[Dave Wright]

Whats a good software or app to edit multi audio, and then video tracks onto the same screen, split screen. Like Jacob Collier for example?
Is there a decent app or software for windows?
Thanks Dave

 

[bandmommy]

PM Bill Mecca. He might be able to help in that area.

 

[jman1977]

I use Final Cut, but think you would need a workaround to be able to use it on Windows.

 

[kreacher]

I use OpenShot. It's free, lots of neat features and you can do basically everything. (Follow some youtube videos on how to use it for split screen)

In pro paying software, most people I know use Adobe Premier

 

[Katffli]

PC or mac? I will recommend this video editor mac anyway. It has a version for PC and an online version as well. So check it out. You can get a free version as well, it supports multiscreen. I hope this will help you pall.

 

[adjustotone]

OBS is free and lets you combine multiple video/audio streams, picture in picture or variatons. It also works live. Not too hard to use.

 

[ZootTheSim]

Not sure about your specific use case, but Davinci Resolve is generally an excellent, free, open-source, pro video editor with good audio support.

Edit: The free version's full-featured at least, if not fully professional.

 

[noelpaz]

OBS --- you can also use it for live Youtube and FB videos. Now if you want to get fancy you may need a paid program. I have Movie Studio for Windows but life is much easier with Final Cut Pro. My son's setup is a cheese grater Mac workstation with some graphic cards to speed up everything and tons of memory. That thing is fast when it comes to rendering the final product. My 16GB MacBook is a snail by comparison.

 

[J-Moen]

For split screen, I use Davinci Resolve like Zoot mentions, but I paid for the full version to enable all the effects and capabilities. Be aware, lots of processing power and RAM will be needed to handle 8+ 4k resolution videos on the same screen. Thats about where my computer gives out, and it's got some good high end specifications.

OBS Studio is what I use to stream live for YT. Previously, I used Shotcut, which is great for as it is completely free with all features available. I did find it stuttered and skipped a lot with more than 6 videos though, which is why I upgraded to Davinci.

 

[mmichel]

I use Corel VideoStudio, which is a full-featured, hardware-accelerated video editor (like Final Cut Pro or Adobe Premiere), but relatively inexpensive (only $100 or so). It's also got plenty of great templates for automatically doing multi-window mosaics.

Previously, I used Shotcut, but I found that really painful to use for anything beyond really simple editing. I really wanted to like it (I'm a big supporter of Open Source/GNU software) but I found it basically unusable.

 

[mmichel]

Be aware, lots of processing power and RAM will be needed to handle 8+ 4k resolution videos on the same screen. Thats about where my computer gives out, and it's got some good high end specifications.

I'm trying to work this out. It seems that unless you have a >16k screen to display these on, it's mostly wasted processing anyway. Can't you just downsample the videos before combining them?

 

[J-Moen]

I'm trying to work this out. It seems that unless you have a >16k screen to display these on, it's mostly wasted processing anyway. Can't you just downsample the videos before combining them?

Haha, no not definitely not displaying a 2x2 of 4k res videos in 16k, but i'd love 16k monitor if that is even readibly available.

The reasoning for me is image quality. The image just looks so much better if you keep video captures at 4k, but scale things down in the render timeline, rather than using lower quality captures or normal downsampling measures (VLC). You're right though, I could use the software to render down all of the 4k video and get the better quality I like from when I render in Davinci. I would definitely do this if I used more than 8 4k videos, as my computer couldn't handle the load. But with 4-6 like I usually use, keeping all the videos at 4k until the final render works for me usually and saves time not having to downsample each video clip. However, sometimes effects or other things will bog it down .

Additionally Davinci does a great job with keeping things smooth. Pre-render portions of the timeline and an option to use quarter/half resolution during playback for the timeline.

EDIT: I have been wondering if I may prefer 1440p at 60fps over 2160p at 30fps though. I think I may give it a try. (EDIT 2: NVM My camera only captures 1080 at 60fps )

 

[Zasterz]

The free version of DaVinci Resolve is not missing too much from the Pro version. In fact I only upgraded cause I needed one specific effect one time that was only in the Pro version.

 

[J-Moen]

The free version of DaVinci Resolve is not missing too much from the Pro version. In fact I only upgraded cause I needed one specific effect one time that was only in the Pro version.

Main thing for me was rendering. I upgraded in order to render with GPU rather than CPU, the effects were a nice bonus though.