Beste way to make this kind of "multiple Crop" in Premiere? (video link)

[elKapone]

Hey guys!

I'm new to the forum (it's my first post) and actually i'm new to video editing to!

I recently started to try and edit a music video for my band, but since the footage isn't all that great, i thought of spicing it up with something like the video i'm linking bellow (but diferent).

In this video (example at 0:17), the director uses 3 times the same part of the image, but what i want to do is gradually show portions of the image that is going to fill the screen

The only way that i found of doing this is with "crop". but for every "square" i want to show i have to make a copy of the clip... and this seems do be "power consuming" for my computer, not to mention unpractical.

So, is there a better way of doing it?




P.S - Pardon my english, it's not my main language.

[Midnight Blue]

Look on YouTube for tutorials for "Picture in Picture in Premiere" Then do it multiple times

Something like this

[elKapone]

That's how i do it, but that means that if i have to do 7 ot 8 "squares" of images, than i need 7 or 8 copys of the video... isn't there a simpler way of doing it?

[Midnight Blue]

No.

[elKapone]

well, my computer isn't the most adequate machine for video edit, but it's ok. I have an Imac dual core with 4gigs of ram... i will invest in more Ram and a firewire disk as soon as i can...

Anyway, i just thought that there could be a plugin for this tipe of thing... because i'm not going for that BD stile of thing, i am trying to make graphical compositions with the videos, and more shapes (other than just rectangules) would be great!...

Maybe i can make an animation in AE whith opaque forms and then use that animations as a mask...you think it would work??