Repeating a keyframe

I need to make a layer's opacity flicker on and off. If I were doing this in LightWave 3D I would set a frame to 100%, then the next frame to 0% and set the 2nd frames post behavior to "repeat". Is there a way to do this in AfterFX? Thanks.

It will work if you just add the needed colon after transform.opacity., ie transform.opacity.loopOut("cycle")
But in this kind of case, it will also work if you just overwrite transform.opacity and just type in loopOut("cycle")
I got into art to avoid code
Just learning a few snippets which you don't even need to understand fully, would be very convenient. Better to type a short line than repeating dozens of keyframes, right? There are many other examples of this.
Understanding them fully would raise your creative possibilities by a factor of 10, IMO, and can be really fun. Even the least math-oriented guy (for example, myself) can become an expression junkie when seeing what they can do for your projects.
There's a book out on After Effects Expressions, which I feel does a good job in introducing them to all kind of users.

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Complete beginnner needs help...

As a complete Flash beginner, I have a project I am trying to
make but I am unsure how to acheive it...
I want to to have 3 x 3 Frame Keyframe animations (very
simple) with a title keyframe in between each one. What I am
struggling with is that instead of repeating the keyframes lots of
times and having a huge project I want to repeat each 2 Keyframe
animation 30 times (making it a minute long) before moving onto the
text keyframe and then the next 2 keyframe animation to loop 30
times before moving on... I then want the whole thing to loop.
What code do you use in Flash CS3 (ActionScrpit 3.0) to
acheive this for each set of keyframes? To keep it simple they are
all one one layer. Any help would be gratefully recieved- thinking
this was a simple question I have been searching on here for ages
and cannot find anything that works... but I think its more do with
my lack of knowledge rather than lack of information...

I think I may have made my previous post more convoluted than
it needed to be :)
I just want to know what code to use to make a group of
keyframes repeat a certain number of times then carry on with the
rest of the movie..
Any tips in Actionscript 3 (or 2!) would be gratefully
appreciated!

How to use the slider to avoid keyframes movements?

Hi there,
first of all, I have to tell, I am not a English speaker, so please excuse me in advance. Anyway, I want to solve this particular issue: I have created an After effects project, where you can add into the composition your own text, logo or whatever... what the after effects project does is, that it turns your text, or logo into the 3D metal result. There is also camera cretaed, which moves from one position, to another. Take a look:
The inputed text is "add content" (I have 4 cameras alltogether, but I am showing an example just on the first one, so you will not see the whole text. The rest of the cameras are also in other compositions)
Here you can see the exact movement of the camera. However, if somebody inserts a logo or a text, which has for example 7 letters (in the next picture it is just "content") it will look like this:
here you can see how big space we have. Also it is not appropriate to change the original size of the text in the composition to achieve the smallest gap, as we can see here. The height will be huge then...
If I would edit it by myself, I would do this:
-I would clicked on the button "2 views" and choose view from the "front"
-Then I would select all the keyframes and after that i would go into the left window "front" and using the mouse I would draged whole the camera to the position I want:
The great thing about this is, that as I selected all the keyframes and then set the red line on one of them, the camrea will work even for the beginning! So this is how it will look after the fix.
What the problem is, that after the small edit I want to send this project to few of my friends. Then they can easily put their text, or logo in. The text will have different height, width...it will be shorter or longer. I was just wondering, if you could help with some expressions, linkings and so on, so in the final result, of one my friends could move with the whole camera (not just with one keyframe) using the SLIDER CONTROL. At least for the x and y axis, if z axis is also possible, it would be brilliant. It also doesn't matter how many sliders there will be .
So basically with using the sliders, they should achieve this:
So i need some helpful steps. Please help me. This is very important for me. I will be so much thankful!! Really! (Thanks for the potential help )

