addressed 30 pane window creation ideas? (martindavisonsax)

[martindavisonsax]

Hi, 

I need to create 'mulitpane' videos for my online Band programs. Think the Brady Bunch, but 30 windows... 

It would be amazing if I could tell Videopad how many students I have & then have Videopad would divide the screen & populate the screen with the Video file videos... with the ability to swap videos from one square to another.

I do it now, but it's by 'eye'... it's not quick, easy or visually impressive!

Any help would be amazing.

Regards,

Martin

[borate]

Check out the tips in the 'sticky' post above - Efficiently build a stacked collage or virtual choir .

Swapping won't be easy.

[Nationalsolo]

Hi

Yes, Check out the possibilities.

For maximum simplicity VP can make at most a 5 x 5 grid  using the split screen effect but it would require you to use 25 tracks, one for each student. The upside here is that you would have full control of which person appears in which part of the grid and you can easily swap them about. The downside is that depending on your PC and the size of the clips, 25 tracks is a pretty hefty load for VP to run without any glitches. More students than this this and you would need to use the ideas set out in the stickies where the number of tracks is greatly reduced using exported sequences. Swapping, as Borate mentions would be pretty complicated.

As far as swapping the boxes around using the basic VP split screen setup, things would be much easier. The split screen is added to each of the 25 tracks and the clips assigned to their respective grid box. At some point in the timeline  when you want to swap some or all the boxes, split all the tracks. Reassign the positions for the right hand portion of each track. The left hand section will retain their original positions. Repeat the process further along the timeline to make another change and so on.

Nat