Premiere - Split Screen Tutorial

When looking at different effects and techniques I could use for Premiere I came across the following tutorial. This split a video clip into different sections to create a different look. The tutorial and link can be seen below:

 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEQ8xJ_Fon8 - Accessed 27/03/2014

So what did I actually do? I started by opening a video clip into Premiere. I had already sourced some clips for my DVD trailer so I simply used one of these. With this imported I then Marked In and Marked Out to create a smaller clip. I saved this to my sequence and then added it to the timeline. I duplicated this three times to create three different layers as such. I then selected the clip on V1 and used the Toggle Track Lock button to ensure I don't mess with the other two. I then used the effects panel and selected Transform, Crop. I dragged this on top of my clip. From there I was then able to use the Effects Control section to crop the clip to a given point. For this layer I kept the footage the same however for V2 I cropped this 37% from the left and V3 was cropped at 68% from the left. These can be seen in the below screenshots. 

 

The next stage of this tutorial was to add a transparent video. To do this I selected File, New and then Transparent Video. The dialog box below then appeared. 

These settings are all the same as those which I previously set when I first created the Project and hence I left these settings and simply clicked OK. This then created a new element in my project file. This can be seen below.

The tutorial then went on to create colour matte's. I created these along with the tutorial however I deleted these on my version. All this should become clearer towards the end. But to create the colour matte I went to File, New, Colour Matte. A colour matte is simply a clip which is a solid colour. It is often used to separate clips and to act as a background for text. The dialog box below then appeared:

 

 

As with the transparent Video settings I left all of these the same. After clicking OK I was then given the option to change the colour. I set this to white as stated in the tutorial. This can be seen below. 

 

With this complete I simply had to name my colour matte and then it appeared in my projects section, this can be seen below. I duplicated this for each video in my sequence (three).

 

These were then added to the beginning of each clip. The final stage was to copy the Crop settings from the video clip to the colour matte for each video layer. To do this I simply used the Copy and Paste technique.

You can see in the YouTube clip above what the end result should be however mine didn't look anywhere near as professional. I wasn't happy to just scrap all that I had done and hence I began to play around with the clips. I ended up rearranging them and then removing the colour mattes. My final piece can be seen below. This is not the same as what I had hoped however I really like it and I feel the mixed up scene is really effective. This is a technique I could look at using when I come to make my final trailer.