Looping my own background - I'm lost

[deepfriedpickles]

I’m coming back after a very long break and I’ve to re-watch many tutorials to refresh my memory, but I can’t seem to get this!

I read Dara’s overlay guide and watched a few YouTube tutorials, and I still can’t seem to figure it out. If someone sees where I’m going wrong, I’m all ears.

The hospital looping background doesn’t move fast enough for what I want to do, so I uploaded the background as an overlay in the hopes of just manually making it faster.

I can’t get it to look seamless. It’s visually very jumpy no matter how I arrange the code. Can someone please help me?

INT. HOSPITAL HALL - DAY with LOOPING HOSPITAL 
&zoom reset
&overlay LOOPING HOSPITAL scales to 1.000 1.000 
&overlay LOOPING HOSPITAL rotates 0 anchor point 0 0 
&overlay LOOPING HOSPITAL to layer 1
&overlay LOOPING HOSPITAL opacity 1
&overlay LOOPING HOSPITAL shifts to -1000 0 in zone 2 in 1 THEN overlay LOOPING HOSPITAL shifts to -2 0 in zone 2 in 1 loop infinite times

[Dara.Amarie]

Loop Your Own Background | Dara Amarie

[deepfriedpickles]

Thank you so much for the resources!

I resized my overlay to 1183 W x 700 H then re-uploaded it, and I updated it to the code you have on your site. It fits perfectly height wise, but not width for some reason. The loop goes for too long and shows the blue background. I don’t know what I’m missing.

This is the code that I have now:

EXT. BLUE - DAY with LOOPING HOSPITAL to 1.625 0 0 in zone 1 at layer -5
&overlay LOOPING HOSPITAL shifts to -640 0 in 1 THEN overlay LOOPING HOSPITAL shifts to -960 0 in 0.5 THEN overlay LOOPING HOSPITAL shifts to 0 0 in zone 2 in 0 THEN overlay LOOPING HOSPITAL shifts to 0 0 in zone 2 in 1 THEN overlay LOOPING HOSPITAL shifts to 0 0 in 0.5 THEN overlay LOOPING HOSPITAL shifts to 0 0 in 0 loop INFINITE times

[Dara.Amarie]

That’s not the entire code. You’re missing the duplicate overlay coding. Make sure you copy and paste the entire coding.

[deepfriedpickles]

I don’t know how I missed that! Thank you so much for your help It worked once I had everything right!

(You’ve helped me so many times over the years, and I appreciate you a lot!)

[Dara.Amarie]

You’re welcome!