Loop Audio file?

[Dee Dee Warren]

Okay I am doing a silly little project to practice, I have some segments of video of some flamingos I filmed at the zoo yesterday. I have some background music I want to use that is a short clip but I want it to repeat over and over through the whole movie. How do I do that? I have it dragged down into my audio 2 line but of course it only plays once?

Audio 1 is the natural sounds of the flamingos honking their heads off.

[Dee Dee Warren]

I am going to ask this at the adobe forums too. I wish this part of the forum was as active as the PSE area :(

[javier]

Hi
see if this helps, click on the audio 2 track to selected then place your cursor almost at the end of the track when the cursor changes from the arrow to a bracket click and drag until it snaps to the end of your clip this should do the trick, good luck

[ATR]

Hi Dee Dee and Javier,

Javier,

I have Premiere Elements 2.0, so I do not know if what I found is due to version 2.0 versus version 1.0 or me or other. I just cannot get that to work as you described. After I select Audio track, I cannot get that cursor icon that you mentioned to extend the audio track. In this case, I can extend the audio track using Time Stretch, only to change the original 1 minute music into a 1 minute plus horror movie sounding music.

Dee Dee

I did not response initial because I was not sure if what I do in these cases is THE way, and I was searching for confirmation. I saw the response that you got at the Adobe Premiere Elements User to User Forums where it was suggested that you just drag the Audio Media down to the Timeline multiple times until your Video is covered. That is what I do with very minor contraction adjusts. Just be careful not to distort the audio.

I had one more idea, but I am still working on ironing out the wrinkles. I will post it unless it turns out to be a figment of my imagination.

ATR

[Dee Dee Warren]

Yeah it won't let me do that either - I can copy multiple times, but it is a very short clip, even for a short video I have to coyp numerous times. It just seemed like there would be an easier way to do it.

[gmill]

Try this:

Select the audio clip you want to loop. Look at the bottom of the properties panel and you will see 4 icons. The second one from the right is the toggle for looping audio during playback. I haven't tried this yet, but it sounds like this is what you're looking for. Hope it works!

[Dee Dee Warren]

No that didn't work... and if you look under "more" when you hit that it says "loop during audio only playback" whatever that means. So bummer that didn't work.

[gmill]

That seems wierd. I was just playing around, trying to see if I could get the audio to loop. Like it says, the audio will only loop while playing back the audio only; it won't loop during video playback. Maybe I'm missing something, cause I can't figure out why anyone would want to do that.

[Dee Dee Warren]

Me either. That seems pretty useless.

[javier]

Hi
First let me apologize for the instructions I gave before they were not quite right, my bad I went the wrong way about this, since I didn't have a small piece of audio I used a whole song and cut it short then extend it what I didn't know was that PE2 didn't really delete part of the song just kind of hid it so when I extend it PE2 was only showing part of what it previously hid so again sorry.

[Dee Dee Warren]

No problem. I am still so surprised that there isn't an easy way to automatically do this.

[Juergen D]

Dee Dee,
You could try to work with audio editing software such as WavePad: http://www.nch.com.au/wavepad/masters.html

I have an older version, which was free. According to their 'frequently asked questions' it is still free.

Juergen