Non-looping animated GIFs?

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Hi all, newbie to video editing in general and Shotcut in particular here.
I’m trying to import a self-looping animated GIF file into a Video track. I can actually import it, but it only plays the sequence once and then freezes. Is there a technique to get it to loop and be treated as a single instance (so I can use Filters on it, for instance)?

I have tried looking through the forum topics, and I see that this (or something very like it) has been a repeat offender in several topics. Has the problem actually ever been fixed?

So far, I’m liking Shotcut a lot, but this could be a deal-breaker for me… Any suggestions?

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My suggestion would be:

  • Put the clip on a track
  • Select the clip
  • Press CTL-C to copy it to the clip board
  • Press CTL-V many times to pasted it over and over on the track
  • Apply any filters that you want to the track (rather than to each clip)
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That is, more-or-less, the conclusion I came to, thanks.

Can you possibly provide any pointers as to how to apply a filter to the track, rather than to each clip? I’m not sure I see how to do that…

Thanks again!

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Click on the track header and then the filter panels will be for filters on the track.

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This tutorial video may be of interest to you

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