You are way over thinking your problem and potentially headed down a path that will cause more problems that it will solve.
If you have a camera path that is already animated and you want to change the position of the camera path as a whole the easiest way to do that would be to create a null and then parent the camera to the null. Move the null and all of the camera movements you have set up will follow. No expressions are needed. This is the easiest way to change every aspect of a motion path, rotate the entire path, scale the path, or move the path on any axis.
If you really want to use 3 position sliders to move existing keyframes to a new value adding value + expressions values will allow you to do this. Just add an three expression control sliders to the camera layer (or any layer like the null you are using as a parent) select the name of the slider in the ECW and press enter and rename it. Something like this will be the result.
Notice that I also have rotation and scale controls in this setup. Now that you have 3 sliders you can separate the position property of the null into individual values enable expressions in each property and type in value +, then use the pickwhip to drag from the X value to your slider named xPosition (in my example) and repeat for each operation. The value + will add the value of the slider to the current value of the position keyframes. The expression will look like this for X:
value + effect("x position")("Slider")
If you want to use sliders I would use a null, add expression controls to the null for position, scale, and rotation, keep the camera position property unified and then use your expression control sliders on the null to modify your existing path. I would not suggest doing this directly on camera position with separated X, Y and Z values because this will change the shape of your camera path and would be more difficult to control. You'll probably also want to create a camera POInull and use this preset to tie the camera's point of interest to the null.
Here's an animation preset you can apply to a null that will give complete control to the motion path of any animated layer you make the child of this null. Search Animation Preset in the After Effects Search Help field if you do not know how to use them, create them, and save them.
As a final gimme, here's a CS6 project using this animation preset to control a null's position that used to change an animated camera path.

Trying to make a looped animation outside of comp space: expression or keyframe?

Not quite sure on how to title it but thats the jist if it:)
Hello and thank you for your time,
Basically, I want to take a tiny small shape object within a comp size of 2048 x 1024, and have it animated so that this small shape object starts at the very top edge of the comp (where comp meets the grey dark-matter space), and move it straight down to the bottom edge of the comp, and then have to repeat again starting at the top again, so that this small shape object is constantly starting at the top, and moving down to the bottom.
From there I can adjust speed and even angle of travel so that I can rotate the trajectory and have it move at an angle for example.
Is there a expression that can repeat this tragectory over and over again without me always keyframing it??
D

You can set 2 position keyframes then add this expression to the Position property.
loopOut("cycle")
that will get you to the looping movement stage of your project. Now Pre-compose the layer and add time remapping to adjust the speed.
I'll have to think of a way to automate the rest. It will involve some advanced expressioneering.

Can I publish keyframed parameters in an FCP generator?

Hi
I'm making an FCP generator in Motion and have a layer which moves from (0,0) to (x,y) and then goes back to (0,0).
What I would like to do is publish the (x,y) position so that I can change this in FCP. I have currently keyframed the animation with a dummy value for (x,y), but when I try to publish this it works fine in the Project Publishing pane (with values and keyframes) but when I bring it into my FCP timeline I have no keyframes and a zero value.
I can go in and manually add keyframes to my position parameter, but that rather spoils the whole benefit of doing it as a template. If the keyframes carried over it would be a start. If I could isolate the (x,y) keyframe and just allow that to be changed while maintaining the (0,0) that would be awesome.
If you cannot do this is it a bug which may at some point be fixed, or is it not meant to do this? The fact that the keyframes are there in the Project Publishing pane makes me think that they should export to FCP.
Would this work if I set up a rig? Can I specify values at certain points in time and then use a slider or similar to specify where the position value will go at my mid-keyframe? I haven't used rigs before but am happy to learn how to use them if they can do what I want.
My other thought (although I think this will become an inelegant solution) was that I could use a ramp to behaviour on x-position and one on y-position, and publish these values with ramps back to (0,0). At this point that doesn't seem too complicated, but I actually have a number of layers doing a number of things [and sometimes starting at (x,y) and moving to (0,0) and then back to (x,y)] so would have quite a lot of ramp values published which would become confusing, if this would work at all.
Perhaps I would have to use a rig to combine some of these if this is my only option?
Sorry if I'm at all vague. I know very clearly what I want to do and sometimes get befuddled explaining, but if I can publish keyframed position parameters (or preferably just the mid-point) I know that would solve it quite easily.
I'll keep experimenting and update with how I get on, but any help would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers

