Holding and looping your animations
Sometimes you may just want a video clip to repeat itself over and over again. At other times, you may need to hold the end frame of a clip or an action in the middle of the clip. We can use the Retiming behavior to achieve these desired results.
Getting ready
Locate a clip you would like to adjust the look of on your computer. Launch Motion. Select a Motion project with settings suitable for your footage. Choose Open. Press Command + 1 to go to the File Browser. Navigate to your footage and import it into your project. Play back your project. Find a frame you want to hold and move to that frame.
How to do it...
Select the clip in the Layers tab and go to your gear icon underneath the Canvas. Choose Hold from under Retiming.
Play back your project. The Hold Frame behavior gets added right where your playhead is and lasts to the end of your project. Let's make it only 1 second. Select the Hold Frame behavior and use the Shift + I shortcut to move to the in...
