Soon it will be September 1st. What does that mean? CreativePact will soon be underway of course. Akin to my very first CreativePact in 2010, this year I will be focussing on one piece of software: the much maligned Apple Final Cut Pro X.

To start my CreativePact quest I need some material. I intend to capture some of my own video footage at some stage, but for now I want to get started with something pre-made.

Day 1, and pretty much a warm up for me. First on the agenda was to become comfortable with Final Cut Pro X; particularly, I wanted to understand how blending modes and effects are applied to video clips.

Day 2! For the source material today I was looking for something with a static background and something simple happening in the foreground. I settled on this video of a chap playing the piano.

Today I didn't have time to fire up FCPX, but on my travels to work I had time to think about one thing: material.

Today I took on board my cogitations from yesterday and went for a video of better quality: John Giskes' Slow Motion. The resulting video looks much better, but I feel I'm beginning to reach the end of what this creative approach – processing using layer blending – offers.

Yesterday, I alluded to a new direction for my CreativePact project: the ever-playing video. Let me just explain what that is all about.

Endeavouring to create a forever-loopable video, I started with the music – I reasoned that it would make more sense to synch video to an existing music loop, rather than vice versa. So, armed with my music library, I cracked open TwistedWave and Logic.

And, sooner than I was expecting, here is my first looping video, called Intersection.

On the way to developing another looping video I began a new audio loop. And here it is, in raw form. It needs some sculpting and fettling, but could produce a nice contrasting basis for a further piece.

In an earlier post I mentioned that Oneohtrix Point Never's forever-looping video 'nobody here' was the primary inspiration for the current direction of my CreativePact. So why is it so good?

A spacey loop today (which is actually a loop within a loop), which I may add some video to later this week. Still not hitting the 'nobody here' attributes with this one though, particularly the recognisability necessity.

Because today I have been turfed out of my studio for it to be painted I have not had access to FCPX. But I have thought about what a video to yesterday's spacey audio loop might be like.

As this project moves forward towards its second-half I just wanted to give an idea where I might go with the video element.

Following a "weekend mulligan", here's my second looping video, which is actually a loop within a loop – a flux while Dr. Mark Hall worries about the detonation key around his neck, then the loop expands out to zoom beyond towards a pensive Dr. Jeremy Stone.

Two videos in as many days! Back on day 13 I was thinking about where this project was headed and mentioned filmmaker Martin Arnold.

At the beginning of this project I noted that a significant part of it was to jump in with Final Cut Pro X. It has been 18 days and I haven't talked much about the software, so here it goes (and here is why I have no creative results today).

CreativePact month ended several days ago, and I've had some time to mull over my experience this year. How one approaches the Pact is central to my thinking.