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Looping footage
Hey I was wondering if someone has a technique to looping stock footage.
Such as Fire as it’s fairly speratic I was wondering how you would go about looping the footage so it looked seamless?
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You can loop a footage item with the Interpret Footage dialogue in the Project Panel.
If it’s stock footage, though, it probably won’t loop seamlessly. You can try setting your in point for the layer in the middle somewhere, duplicate the layer and position the duplicate down in the timeline, dragging out the layer handle back to the original in point, then cross dissolve the end of the top layer to the beginning of the lower one. Then set the end point of the bottom layer to be one frame before the in point of the top layer.
Now render this out, re-import it, and set it to loop as many times as you want.Joey Foreman
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Split it in the middle.
Move the two layers so that the split is at the beginning and end and crossfade the middle bits together.– The Great Szalam
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Thanks Michael,
That sounds like a great idea. Would you just split the one line of footage or just dupicate the footage layer and cut it?
If you’re just split one layer of footage, how would you go about doing that?
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Don’t mind me. Just maundering in the corner.
Joey Foreman
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Sorry Joey your idea is very good too. I think I had a go at it earlier but didn’t get the detial I wanted.
Although you explained it with more detail. So I will try that too.
🙂
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Ctrl+Shift+D (CMD+Shift+D on a Mac – I think) will split your footage which is the same as duplicating it and then cutting it at the ends. It’s a faster way to do the same thing.
Also, Joey said basically the same thing I did. I just took a while to get around to the tab your question was on and Joey had submitted his answer before I got around to submitting mine 🙂
– The Great Szalam
(The ‘Great’ stands for ‘Not So Great, in fact, Extremely Humble’)No trees were harmed in the creation of this message, but several thousand electrons were mildly inconvenienced.
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Alright so this going to sound incredibly stupid but given i don’t use After Fx I thought I’d ask.
How do you crossfade?
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What’s the expression for looping?
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You add opacity keyframes — one at 100%, then another some time later at 0%.
Since you’re new to After Effects, I’d recommend the following link, in which Adobe’s Todd Kopriva pulls together some important introductory materials:
https://blogs.adobe.com/toddkopriva/2010/01/getting-started-with-after-eff.html
Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
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[Ashish Varghese] “What’s the expression for looping?”
loopOut();Possible parameters are cycle, pingpong, offset, and continue.
See the official documentation here [link], or see Todd Kopriva’s blog post loopOut and loopIn expression methods [link] (An infomographic is worth a gazillion words) for a visual example.
Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
RenderBreak Blog – What I’m thinking when my workstation’s thinking
Creative Cow Forum Host: Live & Stage Events
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