CONTINUOUS LOOP FOR VIDE SLIDESHOW- Premiere Elements 14

[ladyydoc]

I'm putting together a video slideshow for a high school class reunion and want the video to continuously loop.
I can't find anything on Premiere Elements 14 that explains how to do that.
I am a novice at this and need explanation in layman's terms, please.

Please help
ladyydoc

[JVRaines]

You can't render an infinitely long video, so the loop must be implemented by the player. All players have loop settings, but you'll need to test them to find one that doesn't create a glitch or delay when it repeats. VLC is usually seamless.

[TreeTops]

Is it a file (movie) that you created on PE? What media? CD, DVD, Hard drive? If you are just playing it from a computer to a projector then the software should have that looping feature. Need a little more info from you to really answer in a intelligent manner.

(JVRaines beat me by split second. His recommendation is good for a player and I like MPC-HC for a player. )

[johnmeyer]

If you put the video on a DVD (SD resolution only, of course), the DVD can easily be authored so that it will loop infinitely.

[TreeTops]

Let her respond to my questions so that we can answer in a meaningful manner. She said she is a novice so I doubt that she knows how to author a DVD.

[johnmeyer]

Let her respond to my questions so that we can answer in a meaningful manner. She said she is a novice so I doubt that she knows how to author a DVD.

Why do we all have to wait until she answers your question?? Are you saying that anything the rest of us might have to say might confuse the OP? I was not aware that someone posting an answer in a forum could claim preemptive privileges over all other forum members.

Also, by what act of mind reading were you able to discern that the OP knows nothing about authoring a DVD?

[TreeTops]

From this in her first post: "I am a novice at this " implies that she may not know how to author a DVD. If she did, she's not a novice. She did not give us enough info to make an intelligent reply. We are just guessing with our answers. Just look at the responses. At least two solutions already mentioned. I see this quite often here where there is a question and 5 people respond with 5 different answers when there was not enough info presented to make a good response. Even I was guilty of that here.

[johnmeyer]

From this in her first post: "I am a novice at this " implies that she may not know how to author a DVD. If she did, she's not a novice. She did not give us enough info to make an intelligent reply. We are just guessing with our answers. Just look at the responses. At least two solutions already mentioned. I see this quite often here where there is a question and 5 people respond with 5 different answers when there was not enough info presented to make a good response. Even I was guilty of that here.

OK, I'll make sure to never post unless:

1. The OP does a perfect job describing every possible aspect of their problem.

2. The OP posts their CV or résumé proving, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that they have a Ph.D. in video editing.

All posts which are deficient in any manner, or which suggest the person may not have a full grasp of the subject will be ignored.

That will make this forum so much easier to navigate because, of course, under those rules there will be no posts.

Sheesh ...

[ladyydoc]

Correct, I have no idea what authoring a DVD means.
The slideshow is presently on my hard drive, but I've saved it to a thumb drive. I do not have a burner....unless I'm unaware that I do. I have a Macbook Pro.
It is a slideshow of photographs and typed memorials of people who have passed away. There is no actual moving video.
It will be played on a 40 inch monitor, using an HDMI cable, to my lap top.
I've searched through the menus on PE and can't find anything that gives instructions on how to loop anything

Thank you for your help

[_Al_]

Encode High definition video, 1920x1080, some mp4 file, make sure that video starts with cross fadefrom black to your first picture and also end your slideshow video with fade to black. This will provide visually seamless playback all the time, while repeating, not some abrupt scene change.
Then use software player on your laptop that allows endless repeat of a video, not sure what is good for Mac. I think any player should be able to to that.

[ladyydoc]

I understood most of the advice. Someone earlier said to download VLC....and I did that. I just have no idea what to do once I've downloaded it. I encoded Hi Def, etc....and saved it to my documents. I opened VLC, but have no idea how to use the software with the saved slideshow.


Thank you

[johnmeyer]

I've done quite a few funeral videos that play as a continuous loop during the wake.

If you don't create a DVD, then the looping must be done by the media player.

1. Drag the video file onto VLC. It should start playing.
2. Click on the "repeat" icon to enable repeat mode. Each time you click it will cycle through different repeat options and eventually will go back to not repeating.

Here's a screen grab showing where to click: