Re: [REQ] Script for batch looping comps

Hi there!

I would like to offer up a solution that is a little different than your method. It seems that if you have a 3 minute comp and you want something that is 30 sec to loop through the length of the comp that you are duplicating, moving back in time one sec from the end of the first clip and then doing a dissolve to get the loop. Then you are duplicating again until you fill your comp. Is that correct?

You might try creating a comp that is length of your looping clip minus 1 sec, go to the end of the timeline and split your clip. There should be one sec of clip left over. Take that one second and snap it to the beginning of the timeline and do the opacity transition from 100 to 0.

You also might need to stretch the end of the bottom clip out a little past the end of the composition.

Then take this precomp into your final comp and turn on TimeRemap for the precomp. Next, set your time marker to the last keyframe and back up one frame.

Create a new keyframe here and delete the last keyframe. Then set an expression for TimeRemap and enter this: loopOut("cycle", 0) and stretch your layers out point to the end of the comp.

This will repeat your loop precomp until the comp is done! A very important point is to set the frame rate of your looping comp to 30 fps so there is no issue with the loop point

This technique works even better if you create your loop in a way that there are no dissolves.

Confession: I don't know anything about Scripting yet so I have to resort to expressions. I hope this helps in the meantime!

Trent

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