Hi,
I have an audio meditation that lasts an hour and want to place a looping nature video so there is some sort of visual for uploading to youtube.
The video I have is only about 16 seconds. Is there an easy way to duplicate the video or loop it so it keeps running through the duration of the audio?
Thanks
MacBook Air 13″, macOS 10.14
Put your video in the timeline. Select it by clicking on it. Do an Edit/Copy. Then do an Edit/Paste multiple times to paste the video over and over in the timeline. After you do 10 pastes, select the 10 clips as a batch, and do Edit/Copy of all 10 at once and Edit/Paste 10 at a time for several times. Then select the whole batch of what you have pasted, and Copy-Paste the whole batch several times as before. Repeat the process until you have your 1 hour video.
—Rich
Put your video in the timeline. Select it by clicking on it. Do an Edit/Copy. Then do an Edit/Paste multiple times to paste the video over and over in the timeline. After you do 10 pastes, select the 10 clips as a batch, and do Edit/Copy of all 10 at once and Edit/Paste 10 at a time for several times. Then select the whole batch of what you have pasted, and Copy-Paste the whole batch several times as before. Repeat the process until you have your 1 hour video.
—Rich
You could also select everything in the timeline and add a cross dissolve to the videos so there will be a smoother transition from the end of one to the start of another,
This will be unnecessary if you have a short clip of black at the beginning of each clip.
Unavoidable, unfortunately. There is no iMovie feature to export a looping movie. So, you must replicate the clips as I described. That will of course increase the size of the movie. The time factor is pretty negligible -- probably about 2 minutes. Video editing is not a fast endeavor, however.
You can do a View/Loop Playback in iMovie, but the loop will not carry over to the exported video.
After you export the movie you can open it in QuickTimePlayer and do a View/Loop.
-- Rich
Thanks so much Rich. I appreciate your time!
" I was hoping for a different solution where it didn't take too much time "
How long did it take you to do what Rich suggested ?
Surely no longer than about 1 minute .
Thanks so much for the answer. I did do that yesterday. I was hoping for a different solution where it didn't take too much time and didn't add so much to the file size. It went from being 241MB to 9GB.
Yes, thank you. I found an instruction video on that yesterday. That was super helpful to make transitions smoother and also not have to add them manually.
How to easily repeat/loop 16 sec video for 1 hour audio track on iMovie
