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These transitions allow one to show two video clips
simultaneously in a single frame with variety of
split shapes such as Vertical split, Horizontal split, Diagonal split, etc...
DOWNLOAD:
rehansplit.exe
(34Kb) Freeware Package contains 24 pre-built
Split Video transitions.
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Installation instructions:
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Run the downloaded exe file and extract the xml file inside it.
It should ask you to specify the AddOnTFX folder with a default value of
"C:\Program Files\Movie Maker\Shared\AddOnTFX"
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Restart Movie Maker.
Usage:
To use this transition, place two clips on the Storyboard and apply one of
these transitions in the middle. Change to Timeline view and drag the right
hand clip towards left as far as possible without changing clip order. Details
of the Trick:
Split video effect is a name given to the the special effect achieved by showing two video
clips
simultaneously on the screen where a part of each clip is masked off in some
manner to show the remaining part of the other clip. This is different from
Picture in Picture effect in the sense that none of the clips change its
size.
In this package this effect is achieved by using the normal set of
transitions that come with Movie Maker otherwise called DxtJpeg/SMPTE wipes. The trick is to freeze these wipe transitions in
the middle using the undocumented Progress parameter.
For a normal transition (or effect), the Progress parameter is
internally changed from 0.0 to 1.0 specifying the current progress value of
the transition. But if we provide a specific value for this parameter via
the xml file this constant value is used for the entire duration of the transition,
effectively freezing the transition at that value.
For example consider the following two transitions which define the
Vertical and Horizontal split video effects by specifying the parameter
Progress to have the constant value of 0.5:
<TransitionDLL guid="{DE75D012-7A65-11D2-8CEA-00A0C9441E20}">
<Transition name="SPLIT: Vertical" iconid="41">
<Param name="MaskNum" value="1" />
<Param name="Progress" value="0.5" />
</Transition>
<Transition name="SPLIT: Horizontal" iconid="40">
<Param name="MaskNum" value="2" />
<Param name="Progress" value="0.5" />
</Transition>
</TransitionDLL>
Many more interesting split transitions can easily be made by studying
the parameters of the standard SMPTE wipe transitions, especially by using
the external mask image.
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