Hello, don’t know if anyone here would know this but does Sony Vegas Pro 17 offer the ability to loop a video w/music for 8 hours? Example, to create a Meditation video for YouTube. On the free trial version I was only given 2 min.
Thanks,
Kathy
@Kathleen-Bolness AFAIK there's no limit to the length of video you can produce in the paid for version of Vegas Pro 17.
The easiest way of doing what you want to do is as follows.
Load your video onto the timeline. Right click the video part, go to Switches and make sure that the Loop option is checked.
Go to the end of your video and click and hold the edge. Pull the edge along the timeline until you reach the 8 hour mark which will be 08:00:00:00 on the timeline scale. The audio part will follow (unless you've Ungrouped it).
You will see small 'v's on the video and audio parts of the event where the video and audio will loop.
Render as normal (but this'll be a long render).
but does Sony Vegas Pro 17
@Kathleen-Bolness, There is no such product. Magix purchased Vegas over 5 years ago. The last "Sony" version was version 13.
https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/sony-vegas-vs-vegas--119881/
On the free trial version I was only given 2 min.
That is a limitation of the trial. The purchased version can go as long as you want.
Hello, don’t know if anyone here would know this but does Sony Vegas Pro 17 offer the ability to loop a video w/music for 8 hours? Example, to create a Meditation video for YouTube. On the free trial version I was only given 2 min.
You're confused. Video files themselves do not have a command to loop. Only the player (in this case Youtube Live) has the ability to do this, and it can continuously loop any video stream.
@Kathleen-Bolness You can definitely do it as @Jack S described in the paid version of Vegas. But you might have issues dealing with the size of the resultant video. Size on your disk for one. And upload time, if YouTube will even allow your account to upload a video that long. A simpler work-around would be to render and upload without the looping, then pull up the normal YouTube playback screen on your browser, right-click on the video, and select "Loop". Should make any YouTube video play till your computer shuts down or goes to sleep. You can use Windows settings to keep your screen and computer awake if necessary.
If you are describing repeating the video over and over in one file, that does not meet the definition of looping, which is a streaming playback function not seen since the demise of Flash. Some support for file-initiated looping seen in HTML5, however, if one decides to go that route.
To ask Vegas (or any NLE) to render the same content over and over again for an 8 hour video would be time consuming and a waste of processing power. Better to render just one iteration of your content then use a utility to stitch together enough copies of that one file to create the desired duration.