Sorry, my mistake. I forgot to mention that this is an image movement for a slideshow and will be repeated (with the variable (x,y) values) multiple times in the timeline.
Yes, if it was a single instance then keyframing in FCP would be fine. For the thirty or so occasions I will need to keyframe it makes more sense to automate if possible.
I tried rigs but the same thing happens.
Then I managed to make something work whereby I keyframed the rig to go from 0 to 100 to 0 and set the corresponding x positions as 0 and 100. Publishing this makes the layer move to (0,100) and back to (0,0) when the slider is set at 100 and lowering the slider lowers the x position reached.
This only works in one direction (can't move left and right) so isn't ideal.
Then I changed the keyframed animation to two ramps on the x position and it's actually more elegant than I thought. One ramp goes from 0 to x and stops with an end offset. Then the second ramp kicks straight in taking it from 0 to -x. Set up a rig with a slider connected to both ramps end values, one directly connected and one inversely connected. Hey presto, one slider connecting to a variable move in the x direction that also accepts negative values (I played with the max and min values of the slider).
I just need to do the same for y position. This should also work where I start at (x,y) as I will just connect to the start value and tweak the start offset to time my move.
Hope that makes sense. If anybody wants to do something similar and needs further explanation please ask. This is truly amazing. I can set up a zoom in to start and end anywhere on screen (i.e. zoom top left corner into middle of screen) and control where we zoom from within FCP... or control other parameters in a similar way.

Repeated frames when time remapping AVCHD clips in AE

I will try to explain the best I can. Keep in mind I am a novice and by no means highly technical. First some background: I edit sports video for college bound athletes. I put together highlight videos for them. When I am filming I start/stop the camera at the beginning/end of a play so I can easily identify/edit "clips". I have imported 10 AVCHD "clips" from my Sony HDR-SR11 to a Premiere Pro CS4 project. I am using the "AVCHD 1080i anamorphic/29.97fps" sequence setting as my output for this project will be a 1440x1080 mepeg2 file. So I get my clips in the timeline add some transitions, no major edits, render the work area and playback. Everything looks fine, all clips play smooth. Now here's the rub. I want to freeze play, highlight an athlete then continue play. To do this I am using AFTER EFFECTS (NOTE I have done this with HDV footage off my Canon HV20 camera with no problems) so anyway with the new CS4 edition I can right click on a clip in my timeline and choose "replace with after effects composition"....I do and the clip migrates to AE into a a composition ready for me to work my magic. So my method for freezing play is select the "clip" in the composition, Ctrl-Alt-T for time remapping. I add 5 seconds to the duration of the composition since I am going to add time when I freeze the clip. I find the point in the clip where I want to freeze it. I place a "time remap" keyframe at that point. I then drag my mouse to highlight the keyframe I just placed and the keyframe at the end of the clip......I drag them to the right 2 seconds, then cut/paste the keyframe I added which is placed by the CTI (which is still at the original point). Now I have a 2 second freeze in play. I add a white solid and do some masking to highlight the athlete during that freeze. And that's it.....I press "O" then "N" to define the work area then I choose "trim comp to work area" from the composition menu. I repeat this process to all my clips and here is where I see the problem. I go back to my timeline in PP and I play the clips......I see my freeze/highlight edits from AE just fine but on SOME clips......2 out of 5 for example.....I get jittery playback. So I decided to scrub thru the clip frame by frame to see what is going on. So within 29 frames this is what I see. Girl is getting ready to serve a volleyball....Frame 1-15....she steps forward to serve THEN at frame 18 she pops back to the starting point...IT LOOKS LIKE FRAMES 1-12 ARE BEING REPEATED. I scrub the rest of the clip and this happens at random points....a small block of frames gets repeated throughout the clip which in the end looks like "jitter" or "jumpy" motion. I follow the same workflow in AE for each clip BUT this "jitter" does not happen on every clip...only some. So is my workflow at fault or is AE/PP/Adobe still buggy when it comes to working with AVCHD codec?? Anyone else experience this, if so do you have a fix?

I haven't tested your theory yet Andrew but I did do this. In trying to track down exactly where these repeated frames are occurring. In AE I redid one clip that was repeating frames. I went frame by frame in AE and see no repeated frames. These changes should occur automatically in PP since the AE comp is still dynamically linked to my PP timeline. So I scrubbed the "source" (AE comp) file from the PP project panel frame by frame. And low and behold there are repeated frames, so it appears the problem is the handoff from AE to PP Sooooooo, ok I deleted the source file in the PP project panel and reimport it via dynamic link. Open the clip in the source monitor and yes...repeated frames at same point....recheck the comp in AE....no repeated frames. Delete the clip from PP project panel and this time import the clip directly instead of dynamic link.....repeated frames still there. So how about rendering the clip in AE the old fashion way then import to PP. AE Render Queue best settings - lossless.....blah blah blah. I ended up with an .avi file with no repeated frames. So to me the problem is the handoff between AE & PP. So rendering my AVCHD comps in AE first is my work around for now. Andrew...thanks! I will try your theory of converting the clip prior to the comp asap...right now I am trying to meet a deadline.

