Hi there,

i'm new to the avid although I've done some editing before on FCP. Because of weird bureaucratic factors I am editing on a Mac running 10.2.6 with 1.25 G memory using Avid XPress 6.1.1.

I've looked through the avid help files and I've looked at the FAQ here (the link to the archive search is broken btw) and can't find how to do this thing that I'm trying to do.

I'm making a thing in Flash which requires two snippets of video to run one above the other. Currently I have them as separate flv files but there are some advantages to having them in the one flv of a non-standard aspect ratio. Talking it over with our gurus here the deal seems to be to arrange the two clips on top of each other and then export the sequence, then compress to flv using a separate program. I'd take out the extra black at that stage. So like this:

Would anyone know how to do this? If you could point me to a link or give a brief description I'd really appreciate it.

TIA, Neroli

Welcome to the forum nezwez, You'll have to use the picture in picture (PiP) effect from the effect palette (!), drop it on the first cut of V1, enter effect mode and adjust size and position, drag the effect icon from the effect mode window in a bin and call it PiP V1; do the same for V2 (call the effect icon PiP V2); now You can lasso select multiple clips at once on V1 and double click the effect icon called PiP V1 that will be applied to all the cuts in V1; do the same for V2. The help explains very clearly how to apply/modify/save effects, but please feel free to post here if You need additional info.

Hi Luca and thank you. That gives me a place to start which is a great help. Saves me trolling through a whole lot of irrelevant stuff. 

I'll let you know how I go :-)