I have been experimenting with layers in A:M 11.1c. I have never used layers in A:M before and wanted to test out their versatility.

I have a Quicktime movie on one layer which displays correctly but I can't find a way of setting the movie to loop. The same goes for Image Sequences. I know that I am just missing something that is probably quite obvious but could someone give me a clue?

Howdy:

You'll need to keyframe the Frame property as you want it, then choose Repeat as your post-extrapolation method in the channel you created. To access the frame property, you'll need "Show more than drivers" turned on, I think.

This might be too obvious, but is it not in the properties for the movie? Or the layer?

Try switching off "hold last frame"?

Thanks, Ken, but I tried that and it still doesn't loop.

To loop any animated image, animate the frame property.

Here are steps:

New choreography
New layer

Pick any quicktime or other animation in my case it was a 10 frame quicktime.

Frame zero of the choreography, set the frame property of the layer's image property to zero.

Frame 10 of the choreography, set the frame property .. to 10.
Righ click on the frame property and choose, select driver, chor action 1 / image.frame

Change the end method (first button on the right on the image.frame driver) to repeat (third option)

Noel

Thank you so much!
That was driving me crazy! (Crazier)
I'm sure that doesn't have to be so convoluted, does it?

Thanks again though!

I wonder what the "Repeat" option in the properties does!?

Aha...I'm off to pasty that explanation too. Thanks for raising it!

Sorry, Ken, that 'Repeat' that you mentioned is not the image tiling button. I just checked the image that I posted. The 'Repeat' option in the image is indeed confusing and I am sure that anyone trying to find their way will assume, as you and I did, that this option is how you set the repetition of an image sequence or movie.