Why can't I see the keyframes in color over stroke?

Why can't I see the keyframes in color over stroke? I am trying to adjust a heart beat monitor effect I created. I started with a bezier line and gave it a light streak #3 style. In the Color Over Stoke shape window I can click the arrows left and right to jump from KF to KF but they will not appear as editable points in the keyframe editor. I wonder if this is a bug?
Thanks
Wilson

Here's what I did to see them
-Added a line shape
-Dropped Light Steak 3 style on the line layer in the layer list.
-Selected the line and in the inspector, went to Shape>Stroke>Color over stroke.
-Selected the first color tag in the gradient.
-At the far right side of the color parameter, clicked the downward facing arrow and selected "Show in Keyframe Editor" option.
The keyframes show up in the keyframe editor. Repeat for each color or opacity tag as needed.

How do I keyframe Text Color Changes

I'm trying to rapidly change the color of the text by keyframes but it's not working. it's just staying the same color the entire time. What am i missing?

It is working fine here. Maybe you are not setting the keyframes properly.
You should set the keyframes in the Inspector. Move the playhead to the position where you wan to set the keyframe; click the key frame button and *then* select the color; repeat this for each keyframe. Note that there is a keyframe button for each possible parameter that can be keyframed. When you hover the mouse over it, it will show a '+' to add a keyframe, or, if you already have keyframe at the current position, it will show an 'x' for deleting the keyframe.
In this screenshot you can see the keyframe button to create a keyframe for the title color.
Keep in mind that in FCP X you must create the keyframe before you set the value for the property you are keyframing.

Motion crashing each time I modify keyframes in editor

Every time I try to modify one of the parameters of keyframing in Motion's editor, it crashes and I need to reboot. Everything else seems to function normally, with this only specific exception.
I was wondering if anyone was experiencing the same or had some fix. I'm on 2 Gig RAM.
Thank you!

So - one day on the Pro Video support line, two trips to the Apple Store and one replacement machine later, I have an answer that may help if you have an ATI graphics card.
There seems to be an issue between Motion and ATI video cards when it comes to the Keyframe Editor. I have the ATI Radeon X1900 card, but this Keyframe Editor problem was replicable in a Macbook Pro with an ATI card as well. We tested it across several machines in the store and it was just the ones with ATI in the video slot that had this problem.
There is not a solution for this at this time, but there is a fairly simple workaround rule:
Always start keyframing on any object with the Record button - you will then be able to use the Keyframe Editor to modify the keyframes of that object. You can even add keyframes to the object and modify those - however, if you do this and then start to modify another object that hasn't been started off with keyframes from the Record button, you will have the same hard freeze issue. Seemingly, it is as simple as that.
I have Motion working fine on my machine and have yet to have the problem repeat if I follow this rule.
I have not, however, tried this in modifying behaviors or particles with keyframes, but I suspect if you hit Record and modify the values in the Inspector, you should get the same result.
Keep posting any problems that persist, as Apple is being made aware of the issue by the techs at the SF store. Gotta say they were pretty persistent in getting to the bottom of this and finding a workaround, especially Michael in the Business unit - thanks to all!
2 x 3GHz Dual-core Intel Xeon, 4GB RAM Mac OS X (10.4.8)

How to create presets for Keyframes in Adobe Premire Pro CC?

Dear Users,
I´m working on a Clip with more than one Video inside. I want to have one video in the back and the other Video on the right lower side (Picture in Picture).
Sometimes the right one should move to full screen and after a few seconds it should go back to the lower right again. This action
will be repeat many times in the complet movie, so I have to create keyframes for the movement (right to full screen / full screen to lower right).
All the time I have to copy the needed Keyframes and have to paste them on the new direction, but this needs many time.
So my question: Is it possible to make presets for the keyframe actions? Means, if I reach a position where I need the action
"right to full screen" I have to klick only one Preset Button and the keyframes will be added at this position!
Hope there is a possibility.
Best regards and sorry for my bad english!

