newbie question

Just had my first batch of clips approved and at the risk of sounding like a "total newbie", can someone tell me what the difference is between "vj loops" and "seamless looping"?

P.S. Great to see "familiar faces" here.

I have a few traffice clips that are seamless loops without being vj loops, but I agree it's almost redundant. ;-)

I think "vj loops" is technically a category and "seamless looping" a keyword from the keyword wizard, but I guess Marcus will have a better answer.

Yep, that's pretty much it. "Seamless looping" just means that there is a match between the last frame and the first frame, so it can be played back to back without any jumps. "VJ loops" on the other hand is just a way of categorizing clips - there can be some VJ loops that do not in fact seamlessly loop, and seamless loops that don't really qualify as VJ material, if that makes sense...

Anyway, we'll probably be changing the terms a little, so as to avoid confusion.

Thanks Shedli, I think I get it. Thanks to you too, Varius. Good to see you.

I also googled VJ loops to better understand it when I first came across it here. If I understood correctly, they are more often 'multimedia' size, or smaller than either PAL or NTSC, like 640x480 and are intented to be 'mixed' in an artistic way with music. It does seem like a slightly redundant category since a lot of larger clips here, rendered and otherwise could be mixed to music or used as backgrounds by a clever 'video jockey'.

vj = 'video jockey'.
Makes sense.
Thanks sean72.

VJ's normally use clips iwth a size of 400x300, or 640x480 if they've got fast computers. And all the frames are keyframes...
(Yes, I'm a VJ too :))