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Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 09:29:58 -0800
Subject: Re: [AE] looping player
From: Enrique Gamez <enrique0210@sbcglobal.net>
To: After Effects Mail List <AE-List@media-motion.tv>
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Thread-Topic: [AE] looping player
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That's a work-around and may be acceptable in this case, but it's
disconcerting that you couldn't loop smoothly w/one of the other
suggestions. :(
-e

From:  Jim Curtis <jpcurtis@me.com>
Reply-To:  After Effects Mail List <AE-List@media-motion.tv>
Date:  Tuesday, January 15, 2013 9:25 AM
To:  After Effects Mail List <AE-List@media-motion.tv>
Subject:  Re: [AE] looping player

Hey gang, this turned out to be the best solution (I tried all your
suggestions): I made the loop 1 minute long (6 iterations), with an even
number of frames at 30 FPS.  My H264 still appears to repeat a frame or
stutter at the loop point, but you'd have to be really focused on it to spot
it.

Thanks for all your valuable input.

Jim Curtis


On Jan 15, 2013, at 9:25 AM, Walter Soyka wrote:

> In my experience, players are more likely to hiccup when they loop (seek) than
> when they are playing. To reduce the chance of seeing this hiccup, you deliver
> a longer stringout of back-to-back 10s loops. This was necessary in the olden
> days of DVD (to accommodate the drive's seek time), but it may still be a
> reasonable method today (depending on your player).
> 
> Since you have an odd number of frames, you could also implement Rick's
> interesting suggestion of matching your number of frames to the compression
> cadence by adding to a stringout, instead of going back to the drawing board.
> 
> Walter Soyka
> 


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