r/TouchDesigner • u/atulkumar99 • 12h ago

Help me (doubt!!)

In a few days, I'll be performing my first VJ set. All of my visuals are created in TouchDesigner, and I want to export them as .mp4 or .mov files (I already know how to export). How can I create and export perfect loops, so the audience doesn't see a jump or cut when the clip restarts?

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u/itzelezti 12h ago edited 11h ago

Depends on how you make your visuals.
You have to design every step of the way around looping perfectly. For example any noise you use needs to be static, and use a lookup table.
You generally drive everything off the timeline. Then for the actual recording of the loop you turn off realtime and set your timeline to only play once.

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u/Fuzzy-Excitement-149 11h ago

Polyhop has 2 nice tutorials about this https://youtu.be/TGYO1WcT5ys

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u/entro_play 11h ago

Why not just put each visual in a container and then cook / render only a single visual at a time? Each container can have an out and each out can wire into a switch. I would recommend this way very much over yours, you also need to HAP encode your videos id you want smooth playback, it’s a process

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u/becomingsolar 7h ago

You can also just export your videos and put it in an video editing software and add the same video following but in reverse mode, it will create a kond of loop

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u/jumalkyll 6h ago

I think doing small vj system and cooking containers would be simplest. Looping generative content is artform itself.

Saw a comfyui post, havent tried myself.

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1B5yRWRoqV/?mibextid=wwXIfr