Split Screens in DaVinci Resolve Made Easy (Beginner Tutorial)

Hi, welcome back. In this video, we're going to be having a look at split screens, or as it's also known in Da Vinci Resolve, the collage effect. If you're unsure of what split screen actually is, it's where the screen literally is split into a number of a different areas. Each of those areas showing a different video clip. The split screen effect has actually been used in Hollywood since the 1920s, but more recently in the 60s and 70s, it was very popular. It's been used in uh some of the classic films such as The Boston Strangler with Tony Curtis or The Thomas Crown Affair with Steve McQueen and even more recently the TV series 24 where I think a split screen effect was actually incorporated into every single episode. Splitc screen is a massively underrated effect. It lets the audience see events happening at the same time in different places like two characters reacting to the same moment or parallel story lines unfolding together. It enables the movie maker to show conversations more dynamically. For instance, phone calls, video calls, uh, or characters talking while apart become more engaging when you can see both sides at once instead of having to cut back and forth. Split screens uh, can deliver more information in less time. Instead of having four sequences running one after the other, you could actually show all four sequences at the same time. And split screens have a bold graphic look. Directors use it to give a scene momentum, rhythm, or a distinctive aesthetic, and it can be used to guide audience's focus intentionally by controlling what appears in each section. Filmmakers can subtly direct attention or create irony or reveal information one character doesn't have. It's a real clever effect if used for a specific reason. So now we have an idea of what split screens actually are. Let's have a look at how we can reproduce that effect ourselves. There are two common methods of creating split screens within Da Vinci Resolve. The first method is what I call the freehand method and the other is using the collage effect that's built in to Da Vinci Resolve even the free version. So we'll first take a look at the freehand method. And I've opened uh Da Vinci Resolve to the edit page. And I've got three video clips in my pool. And what I'm going to do, I'm going to drag these over one at a time onto the timeline.