<p>If you have After Effects, you can set a file to loop indefinitely by right clicking the file and selecting Interpret Footage:</p>
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<p>But I suspect rendering out may take longer than premier for a long comp.</p>
<p>You may find that copying and pasting over and over in Premiere is quicker (ie paste two copies, copy those, paste four copies, copy those, paste 8 copies, etc etc) is quicker than using AE.</p>

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2021-09-02T10:54:55.567Z
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tomh
<p>I have a short clip, 10 seconds or so. I'd like to loop in/down the timeline to create a 6-hour video (for sleep music on youtube).
I can do this in Davinci with the Loop effect in a Fusion composition. Only thing is it takes a very long time to even pre-render and the CPU is maxed for 4+ hours (Macbook Pro w/ 16g).
Premiere doesn't require that kind of pre-render but I can't find a similar way of repeating. The only answers here are around copy/paste which would take a half hour just to do for this length of video.
Any ideas?</p>

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2021-09-02T10:45:59.273Z
I vote copy paste. If you [select all] first, then the number of clips pasted doubles with every third keystroke, so it won’t take long. Cmd-A, cmd-C, cmd-V, repeat…. After ten cycles, you’re pasting over a thousand clips. No question, it’s faster than using Fusion.
Jason Conrad
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2021-09-02T10:48:49.560Z
You could also always try to loop your player instead.
Jason Conrad
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Repeating/looping a clip in the timeline
Alec Uitti
# Repeating/looping a clip in the timeline

(Asked by: username_0 on 2021-09-01)

I have a short clip, 10 seconds or so. I'd like to loop in/down the timeline to create a 6-hour video (for sleep music on youtube).
I can do this in Davinci with the Loop effect in a Fusion composition. Only thing is it takes a very long time to even pre-render and the CPU is maxed for 4+ hours (Macbook Pro w/ 16g).
Premiere doesn't require that kind of pre-render but I can't find a similar way of repeating. The only answers here are around copy/paste which would take a half hour just to do for this length of video.
Any ideas?

**Tags:** premiere, davinci-resolve

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: I vote copy paste. If you [select all] first, then the number of clips pasted doubles with every third keystroke, so it won’t take long. Cmd-A, cmd-C, cmd-V, repeat…. After ten cycles, you’re pasting over a thousand clips. No question, it’s faster than using Fusion.  
> **username_1**: You could also always try to loop your player instead.  

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### Answer by username_2 on 2021-09-02. Score: 0

If you have After Effects, you can set a file to loop indefinitely by right clicking the file and selecting Interpret Footage:

[![grab](https://i.sstatic.net/gneXb.png)](https://i.sstatic.net/gneXb.png)

But I suspect rendering out may take longer than premier for a long comp.

You may find that copying and pasting over and over in Premiere is quicker (ie paste two copies, copy those, paste four copies, copy those, paste 8 copies, etc etc) is quicker than using AE.


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