How to make a video overlay loop over entire storyline?

Hi guys

I come from a music background and I'm used to very easily drag out clips so they will loop over my entire project in Logic...

I can't find a way to do this in Final Cut Pro with video clips, am I missing something?

I use 10sec texture filter overlays over most of my projects, often several layers of them, and it would be handy to have these videos loop over everything else that I have going on underneath. I know I can copy and paste them 40 times but it's not very elegant, and if I then make adjustments on the clips underneath, it all gets jumbled up and I have to start over again with the overlays

Thanks

Welcome, Diana/Anastasia to fcp.co

diana.anastasia wrote: …… I use 10sec texture filter overlays over most of my projects, often several layers of them, … know I can copy and paste them 40 times but it's not very elegant, …

No, sorry to say, 'looping' is in Video a playback feature, no editing-thingie

The most elegant way would be to transform your overlays into a real 'effect' by using Motion5:
basically, you would add your overlays and filter settings there, perhaps publish a few parameters - and, applied into an FCPX project, such an effect would loop endlessly to your needs.

rethinking my reply …
I could tinker you 'quick'n dirty' such an effect, it would contain a 'box'/well, you drop your texture into, and then it gets loop.... if you like (?)

"...and if I then make adjustments on the clips underneath, it all gets jumbled up and I have to start over again with the overlays"

Put the first two in a connected storyline. Then Option-drag will duplicate. Select more than one to duplicate to make it faster. Then put them all into a Compound Clip. Not perfect, but a huge help.

Or create a template as Karsten says, set the end of the video clips to loop.

… as mentioned, quick'n dirty:
dl and unzip attached files, drag resulting folder into ~/Movies/Motion Templates/Effects.

In FCPX you should see in the Effects Tab tab a new one: ks_overlay
Drag it onto your clip OR onto an Adjustment Layer (if you want the effect over the whole project)



In the Inspector, the plugin offers a well, click on that and…



… you're allowed to select an 'Overlay Clip' from your browser. The preview shows instantly how it affects the clip.

I published a few b parameters, e.g. to adjust the size of the overlay… 
And, for sure, you can select opacity and comp-mode of the overlay:



Overlaid clips get looped every 10secs… to mention that.

Feel free to modify (in Motion) to your needs…

Thank you so much, using Effects sounds like what I need to do. I’m not familiar with Motion (I don’t think i have that plugin) so I’m gonna get my hands on it and go from there. I tried to do something similar before dragging my overlays into the Motion Templates folder but nothing happened, so I will follow your instructions and give this a proper try

Thanks

This is awesome!... THANK YOU so much for this resource... I can use it for many things!

Or you could go into After Effects where looping footage is trivially easy.

Motion does it super easy and very fast.