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Margaret Artola/3 min read

Creating a Split Screen Effect in Premiere Pro

Split Screen Build

1

Stack Two Clips

Two clips on adjacent video tracks.

2

Add Crop Effect

Effect > Transform > Crop on top clip.

3

Crop to Half

Crop right or left side to 50%.

4

Position Both Clips

Optional: scale and position for non-50/50 splits.

Master Premiere Pro at Noble Desktop

Noble Desktop's Video Editing & Motion Graphics Certificate teaches Premiere Pro alongside After Effects.

In this video, you will create two different methods of Split Screens in Premiere Pro. One method makes each side of the split-screen show all the clip, while the other method crops the image.

Summary

This Video Tutorial Demonstrates How to Use the Split Screen in Premiere Pro. It Shows You How to Double-click on a Clip and Adjust the Size, As Well As How to Make One Clip Fill the Screen. You Will Also See How to Add Transitions and Adjust the Timing of These Transitions.

Video Transcription

This is Margaret with Noble Desktop. Today We Will Be Learning How to Use the Split Screen in Premiere Pro. the Footage I'm Using Can Be Found Beneath This Video.

I'm Going to Double-click on This Clip Here, Then Go to My Effects Control Panel. I'm Simply Going to Make This Smaller and Scoot It over to the Side. I'm Going to Say 50 so I Know It's Right.

I Want Another View of These Fighters Right Here, so Let's Find It. Here Are Some Other Clips of the Fighters. Maybe This One, I'll Just Go with This One. This Doesn't Have Any Audio to It, I Can See That the Audio is Shadowed Out but Video Only. I'm Going to Drag the Video on Top. I'm Going to Click on This Top One, Go Back to the Effects Control and Make This Smaller, Then I'm Going to Scoot This Over. I'll Also Say 50 Here, Just Five Oh so That I Know It's the Exact Same Size. Now, This Has a Nice Way of Aligning This for Me, Perfect.

Now Here is a Standard Split Screen. If I Decide That I Actually Like This Left Clip to Become Full Screen Eventually, As You May See This Sometimes, so You're Like Right There Like This, This Clip on the Left Side of the Screen to Get Larger and Fill the Screen. I Am Going to Say Position and Scale, and Then by the Time It Gets Here I'd Like It to Fill the Screen. Remember This is an Action so It's Starting, It's Going to Start Filling the Screen Here, and Stop There.

I Clicked on the Keyframe for Both Position and Scale, Because I'm Going to Change the Scale and the Position of This in Order for It to Fill the Screen. so Maybe I'm Going to First Put It in the Center a Little Bit and Then I Will Increase the Scale. so Let's See How That Looks. Approaching the Keyframe It's Going to Start Getting Larger, Cover the Other Clip, Fill the Screen.

Now over Here, It's a Little Unattractive so Perhaps I'd Like the Lower Clip or Rather the Right Side Clip to Fade Out a Little Bit Before It Disappears. so I'm Going to Pull in the Bottom Clip and Let's Just Look at That for a Second. It Just Pops Off, I Don't Want It to Pop Off, I Want It to Fade Out. so I'm Going to Click at the Edge of It and Say Command D, Maybe I Want That Cross Dissolve to Be Longer. the Timing for All of Your Transitions is to the Second. I'm Going to Double-click on It, the Numbers and Choose the First Two Numbers or the Last Two Are Frames, Seconds, Minutes, Hours. so This is One Second If I Click on It and Just Write 200, That's Two Seconds, Zero Frames. You Might Notice How Much Larger This Got.

I Hope You Enjoyed This Lesson on How to Make Split Screens in Premiere Pro. This Has Been Margaret with Noble Desktop.