📄️ How to Create Video Mosaic
Introduction
📄️ Understanding Video Mosaic
Overview Split screens videos has managed to gather a lot of attention lately as it involves a great technique to show cause-and-effect or illustrate in what ways one thing is relevant to another. VIDIZMO is now enabling you to create your own customized content by combining multiple tracks and stitch them together as one through using Video Mosaic tool. Multi screen content not only makes your content more engaging but one can also customize it according to their business needs. You can convey any useful information to the target audience in a better way by combining relevant videos taken from different angles, time and locations.Video Mosaic tool is designed in a way that it enables any non technical end user to utilize its capabilities with utmost ease.ConceptMosaic tool constitutes of multiple functionalities enriching your Video Mosaic and providing you ease and an exceptional experience while editing. The architecture of this tool is simple and self explanatory. Our collapsible left hand side pane contains options that will let you perform changes on your selected track. Whereas, our right hand side pane let you add and delete tracks anytime. Additionally, you can restore any of your unsaved mosaic session any time which will not let you lose any of your edited content. Mosaic can be created of as many videos as you want; however, we don’t prefer to add more than 8 videos as browser can end up behaving unexpectedly. Attributes of Mosaic ToolTimeline Every added media appears in timeline by default. Here by dragging and placing the sequence towards the desired timestamp will let you determine the duration as well as the starting point of each track. Timeline can be zoomed in up to frames for better precision. The final duration of published mosaic will be according to the longest added track and its position on timeline. Auto Tile Auto tiling arranges the players on canvas in a pre defined layout. After adding your desired media you can choose to auto tile them. This saves you from getting into the hassle of manually arranging them and placing them in a well balanced or proportioned manner. You can always resize the players after auto tiling them and can adjust them according to your desire. Auto tiling can be done at any point of editing.Resize players Customized layout of mosaic could be defined by switching positions and changing size of player by dragging its corners. Players can be resized at any point of editing. Any player that is pushed out of canvas will not be a part of final mosaic. After resizing the player according to your desire you can lock your player so that you will not end up moving it mistakenly. Lock player After adjusting the size and position of the player the option to Lock player can be utilized so that you will not end up changing it mistakenly. Locked player can not be moved or resized. However, player can be unlocked any time after locking it. Note Bring Forward The player will moved one step forward. Send BackwardThe player will be moved one step backward.Bring to FrontThe player will be moved to the front regardless of the current position. Send to BackThe player will be send to the back regardless of the current position. Player Snap To provide you ease while moving the players on canvas snapping takes place which automatically snaps your player to the edges of canvas and with other players present on the canvas after you drag it to a certain percentage. This is no specific option present to handle this functionality as this is already enabled. Audio Switch & Adjustment To provide you total control over the audio of created mosaic we let the user to switch by muting and playing audio of different tracks at different timestamps. Multiple audios can be played at the same time. You can also adjust the volume by increasing or decreasing it at your desired timestamp for every track. Additionally, you can also add a separate audio track in mosaic, It will not be a part of canvas but its audio can be used. Undo & Redo While editing your mosaic you might be making mistakes or will not end up liking the effect you created. To cater this necessity the option to undo your change is present on the timeline. You can always redo your undo changes as well. Undo takes place up to the first performed action in Mosaic studio. Ctrl + Z can be pressed as a shortcut to undo and Ctrl+ Y to redo. Publishing Video Mosaic After editing when you choose to publish your mosaic we provide the user control over certain aspects of published mosaic which are described below Renditions will be created according to the configurations of your encoding profile.Contribution were made by Perwasha Khan & Maheen Warsi.Read Next <a href="../Studio%20Space%20Video%20Interactivity/Understanding%20Video%20Interactivity%20using%20Studio%20Space.md