How to loop a video in CapCut

CapCut desktop (Windows and Mac)

1. Create a new project and import the video, then drag it onto the timeline.
2. Drag the ends of the clip to trim it to the section you want to repeat.
3. Right-click the clip and copy it, move the playhead to the end of the clip, and paste. Paste again for each extra repeat. The usual Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V (Cmd+C and Cmd+V on a Mac) speed this up.
4. To smooth a join, open the Transitions tab at the top, drag a transition onto the point where two clips meet and adjust its length on the timeline.
5. Click Export at the top right. In the export panel, set Resolution and Frame Rate, then export.

CapCut online editor

In the browser version, right-click the clip on the timeline and choose Duplicate. Transitions are added by hovering between two clips and clicking the small transition icon. CapCut notes that free accounts may face watermarks or bitrate limits on 4K exports in the online editor, so check the export settings before you commit to a long render.

Fewer clicks for many repeats

Duplicating one copy at a time is tedious beyond ten or so. On a computer, build up in doubles instead: once you have two copies, select both, copy them and paste to get four, then eight, then sixteen. Five rounds of duplicating give you 32 repeats, and every copy is identical, so the joins all look the same.

Every copy restarts the clip, so the moment the last frame meets the first is where viewers notice the loop. CapCut cannot find that point for you, but a little care at the trimming stage hides most jumps.

• Pick a cyclical section. Waves, a spinning object, flickering flames or someone walking past a fixed camera return to a similar look again and again. Trim so the clip ends just before the moment it starts.
• Trim frame by frame. Zoom into the timeline before dragging the edges, so you can place the cut on the right frame rather than somewhere near it.
• Use a short, soft transition. A brief dissolve blends the end into the start. Long or flashy transitions draw attention to the join, which is the opposite of what a loop needs. CapCut only shows the transition icon when the clips touch with no gap.
• Watch the sound. A transition smooths the picture, but speech or music in the original clip will still restart at each join. Lower or mute the clip’s own sound and add a music track across the whole timeline if the jump is audible.
• Hold the camera still. Handheld footage drifts, so the first and last frames rarely line up. Clips shot on a tripod or a steady surface loop far better.

For a deeper look at choosing loop points, see the guide to making a seamless loop.

On short-form apps, a “loop edit” is usually not about repeats inside the file at all. The video plays once, and TikTok or Instagram restarts it, so the trick is making the end lead straight back into the beginning: a sentence that finishes as the clip begins, a movement that continues across the restart, or a final frame that matches the first.

In CapCut that means trimming carefully and often splitting off the opening second to move it to the end, rather than duplicating. Duplicating is useful when you want the same action to play two or three times before the app loops it, for example a satisfying moment repeated for emphasis. Our TikTok loop video page covers the trend itself.

loop.video is a free video looper that runs in the browser on a phone or a computer. The file is never uploaded, and there is no watermark or account. It is a quick way to make the repeated clip, which you can then bring into CapCut for text, stickers or effects.

• Tap Choose video on a phone (Select video on a computer).
• Press Find the best loop. It compares frames across the clip, picks the start and end with the smallest jump and labels the result Excellent match, Good match, Fair match or Poor match.
• Under Join, choose Crossfade to dissolve the end into the start, or Blend to soften a small jump without changing the length.
• Under Repeat, set Number of times (up to 999) or a Length such as 1 min or 10 min. For a vertical post, open More options and set Shape to 9:16.
• Tap Export video, then Share or save to Photos on a phone, or Download video on a computer.

It does not add text, stickers or filters, it re-encodes the video unless the conditions for copying the original frames are met, and a poor match cannot be made perfect when the footage never returns to where it started. A long result is capped at three hours. For counted repeats, the repeat video page goes into more detail.