Seemless video loop with sound

[David Roth weiss]

An interesting fact is: people will easily put up with a glitch in the video when trying to make a perfect loop, but a glitch in the audio is simply too disturbing and it makes people jump, so it has to be perfect.

If you’re trying to do it for a the motion menu on a DVD you can forget it, its never perfectly clean unless you simply do a fade up on the head and fade out on the tail, with a few frames of silence where the transition happens.

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[Kevin Marley]

Thanks David,
took the fade up on head and fade out on tail approach for the audio.
Video isn’t so bad with the transition… appreciate your input =)

[David Bogie]

Say you’ve got a 30 second clip that you want to loop.
Slice it at 15 seconds, move the first part to the end. Butt the two clips together, put a 15 frame dissolve between them.
The clip will appear to run almost seamlessly across the blip from the end frame to the start frame. The dissolve in the middle helps hid the fact it’s a loop.
This is a fun exercise to find the best place to break the clip. I do this all the time for DVD menus.

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[Jeremy Hansen]

I realize this is an ancient thread, but perhaps it can help someone looking into the same topic.

One good way to make a perfect loop is to make a cut on a clip, duplicate it and set it next to itself and reverse the second clip. You will end up with a near perfect loop if the action allows for it to take place in reverse.