The screens were going to sit next to each other, so we wanted some uniformity in presentation. In our case, this was a three channel installation - that is, we had three different videos playing simultaneously on three different screens.

Otherwise, I'll offer a few words explaining the reasoning behind what I did.Īshley Maynor and I recently put up a small video installation near the offices of the Arts Council of the Blue Ridge. The installation was done as a gratis piece of temporary public art, so we needed to keep the budget as small as possible. If you want to cut to the chase and learn how to do this, skip down. Looping full screen video is useful for, among other things, kiosks and video installations. This post will explain how to create a video that plays full-screen and loops repeatedly on a Mac. This is to help anyone searching for such a thing on the internet. And Automator's loop instruction in its 'play movie' actions don't work reliably. Quicktime X, or whatever it's called, can loop, but you can't save a movie as one that loops. (By the way, from my limited testing, it appears you still need QT Pro 7 - which is still sold as of May 2013 - to run this script.

Jessica kindly revised the automator script and offered it to me so I could share it with you.ĭownload it here: Revised Automator QT Movie Loop script SRF reader Jessica Barr corresponded with me in 2012 about how users of more recent versions of the Mac OS (10.6 and higher) might have issues with the Automator script below because QuickTime 7 is no longer the default movie Mac OS movie player.

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