Practising split screen on final cut

Today Lauren and I learnt how to create a split screen, which is used in many music videos including Beyonce's 'Countdown' which we have taken a lot of our inspiration from. Before we tried to replicate a similar effect in our final music video, we though i would be a good idea to practice using both the software and editing techniques. This was a good idea as we had little idea how to create and will now have more experience when doing it in our music video 'What Now'.

We first had to film the shot against a green screen and then upload it to Final Cut. We then applied the 'keyer' effect which allowed us to add a coloured background on top of the green screen. 

Once we had applied the background to our green screen, we had to 'crop' and then 'transform' our clip. This 

effectively allowed us to crop the clip and easily move in round the screen.

We then had to repeat this step, twice with different background colours applied to our green screen and positioning the cropped clips in different places and export this in .mp4 format. This then allowed us to reinsert in to Final Cut so we could merge the clips together, so it gives the 'split' screen effect. 

We then had to import the edited clips on top of one another to create the effect that the screen had been split several times, and then added music to make it more interesting to watch on our blog.