Looping video

[Eduard Wolfson]

Hello everybody,
My name is Eduard Wolfson, I'm new to the VS10+. I've monitoring(sicretly reading )this board about 2 month and I 've found is very educational and have a lot of usefull information. THANK YOU for sharing information with all of us, espesially those tutorials, very usefull!!!
After my short:) introduction I will try to put all my courage together and ask question: How I can make looping video in VS10?

Mr. Steave, maybe time for new tutorial?
Thank you in advance for help.
Eduard

[Ron P.]

Hi Eduard, welcome to the forums,

The looping is done by the software playing the video back. For example you can load a video into Windows Movie Player, and select the Loop icon. The video will continually loop.

How are you planning on using the Looping video, on a website? If so then you might consider creating an animated GIF, or SWF (flash file). These programs can make your animation loop, however long you would like it to.

For DVD, looping clips are used in the menus. The DVD authoring software tells it to replay after "x"_time has passed, generally around 20-30 seconds. The burn module of VS10+ does have motion menus, and will play a video background that loops.

[Eduard Wolfson]

Thank you Vidoman for your respond.
Actualy I want to use looping video in DVD, but not in a menu.
I don't have a problem to create motion background or looping video backgroung in menu. I'll try to explane my idea. Just for example,
chapter 1 of my video I want to make looping, when chapter 1 finish playing I want star chapter 1 to start playing again without going back to menu and play until I will stop DVD player or change chapter.
Again, thank you for your respond.

[sjj1805]

If this is a one off project you might wish to download the 30 day trial of DVD workshop 2.

What you then do using Workshop 2 is to create a menu and to make one of the buttons an auto-activate button. the effect of auto-activate is that you specify that if no buttons are pressed, then after 'x' seconds (which you specify) the program pretends you have just activated your chosen button.

I once created a video for playback in a local pub that was running a charity event. They wanted the video to simply play endlessly and was to advertise things like the raffle, fun run, fancy dress competition and so on.

Here I used a simple blank menu with one button.
DVD Workshop allows you to hide your buttons and so in addition to making it an auto-activate button, I also made it hidden.
Using a fade out to black at the end of the video, and a fade in from black at the start made it all appear quite natural.

[Eduard Wolfson]

Thank you Steve,
Very nice information and very good solution to my project. Yes, you're absolutelly correct, this is one time project. However in my project, menu must work and be active. As I understood this is a JUST looping video with hidden menu, but my project required "real" menu+several chapters and every chapter must be looping .
Sounds like I've got myself in troubles ?
Again, thank you Steve, I always reading yours and others posts on this board with a great interest and I'm gaining alot of knowledge, thank you for your contibution and time.

[Eduard Wolfson]

Gentlemen, I think I have a solution. Two menu (one hidden as Steve suggested and one "real")I will try and will let you know if it work or not

[GeorgeW]

DVD Workshop lets you define buttons on a menu, and then modify the button's playlist to add a LOOP (Loop Start and Loop End points -- anything within the playlist start/end points will loop -- during the looping video, if you hit the menu button on the remote control, it will go back to the menu so you can select a different button to loop a different playlist).

Regards,
George

[Eduard Wolfson]

Thank you George W! I will download DVD Workshop as Steve suggested and will finish my project.
Thank you everybody for helping me with my project.