Can Premiere create a Quicktime movie that loops?

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October 10, 2012
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I have some Quicktime movies (.mov) that I made in Director. I want them to loop by default, but there's no setting for this in Director that I can find. (Not getting any answers on the Director forum...)

I know I can set Quicktime Player to loop movies continuously but I want the loop built in.

I'm a total novice at Premiere but I have access to use it at work. Can I change an already-made non-looping Quicktime movie to a looping Quicktime movie using Premiere CS4? How? Or some other way (freeware)?

Thanks for helping!

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maestrojed

Participant

As far as I know, there is no way to export a video file from Premiere that will loop on all players. It is very much a player setting.

However!

Hmm... Guess I'll need to pursue the long answer. I've seen a looping Quicktime movie so I know it's possible but know nothing more...

You can open the video in Quicktime. Go to View->Loop. This will make the video loop. If you now save the video from Quicktime Player. Quicktime Player will now know/remember that you want the video to loop. This is how you have "seen a looping quicktime move" before. This is unlikely to work in other players.

maestrojed

KJerryK

Legend

Premiere can export animated gifs that loop. But aside from that, no. If that is something you think would be useful, deposit a feature request here Adobe - Feature Request/Bug Report Form

In the meantime, there is a very simple way to make any video play in a loop. Just use an app such as MakeInstantPlayer to turn your mov, avi, mpg or whatever into a video executable. Then it will look just like an animated gif, without degrading the quality or reducing the frame size.

John T Smith

Community Expert

I have never done this, but I think Encore will allow you to create a movie DVD where the final action of the timeline is to go back to the beginning of the timeline (I think this would be done by creating a DVD with no menu, just a timeline set as 1st play for auto start)

But... ask in the Encore forum to be sure

Guy AndotteAuthor

Participant

John T Smith wrote:
I have never done this, but I think Encore will allow you to create a movie DVD where the final action of the timeline is to go back to the beginning of the timeline (I think this would be done by creating a DVD with no menu, just a timeline set as 1st play for auto start)
But... ask in the Encore forum to be sure

Thanks for responding. Sounds like learning Encore would be part of this solution. Will have to look and see later if thats even included in the Premiere I can use at work.

A looping Quicktime movie seems like such a simple concept - an Export checkbox: "loop infinitely". Any ideas on why this is not something that could easily be implemented into Premiere, Final Cut, Director etc.?