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benha77is
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June 6, 2023
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8-hour animated video export HELP

  • June 6, 2023
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Hi, so I've used transform/motion effects on image files to make a logo spin and scrunch up, etc, and have made 40 minutes (4 different colored 10-minute sections) of original video. The "spinning logo video" is being used on a prominent TV inside a store to serve as a screensaver and be active, moving branding within the shop for people to passively enjoy. I've copy-pasted the 40 minutes of footage over and over to be 8 hours long because the store is open for 8 hours and we want it to play on the TV from open to close.

 

Anyways, any time that I try to export it as an 8-hour video, it fails and won't export in full. As a GIF (of the 40-minute version) it's like 9 GB and too big to open and the 1-2 times it has opened as a gif, the quality was skippy and kinda unusable export garbage. 

 

So I'm asking, what's the best format and/or fashion to export an animated image project of this size and length? If someone could help me out in any kind of in-depth way, I'd really appreciate it and love to work and collaborate with someone. Thanks!

 

've attached all (if not, then most) of the project files, as they're all just images + the prproj if anyone wants to hop in and take a look at what I'm working with. (I think it may be missing the background color slabs because i made those within the project but lmk)

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    Correct answer Richard van den Boogaard

    Like others have said here, why would you need to create a file for the full opening hours of the store?

     

    Most media players have an option to loop the content, without or hardly showing the seam at the end and start of the file. Especially if you use something like a fade to (end) and from (beginning) black in your sequence. But this is best discovered by testing it out in practice.

     

    As for the duration (and thus repetition of the animation), I would try to find out what the average length of a customer standing in front of the screen will be. This could be anywhere from 30 seconds to 5 minutes, but at least you don't have to create an 8 hour long file.

     

    Hope this helps.

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    Richard van den Boogaard
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    Richard van den BoogaardCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
    Community Expert
    June 24, 2023

    Like others have said here, why would you need to create a file for the full opening hours of the store?

     

    Most media players have an option to loop the content, without or hardly showing the seam at the end and start of the file. Especially if you use something like a fade to (end) and from (beginning) black in your sequence. But this is best discovered by testing it out in practice.

     

    As for the duration (and thus repetition of the animation), I would try to find out what the average length of a customer standing in front of the screen will be. This could be anywhere from 30 seconds to 5 minutes, but at least you don't have to create an 8 hour long file.

     

    Hope this helps.

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      RobShultzCommunity Expert
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      June 6, 2023

      You may want to put together what you need to loop and then find a video player with a loop option.

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