Looping overlay gif help

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So when I want to loop an overlay, do I need to have all the lines on one line? so instead of what I have now:

&overlay BOOK18 create
&overlay 5964071350697984_BOOK18 shifts to -11309 -474 in zone 1
&overlay 5964071350697984_BOOK18 scales to 1.000 1.000
&overlay 5964071350697984_BOOK18 moves to layer 1
&overlay BOOK18 opacity 1 in .5

&overlay BOOK19 create
&overlay 5964071350697984_BOOK19 shifts to -11309 -474 in zone 1
&overlay 5964071350697984_BOOK19 scales to 1.000 1.000
&overlay 5964071350697984_BOOK19 moves to layer 1
&overlay BOOK19 opacity 1 in .5 loop infinite times

I would need to do

&overlay BOOK18 create and overlay 5964071350697984_BOOK18 shifts to -11309 -474 in zone 1 and overlay 5964071350697984_BOOK18 scales to 1.000 1.000 and overlay 5964071350697984_BOOK18 moves to layer 1 and overlay BOOK18 opacity 1 in .5 and overlay BOOK19 create and overlay 5964071350697984_BOOK19 shifts to -11309 -474 in zone 1 and overlay 5964071350697984_BOOK19 scales to 1.000 1.000 and overlay 5964071350697984_BOOK19 moves to layer 1 and overlay BOOK19 opacity 1 in .5 loop infinite times

instead ?

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What do you want to be looped?
All of it, or just the action of book19?
What do you want book19 to do, because I don’t see any movement to be repeated, it is just been created and placed in a position.

(Though I may be blind, haven’t looked at script for a long time. Would you be able to highlight what you need doing?)

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i was trying to get all of it looped, so it kind of played like a gif or video would

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Ohhh right!
You could create the overlays earlier in the dialogue but keep them in opacity 0 until needed. Like:
&overlay BOOK18 create
&overlay 5964071350697984_BOOK18 shifts to -11309 -474 in zone 1
&overlay 5964071350697984_BOOK18 scales to 1.000 1.000
&overlay 5964071350697984_BOOK18 moves to layer 1
&overlay BOOK18 opacity 0 in 0

&overlay BOOK19 create
&overlay 5964071350697984_BOOK19 shifts to -11309 -474 in zone 1
&overlay 5964071350697984_BOOK19 scales to 1.000 1.000
&overlay 5964071350697984_BOOK19 moves to layer 1
&overlay BOOK19 opacity 0 in 0

  • I placed it into my script and the looping command does not work. This is because there is nothing to be repeated because the overlay has just been created. The overlay starts at the bottom of the page, but you will need to put placement commands for the overlay to move.(e.g, shifts to/scales to)

You could set it out like this:

EXT. BACKGROUND - NIGHT

&overlay BOOK18 create
&overlay 5964071350697984_BOOK18 shifts to -11309 -474 in zone 1
&overlay 5964071350697984_BOOK18 scales to 1.000 1.000
&overlay 5964071350697984_BOOK18 moves to layer 1
&overlay BOOK18 opacity 0 in 0

&overlay BOOK19 create
&overlay 5964071350697984_BOOK19 shifts to -11309 -474 in zone 1
&overlay 5964071350697984_BOOK19 scales to 1.000 1.000
&overlay 5964071350697984_BOOK19 moves to layer 1
&overlay BOOK19 opacity 0 in 0 (you can also start them in opacity 1 if you need them to be seen in the scene before hand)

  CHARACTER
Dialogue.

    CHARACTER
Dialogue.

(maybe your character movements?)

(Then the overlay movements:)
&overlay BOOK19 opacity 1 in .5 AND overlay BOOK18 opacity 1 in .5 AND overlay BOOK19 shifts to # in 1 AND overlay BOOK19 scales to # in 1 AND overlay BOOK18 shifts to # in 0.7 AND overlay BOOK18 scales to # in 0.7

I assume this would work…
Hope it does! :blob_hearts:

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thank u so much omg

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here you have tutorial on how to make looping gif

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