@vidasonik said:

Hi All just a very simple question. I loop movies a lot and sometimes there is a sudden jump between the end and start. Is there a way to introduce a crossfade so the end and start flow into each other less obtrusively?

This is a known limitation of the Movie Player on both MacOS and Windows. Mainly, the looping provided by the operating system (AVFoundation on macOS and Windows Media Foundation on Windows) always has this little pause at the loop point.

We are working on a solution for this for a future release (Windows is almost done; still have to deal with macOS). The main thing is to get away from MP4/H264 if that's the codec for your movie, because that's probably going to be the worst in terms of the glitch.

There are two possible solutions.

1) If you're on macOS, I would suggest JPEG (using the old QuickTime Player 7 if you can still run it) because that's probably the fastest. Otherwise, Apple Pro Res or HAP. On Windows, the best solution would be HAP.

2) Loop the movies yourself in an editing program and use those instead. If you want absolutely seamless loops, that's the only solution for now.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Best Wishes,
Mark

yes i did 🙂

Hey again,

I've finally had some time to look into this again. Things are starting to make sense with all your advice, but there is one hanging question that's in a way of everything - at least I think so.

Let's simplify stuff and focus only on the sample video with 500 Hz sound in the background (https://drive.google.com/open?...). When I drop it into Isadora and play it in a loop, what I hear is not only 500 Hz sound. At the end of each loop there is a delay/click. Is that only on my system, or is that a general behavior? If general, is there a way around it? Can it be codec-dependent, system-speed dependent, or what actually causes the 'click'?

Just to explain my reasoning - I realized that the deal-breaker now is the sound quality. In the examples above I just grabbed a guitar and played random chords to test things out in Isadora. For the show that I'm working on, the music will be recorded by musicians, and the click/delay in the loops is something I will have to deal with. It has to sound just right. I have an idea how to workaround the click using the Envelope Generator actor, but it's quite a convoluted solution that I'd like to avoid. I'd much rather find out why is there a click/delay between the loop in the first place.

Cheers,

Martin

@nickdesigner84 said:

virtual stages - I was wondering what they could be used for...

 You can use them like this to group a bunch of overlapping content and then easily manipulate its location and scaling as a whole. (I used a Virtual Stage for all the shapes that make up the penguin's head.)

Penguin.izz

@dillthekraut I wanted to have the movie loop at the position it is playing at a particular moment. the patch repeat2.izz I posted above archieves that, I guess now there are two solutions for the same problem.