From the course: Creating Cinemagraphs and Plotagraphs

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Duplicating and reversing a clip to make a loop in After Effects

Duplicating and reversing a clip to make a loop in After Effects

From the course: Creating Cinemagraphs and Plotagraphs

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Duplicating and reversing a clip to make a loop in After Effects

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- Let's explore one of our first looping techniques and that is to create a ping-pong effect where we duplicate a clip and then reverse it. In the footage folder here, one of our shots had a great overlook. I like the one here of them looking but clearly it doesn't create smooth motion. Let's drop that into a New Composition. You see we have our clip. A composition is simply a document within your project. We'll call this Overlook Loop. Now, looking at this, what I see, is that we've got our initial shot. But we're going to make this a little longer. So, using the Composition Settings, Composition, Composition Settings, I'll assign a new duration. Let's go with 12 seconds. 1200 for now and click OK. You'll notice if we open this up that we have more parts to the clip. What I want to do now is duplicate this and reverse it. So with the layer selected, I'll choose Edit, Duplicate. And I'll press 'o' to go to the outpoint. Now, with the right click, I'm going to bring up the column for…

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