{"id":56428,"date":"2013-11-27T11:03:38","date_gmt":"2013-11-27T09:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=56428"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:00:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:00:28","slug":"microsoft-research-releases-gif-like-video-loop-maker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/microsoft-research-releases-gif-like-video-loop-maker\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Research releases GIF-like video loop maker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/features.en.softonic.com\/b\/microsoft-research\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Microsoft Research<\/strong><\/a> has released a video maker called &#8216;<strong>Automated video looping with progressive dynamism<\/strong>&#8216;. It&#8217;s designed to make 5 second loops from video, but is not a GIF maker.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike most generated GIFs, which are simple loops of video, the Automated video looping with progressive dynamism app allows you to choose which areas of the video you want to animate, and which you want to keep still. At least, that&#8217;s what Microsoft Research&#8217;s program promises. The download comes with two apps, a viewer and creator. You can view sample videos easily with the <strong>VideoLoopView<\/strong> app, but we couldn&#8217;t get the <strong>VideoLoopCreate<\/strong> app to run (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2013\/11\/25\/microsoft_automated_video_looping_with_progressive_dynamism\/\">other sources<\/a> have reported the same).<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft released a video showing off what VideoLoopCreate and View can do, and how the results are better than typical looping GIFs, that you can see below.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of Brightcove Player --><\/p>\n<div>\nDefault player\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\nBy use of this code snippet, I agree to the Brightcove Publisher T and C \nfound at https:\/\/accounts.brightcove.com\/en\/terms-and-conditions\/. \n--><\/p>\n<p><object><\/object><\/p>\n<p><!-- \nThis script tag will cause the Brightcove Players defined above it to be created as soon\nas the line is read by the browser. If you wish to have the player instantiated only after\nthe rest of the HTML is processed and the page load is complete, remove the line.\n--><br \/>\nbrightcove.createExperiences();<\/p>\n<p><!-- End of Brightcove Player --><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft Research, as its title suggests, is the research lab of Microsoft charged with developing ideas for future Microsoft products. Among other things, Microsoft Research is responsible for the bizarre <a href=\"http:\/\/songsmith.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Songsmith<\/strong><\/a> app, which automatically generates music to accompany your voice.<\/p>\n<p>Automated video looping with progressive dynamism is an interesting idea, but as version 1.0 doesn&#8217;t seem to run on most Windows PCs, we&#8217;ll have to wait and see if it develops into a useful app.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/research.microsoft.com\/en-us\/downloads\/d02f3198-7896-45eb-89e8-5a75859b67c8\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Download the app from Microsoft Research<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h4>RELATED STORIES<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/microsoft-promises-to-fix-skype\">Microsoft promises to fix Skype<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/rumor-aol-in-talks-to-sell-winamp-to-microsoft\">Rumor: AOL in talks to sell Winamp to Microsoft<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/flipboard-for-windows-8-1-released\">Flipboard for Windows 8.1 released<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/h4>\n<p>[Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/research.microsoft.com\/en-us\/downloads\/d02f3198-7896-45eb-89e8-5a75859b67c8\/\">Microsoft Research<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Research has released a video maker called &#8216;Automated video looping with progressive dynamism&#8216;. It&#8217;s designed to make 5 second loops from video, but is not a GIF maker. Unlike most generated GIFs, which are simple loops of video, the Automated video looping with progressive dynamism app allows you to choose which areas of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/microsoft-research-releases-gif-like-video-loop-maker\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Microsoft Research releases GIF-like video loop maker&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-56428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331740,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56428\/revisions\/331740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56428"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=56428"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=56428"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=56428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}