Extend background video Loop?

I am a windows convert to Mac. All my NLE experience is in Vegas.
I'm doing a talking heads video, with a green screen key. I've got the key working in FCP and I have a library of HD looped backgrounds I want to use with it. Each background is about 10-30 second loop. In Vegas I could add it to the time line and simply drag it for the duration I wanted. Vegas would automatically loop it over and over to the end of the duration.
Is there a way to do this with FCP? If not and I have to cut n paste it over and over, is there a way to replace all the background videos at once with a new clip, or do I have to delete, and cut n paste all over again?

Not automatically, but if the bg clips were made to loop it's pretty simple to APPLE C the clip, place the playhead were you want the first copy then just APPLE V over and over to get what you need.
rh

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