Loop events cause other events to repeat over time in the output video. They control sequencing, but perform no image processing.
A Loop event is always a parent event with a single child. The child itself can be a parent with children. Any type of event can be the child of a Loop event, including another Loop event.
The Loop event’s range bar displays the original duration of the child event’s playback in color and the range of looped events in gray. You can change the duration of the child event’s playback by dragging the child’s frame range or the child’s original range in the Loop event’s track, but you can adjust the full length of the loop (the gray part of the range bar) only by changing the Number of Times parameter in the Edit Loop Event dialog box.
Loop: Repeats the child event by starting it over when the child event reaches the end of its range. This is the default.
Ping Pong: Repeats the child event by playing it first forwards, then backwards, then forwards, and so on. The last frame of the child event is not repeated.
Specifies the number of times to repeat the loop or ping pong, in addition to the first time that the child event is played.
VP Start Time/End Time: Sets the starting and ending frames for the selected event within the overall Video Post queue. Video Post renders the event over the number of frames specified here.
Enabled: Enables or disables the event. When this box is clear, the event is disabled and Video Post ignores it when rendering the queue. Each event must be disabled individually. For example, disabling a composite layer event does not disable the composited image events. The range bars of disabled events are grayed out in the event track area.
An Add Loop Event dialog appears.
The Loop event appears as the parent of the selected event.
The Loop event repeats the child event over the course of the Loop event's range.