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testing-models-for-izzy-solved.zip

Hello William,

Place an instance of the 3d Player with the corresponding stage, model and texture map assignment in the scene you are cross fading from. This will effectively preload the texture and avoid the glitch. The 3D Player content is hidden in the initial scene but still loaded. It works in the modified patch attached because the 3D Player is assigned to a virtual stage that is not active until the scene cross fade is initiated.

You can alternatively, program the cross fade in the same scene - this will also avoid the glitch.

Best Wishes,

Russell

@vidasonik said:

Hi All just a very simple question. I loop movies a lot and sometimes there is a sudden jump between the end and start. Is there a way to introduce a crossfade so the end and start flow into each other less obtrusively?

This is a known limitation of the Movie Player on both MacOS and Windows. Mainly, the looping provided by the operating system (AVFoundation on macOS and Windows Media Foundation on Windows) always has this little pause at the loop point.

We are working on a solution for this for a future release (Windows is almost done; still have to deal with macOS). The main thing is to get away from MP4/H264 if that's the codec for your movie, because that's probably going to be the worst in terms of the glitch.

There are two possible solutions.

1) If you're on macOS, I would suggest JPEG (using the old QuickTime Player 7 if you can still run it) because that's probably the fastest. Otherwise, Apple Pro Res or HAP. On Windows, the best solution would be HAP.

2) Loop the movies yourself in an editing program and use those instead. If you want absolutely seamless loops, that's the only solution for now.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Best Wishes,
Mark

@fred said:

What I meant is like the scene cross fades that exist now where we can set in and out times, except having separate times for audio, allowing for proper more complex scene transitions.

Yes, I understood that. Having separate control of audio and video in fades would make doing this in a complex scene much simpler, I just wanted to give an example of what's currently possible.