Seemless video loop with sound
by Kevin Cyr
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Apr 2, 2008 at 2:33:55 am
Hi FCP users and fellow cowmunity!
I've been trying to make a perfect seemless loop with video and sounds.
No luck at all since there's always a hickup.
(video not so so, but sound is horrible)
Any tips and pointers or tutorials you guys could point me please?
Re: Seemless video loop with sound by David Roth Weiss on Apr 2, 2008 at 5:15:55 am
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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Re: Seemless video loop with sound by david bogie on Apr 2, 2008 at 8:52:31 pm
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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