Tutorial : cheater loops
A motion graphics clip is said to loop when there is seamless
motion between the clips if they are played side by side
in the timeline. Looping clips are useful because you can
have infinite, smooth motion to use as a background for titles
or for those moments when you just want to space out on something.
The majority of our clips loop, so you can use them as a
background no matter how long your video segment lasts. There
are also a number of our clips that do not officially loop
but come pretty close when you apply what we call the cheater
loop to them. The cheater loop is accomplished by simply
placing a cross dissolve transition between two instances
of the same shinyDV video clip. Below is a list of clips
that work well as cheater loops and how long to make the
cross dissolve between them.
| video name |
cross dissolve |
video name |
cross dissolve |
| buegid |
1 second |
pimento |
2 seconds
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| flying fractals |
15 frames |
Julia |
15 frames |
| pastel kaleida |
1 second |
tie dye |
1 second |
| tie dye2 |
1 second |
blue glow |
1 second |
| blue squishy |
2 seconds |
clouds of neptune |
2 seconds |
| electric spicule |
1 second |
fire spiral |
1 second |
| homer hair |
2 seconds |
synapse |
1 second |
| neo smolder |
1 second |
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For more information follow along on the tutorial below
and you will be cheating yourself into perpetual motion in
no time at all!
Open your iMovie project and
import your shinyDV background
that you want to loop. For our example we chose
Synapse.
After importing drag the clip to the timeline.
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Make sure that your clip in
the timeline is selected, click on it if it is not
(the clip is a blue color if it is selected)
Add another
instance of this clip to the timeline by by copying
it and pasting it after the first clip in the timeline.
Go to the menu and select Edit>Copy (if you want
to impress the ladies use the key combo command-C).
Immediately after copying the clip go back to the
menu and select Edit>Paste
(or command-V). This will place another copy of the
Synapse clip after the first one that you placed
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