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Seamless loops with particles
I’m creating a starfield flythrough and need the clip to be seamless and looping. What’s the best way to approach this job and should I look at this from a different approach?
I can use a lot of files of photoshop generated stars and zoom through a set of starfields, then I can set them to exactly overlap and create my seamless transition. Is there another way? It’s pretty interesting to try to get the behaviour to be nice and even but I think that if I play with the speed and velocity controls enough it might look ok, its very tedious to do it this way though.
If I use the particle generator I think I will not get a seamless clip as I can’t cut the end into the start perfectly.
Thanks for any tips on how to approach this.
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Here what I did when I needed a seamless background loop:
put the stars / background in a fresh comp.
depending on what’s going on in the frame, go to 2 sec from the beginning of da comp.
This will be the first frame of the new background loop. We’ll refer to it as frame X
duplicate the background, move it to the end of your comp so that frame X is also the last.
Now animate opacity for top layer from 0 to 100%, 100% is frame X.define work area from frame X (bottom layer) to frame X (top layer)
render away – get a movie – loop it ad infinitum.sorry for the ayato style lame english, im under some nasty flu.
cheers
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Nothing wrong with the English but plenty wrong with my lame knowledge of AE so far.
Am I able to do that with the effect filter generated footage?
I’ll go and have a play now, thanks for the tip. -
Not to worry my friend.
After Effects is the first piece of software I use that caused my to talk to myself ALOUD alot,
trying to figure how to do stuff logically.as the saying goes there’s more than one way to skin a comp …
cheers
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