Dream Looping
Friday, January 17, 2014 by AzDude | Discussion: Animated Wallpapers
Just thinking out loud here , because I'm not sure but ...
Screen Saver technology has been around forever and produces a perfect seamless loop every time .
I know screensavers work off of animated stills and dreams work off of AVI video ....So ..
Would it be possible to update " Dream Maker " to produce the the same seamless loop to a Dream ?
Not sure what would need to be done to make this happen but Stardock has the right stuff ( staff and know how ) to do it ?
Allowing Dream Makers to work on Content and Quality 1st and foremost, and more Dream Makers to get in the game !
I know some dreams are rejected for looping problems ( me included ) , those few who have an expensive program
like After Effects and the know how to use it seem to produce good loops , but the many others fight the looping problem .
Some animations just seam impossible to do a seamless loop
I don't have After Effects so right now I'm using Movie Maker ( Windows 8.1 ) to split and reverse the video with cross-fading in between
for a seamless loop which works pretty good , most of the time , but sometimes after several tries with better alignment
Sometimes it just won't loop right and I toss the dream and move on .
So is this a dumb thought or request ? ... or is it possible for Dream Maker to do the looping ?
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Reply #1 Friday, January 17, 2014 12:01 PM
Dream Maker doesn't produce any content, it just converts the various formats to work with DeskScapes.
Hybrid .dreams can be animated stills.
https://forums.wincustomize.com/366621/page/1/
Most of the .dream which are rejected for looping are simply because the creator doesn't take the time to find a proper place to loop the video, and instead just ends the animation.