Hello,
You can try the following work around with composition:-
1) Add a you tube video to the page.
2) Drag the video to the target of composition widget.
3) Resize the video to have the size of the target.
The triggers can have the images related to the videos so as to act as thumbnails for videos.
Regards,
Neha

Title animation repeats when I move the segment

Hiya,
I'm very new to FInal Cut Pro X.
I have made a title with the lens flare animation. I set two keyframe markers to make the text enlarge before disappearing. It worked perfectly. Until...
I moved the segment and the animation went haywire. The animation now starts two or three times before the segment has finished playing.
I can't move the segments at all without this happening. My only option seems to be to decide exactly where I want the segment before I work on it. Which can't be correct.
Can anybody help, please?
Thank you.

Hi Tom!
Thanks for replying.
Here are two screenshots showing the keyframes I set for one of the titles. I'm using the Lens Flare titles.
When I move the completed title along the timeline it adds extra keyframes in seemingly random positions, which I then have to delete manually. Otherwise they make the individual titles repeatedly flare and change size. Working with six titles is almost impossible because they all behave similarly when I shift them along.
I feel that it might be to do with the fact that the keyframes are stuck to the timeline and not the title segments, but I just don't know
Thanks for your support,
Bart

Animation Question: Changing all keyframe instances in a single layer all at once?

I am working on an animated piece in Adobe Flash. I have a
single 'head comp' layer that contains head, eyes, mouth, etc.
layers within. I have created several keyframes in this layer to
animate the entire head comp. Furthermore, I have several keyframes
within that comp for lip sync, eye movements, etc.
My problem is, I have to manually change every single
keyframe in the head comp layer to sync up with the animation
contained within. For example, if I have a keyframe on the main
head comp layer-- on frame 5-- I have to manually select frame 5,
go to Properties panel, change to "Play Once," and then type in the
frame number in the "First" field. I then have to repeat this
process several hundred times across the entire layer. There must
be a faster to to sync up the whole layer. Please help!!!

Thanks again for your help.
I think my problem here is, I'm not trying to move any frames
or anything. I just want to change the properties panel of each
keyframe in the layer to "Play Once" and have the number in the
"First" field match it's frame number (example: I want to change
the "First" field to "10" if the keyframe starts on frame 10. That
way it will match up with my lip sync animation on frame 10 of the
nested layer within.) Does that make sense? I have been having to
change each keyframe number in the layer manually. It takes
forever.
The "Play Once/Loop/Single Frame" option isnt available if I
dont create a motion tween. Again, I'm not trying to move my
animation-- just change all of the Properties at once.
Also- if this helps- I am working in CS3.

CS5.5 & various audio & keyframe & modifier issues

Hey all,
Can anyone confirm these problems? Some of this stuff went from working perfect in CS5 and seeming to be way bugged in CS5.5, for me.
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- something serious is wrong with submixes. At times it forgets what I did and appears to undo itself without me noticing. When I was working a couple nights ago, I had to redo the same spot of audio keyframing a certain part of a submix like 5 times. I'd fix it, playback okay good. Move on and keep working, and later when I go to playback, that part was screwed up again and I'd have to build it again. | Next, it likes to just make a bunch of keyframes on it's own at times, adding a bunch of points at random levels and times. I could often just undo them, but it's still doing something crazy and all by itself. | Last, complicating both of these issues, the redraw isn't refreshing properly.. a lot of the time when I noticed the two above issues by playing back, everything looked fine in the timeline, and then zooming or scrubbing over the area, the submix track draws itself and updates what's really there.
- this one's carried over from CS5--certain audio filters, like Denoise, seem to randomly bug out if a project gets too complicated. Sometimes during playback, sometimes even during export--and random, not repeatable or predictable--what happens is the volume suddenly goes really low on the track with the filter almost dissappearing. Simply stopping and playing it again (or exporting it again) works, however quite annoying & killer when an export is screwed up due to the bug.
- Similarly, sometimes whole tracks or clips dissappear when playing back. I've never noticed the problem on export, but on a fairly simple commercial project I'm doing, often on playback the music dissappears or doesn't playback at all. I have the music split into several parts, because I did some fades to adjust how long it is. When it hits the next 'clip' of the song, it comes plays that back fine. Again, stopping, resetting the time indicator, and playing back again almost always solves the issue.. kinda of to get it to "catch"/have the magic touch when you playback.. no specific action or behaviour is causing the problem.
Thanks.. let me know if anyone has some suggestions or ideas, will submit to bug report as needed. I can say the last 2 have been issues for a long time and I've seen them over multiple systems and installations; however I can't say the same for first two, which are CS5.5 introduced.
- wb

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Tools to Convert to DV-AVI http://forums.adobe.com/thread/415317
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As well as the links just above, use Google to find conversion software
I have NOT used the products below, I only forward due to other mentions... so YMMV and all the usual disclaimers... check the links and read to find out if one of the products listed below will rip or convert the files you have to something you need for editing
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CAN'T KEYFRAME FILTER!

