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  how do i create an endless loop

  Posted by Lovin’ It on May 19, 2006 at 12:19 pm

  how do i create an endless loop in ae 6.5?

  i have a 10 second comp. In the comp an e rotates 360 degrees. i render the comp and take it into powerpoint with an endless loop setting. the comp rotates with a nice fluid motion until it gets to the end of the file.

  any solutions?

  thanks

  Steve Roberts replied 20 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Steve Roberts

  May 19, 2006 at 12:35 pm

  If, for example, frame 0 is the same as frame 100, the last frame of your render should be 99.

  Playback: 0,1,2,…,98,99,0,1,2, …

  Otherwise you’d be showing 98,99,100,0,1,2 … and since 100 and 0 would be identical, you’d see the same frame twice, and therefore a blip.

  So set the last frame of your render to the frame before the start of the next loop, whatever that frame is. Test with a RAM preview set to loop.

  Does that help?

  (Consider though, that Powerpoint may not loop footage seamlessly. There may be a pause no matter how you set up the loop.)

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