Pinnacle Studio, Edition including Avid Xpress and LiquidPost all your Pinnacle Studio or Edition problems, queries and tips. Incorporating Avid Xpress and Avid Liquid.
If you want two of yourself on the same screen, film yourself twice as the two separate clones, with the camera on a tripod, and then put one on overlay, and crop it, so that both bits of video are visible at the same time.
I've also found it useful to find some sort of physical line in the location you are shooting, and stay behind that line so a stray arm or elbow doesn't cross it. It just makes the joining of the two parts easier in post production.
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