I posted a topic about this a month or two back and, while I have left the project alone for a little while due to frustration, it unfortunately has not magically solved itself.
Here goes:
I use fcp 5.1 on a macbook pro
In one specific project that I am working on (I mention this because the issue at hand only happens for this project) I have matted my footage to 2:35.1 using the widescreen matte.
As I have always been able to do in the past with other projects and even this one, I adjust the orientation of the video within the matte guidelines for optimum framing. Often, vertical adjustment has been needed within a specific shot and I, in any normal circumstance, would simply key frame multiple points so it would be able to change in the shot.
What happens is this: I set the vertical adjustment for the different points I want at the different frames I need and, while the little render bar at the top of the sequence turns green. I'm still able to play the video while it's green, and I'm able to see that my key frames worked. However, when I render it, the key frames reset and none of my changes are visually in place. I say visually, because when watching the rendered video, it appears to be back where the video originally started before I did any adjustments whatsoever. In the filters however, the numbers that I had set the vertical adjustment to still read the same, and the key frames still look like they exist.
If I repeat the process, the render bar over the footage goes green again and it looks like my key frames may actually work. But as many times as I repeat this process, as soon as a I render, the video resets.
I've tried trashing my prefs. Many times.
I've delete all 85 gigs of render files and re-rendered.
I've copy pasted the sequence into a new sequence, I've started a new project....I just can't figure it out.
Please please please, any help or advice would be phenomenal! I appreciate your time.
Jacob
p.s. if you'd like to see the movie we're trying to get done you're welcome to check out the trailer at: www.myspace.com/thefaithfulmovie
Thanks!
MacBook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.6)

It is quite common for the results of a filter to look different when viewed as a preview than they do when fully rendered. For instance, a feathered shape mask often looks dramatically less feathered once rendered. This therefore requires continual mini test renders while making filter adjustments in order to compensate for this difference. Are your keyframes having ANY effect, or are they completely ineffective? You could check this by setting extreme values temporarily.
Personally, I find that placing a black slug with a Shape Mask applied in the topmost layer of my timeline to be a wonderfully effective way to create a widescreen matte. The position of the underlying clips can then be vertically adjusted by simply moving them to a new position.
Good luck,
Zap
Dual 2 GHz Power Mac G5 / 2 GB Ram Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Looping Footage Pauses On Last Keyframe Before Executing gotoAndPlay("loop");

Hi,
Using Flash CS5... I have a 6 second movie I need to continuously loop from the half-way point out, after it plays through once.
I've used the gotoAndPlay("loop"); script to loop it... and it sort of works. But only sort of. Unfortunately, there's a distinct pause on the last keyframe before it loops each time, which destroys the essential flow of the animation.
It can be viewed here: http://vivalasvacations.com/108/W2U/W2UComp06(LOOPED).swf
The globe pauses after one revolution before it repeats.
Does anybody have any suggestions as to how I might rid this project of the dreaded pause? Perhaps another method of looping is available which would render things more smoothly?
Thanks,
Steve

Assuming your spinning globe is a MovieClip out of FLVPlayback, add ActionScript like the following just inside of it:
this.SpinningGlobe.addEventListener(VideoEvent.COMPLETE, completeMovie_handler);
SpinningGlobe.play();
function completeMovie_handler(event:VideoEvent):void {
event.currentTarget.seek(0);
event.currentTarget.play();
Where SpinningGlobe is the name of the above MovieClip instance.
If you are exporting for Flash Player 10.2. see this thread.
UPD: Nope. I was playing around with it for a while, an abrupt pause at the end of the movie is always here. It's almost unnoticeable on a thumbnail-like frame size I used to exploit, but becomes prominent once the frame size increases. Therefore, I would be interested in a solution as well.

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