Creative Split Screen Layouts

Split screen in the Video step now has a Creative column: a diagonal two-way split and slanted three-way bands, in addition to the standard rectangles.

What Changed

When you force a Split screen on a shot, the menu now shows two columns: Standard and Creative. Standard keeps the plain rectangle panels you already know. Creative adds a diagonal split for two panels and slanted bands for three panels. You can apply either style to any shot, whether it started as a single person or a multi-person scene.

Why It Matters

Rectangular split screens work, but they can look flat when every clip in your feed uses the same grid. A diagonal or slanted layout gives a shot more energy without changing what's actually being said. For social clips especially, that small visual shift can make a talking-head or reaction moment stand out in a scroll full of straight lines.

How It Works

Pick a shot in the Video step, open Layout, choose Split screen, then pick a panel style from Standard or Creative. Each panel, rectangular or diagonal, is dragged, zoomed, and re-timed exactly the same way. Say you're cutting a two-person podcast clip for vertical: instead of a straight vertical line down the middle, you apply the diagonal split, drag each host into their half, and the render follows the same angled shapes you see in the preview.

Who This Helps

Anyone turning long recordings into social clips: podcast editors, agencies cutting reaction or panel content, and marketers who want a feed that doesn't look like a grid of identical templates. It also helps on single-person recordings where you want a split-screen look for stylistic reasons, since Creative panels work on any shot, not just multi-speaker ones.

Good To Know

What you see in the preview is exactly what renders, so the diagonal or slanted shapes in your edit are the shapes in your final export. If a Creative layout doesn't work for a particular shot, right-click it and choose 'Reset selected clip' to put the framing back to fully automatic without touching your cuts, trim, or captions.

Try the new layouts in ScriptCut.