onto the video segments.. Then you can fade that layer as you bring in the complete image to simulate each video becoming one...

Vlad