How to display lower order videos on top of higher videos?

[madhug44192861]

how to display lower order videos on top of higher order videos (with scale reduced to say 50%).Pip works only in the order in which videos are displayed in the timeline.(ie higher order videos can be displayed on top of lower order videos with reduced scale)

[Jim_Simon]

I don't know what a "lower order" video is.  That's not a common editing term.  Can you clarify?

[madhug44192861]

videos in the lower track!

[Nexahs1138]

Set to screen or overlay.

[madhug44192861]

that will create a combination of both, i want just the lower track video on top(not blending)

[Jim_Simon]

Premiere Pro looks down.  Clips on higher tracks will obscure clips on lower tracks.  That's just how NLEs work.  You'll need to accommodate that.

[madhug44192861]

In FCP there is an effect called blend in which you can select blend mode as behind which will serve the purpose. Does adobe premiere pro have anything like that?

[Jim_Simon]

Under Opacity you can select the Blend Mode.

[madhug44192861]

I know that but there are no modes that satisfy my condition!

[Jim_Simon]

In that case, you may have to move over to a proper effects program.  Adobe makes After Effects.  Blackmagic Design makes a free program called Fusion.  Both have pretty steep learning curves, though.

[Ann Bens]

Premiere has the same blending modes as FCPx.

[madhug44192861]

blend mode behind is absent

[Jim_Simon]

You would need to apply the Blend Mode to the top clips, not the ones underneath.

NLE's see the media from the top down.