Best settings for seamless shorts loop

quangle wrote on 4/25/2025, 10:24 AM

Movie Studio Platinum 16.0

I'm trying to make short loop videos with my own music for Youtube Shorts, Reels, TikTok, etc.

I've created a ~20 second WAV music loop that plays seamlessly on repeat on a PC media player. I've used that in Movie Studio to put over a video loop and when played on loop in MS it is also seamless. No audio or video glitch.

But when I export it and play the video in any of my local media players it glitches between loops. Same when uploaded to Youtube shorts. NB, I set the markers to the audio segment and when selecting render or Make Movie I check 'loop region only'.

There are plenty of videos out there that loop undetectably. Can MS 16.0 do this and if so could someone recommend settings please.

Thanks

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quangle wrote on 5/6/2025, 11:49 AM

Anyone?

Gid wrote on 5/6/2025, 12:31 PM

@quangle Hi, more info would be needed,

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Screen capture the whole MS UI, a screen shot of the project properties & one of the render settings.

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Do this for both the video that you're applying the loop to & the loop itself -

There's an App called MediaInfo, download it, it's free & a fast download with no added adverts or any of that rubbish https://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo.

After downloading, right click on the media file in your Windows folder, open MediaInfo, choose Text from the options at the top, drag the edges of the window that pops up so it shows all the information & screen capture that page, post that image on here using the arrow button next to the smiley at the top of a new comment 👍

Or Copy & paste the information in a new comment like this -

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A sample of the loop might be useful, share that on a file sharing site like Google Drive. (it's understood if you'd prefer not to do that)

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Share the link to the YT video that shows the glitch with the chain button at the top of a new comment.

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& inc your PC specs, Full name of the CPU, GPU & amount of RAM, also inc what Windows version you're on.

quangle wrote on 5/6/2025, 1:13 PM

Thanks for your reply.. Seems a bit complicated, tbh.

I've made a loop that loops seamlessly, both audio and video, in Movie Studio Platinum 16.0 itself. But when I render it for upload to one of the video sites the loop is no longer seamless. It glitches each time it comes back to the start.

In general terms are there recommended settings for video shorts of the TikTok, Reels variety? File format, codec, frame rates, etc? Is MS 16 even capable of rendering seamless loops or should I use a different specialist tool?

EricLNZ wrote on 5/6/2025, 6:36 PM

@quangle I'm unclear what you are doing when you say "I've used that in Movie Studio to put over a video loop". Please describe what you are doing to create the loop.