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How to display different videos next to each other simultaneously on imovie?

Hi


For a school project i need to display 6 different videos in a grid who play simultaneously their content and merge these 6 videos in 1 video(with the 6 videos in it)

Anyone that knows how to do this? Or maybe not in iMovie but somewhere else?

Think of it like a zoom call with different videos in every square, exported into 1 video.

Thanks!

iMac 21.5″, macOS 10.15

Posted on May 25, 2021 11:28 AM

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Posted on May 25, 2021 12:14 PM

Yes, a video grid, like a Zoom display, can be done. It takes a little fiddling.


Put a background of any color in the timeline. Overlay your first video onto the background using the Picture in Picture feature of iMovie. Adjust its size and position as you want. Then share it out as a movie file to your desktop. Import it back into the project. Delete the previous clips from the project. Overlay with Picuture in Picture your next video onto the the previously overlaid clip. Share out to file on your desktop. Import back in. Repeat the process until all six of your videos are overlaid. All of the overlaid clips will play simultaneously.


In the screen shot below, I overlayed six videos onto a blue background, exporting after each overlay procedure and importing back in to add the next video.


-- Rich




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May 25, 2021 12:14 PM in response to deconincktoon

Yes, a video grid, like a Zoom display, can be done. It takes a little fiddling.


Put a background of any color in the timeline. Overlay your first video onto the background using the Picture in Picture feature of iMovie. Adjust its size and position as you want. Then share it out as a movie file to your desktop. Import it back into the project. Delete the previous clips from the project. Overlay with Picuture in Picture your next video onto the the previously overlaid clip. Share out to file on your desktop. Import back in. Repeat the process until all six of your videos are overlaid. All of the overlaid clips will play simultaneously.


In the screen shot below, I overlayed six videos onto a blue background, exporting after each overlay procedure and importing back in to add the next video.


-- Rich




How to display different videos next to each other simultaneously on imovie?

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