From the course: Motion Graphics for Video Editors: Creating Backgrounds
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Looping the background
From the course: Motion Graphics for Video Editors: Creating Backgrounds
Looping the background
A loop is a loop is a loop. And the good news with a loop is that's seamless. With backgrounds, you don't want a distracting jump as the background repeats. But you may not want the over head of having to build out a four minute animation. If you create a loop that's ten, 15, maybe 30 seconds long, you can create a gentle pattern that, if needed, can be repeated. Maybe you only need ten seconds of it for the lower third and 15 seconds for the bump in. But when you decide to use that looping background for the closing credits that run for a full two minutes, well you've got what you need. Let's explore a simple technique, building on the theme of if you can't solve it, dissolve it. With my layers built here, I'll pull out that stacked composition, and that's going to serve as the basis. Pressing the Return key, I'll call this Source. Now what I'd like to do is drop that into a new composition. So, I'll pull it in. You'll see now that I have a single footage layer. Essentially, we've…
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