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Hi,

I have a camera movement keyframed with 5 pauses. I was wondering if it would be possible to have a video material on a quad that will ignore the pauses and continue to loop? I need the camera to hold its position while a video headshot loops. Then when I hit 'take' again it moves to the next camera position and pause but the video still loops.

To be more specific, this is for football starting lineups on our videoboard... I am creating some 3d objects that we are calling 'pods' and basically the camera will need to animate in z space to those pods. The Xpression op will be timing it to a live PA which is why it needs to have built in pauses. I would like to animate the camera movement with the pauses. However, I would like the players headshot (small keyed video element) to continue looping/playing until the operator needs to hit that next camera movement forward.

Is something like this possible?

Don't put your material on scene director, and set them to loop (and autostart)...

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Thanks Vincent! That worked perfectly!

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You're welcome !

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I have a follow up question. I need video to start and loop at a given time in the scene director and I have a few pauses that stops the video. My question is very similar to Daniel's original one: Would it be possible to have a video material ignore the pauses and continue to loop while maintaining a particular start point?

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Maybe try adding a trigger pointing to a different scene director...maybe ?

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HI Jason,

Thanks for responding. It's an interesting suggestion. I've never ran multiple scene directors. How would I go about doing that?

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Search the forum for this topic: "3-point loop in template video" and look at the second response.

You can use that script to start a second scene director running with the looping clip and it will not be affected by pauses in the main scene director.

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Thanks Brian!

This works perfectly!

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