Problem with importing animated gifs

Hi i'm trying to use an animated gif in my project. Basically my after effects project is just a countdown from 10 to 0 while the animated gif spins continuously during the countdown. My problem is when I use the animated gif the background it is no longer transparent and the background is instead white. How do I make it transparent again in after effects? Next the animated gif is about a 2 second loop, it won't let me drag the bars to extend the time to 10 seconds. How do I loop it for 10 seconds?
These aren't musts, but if anyone could, help would be greatly appreciated:
1) For the text effect 'numbers' (which I used for the countdown effect) it always renders really shaky and bouncy when i preview it. Is that normal?
2) It has the time as 00:00:00:00 (type: timecode 30). How do I make so it only shows 00:00 ?
Any help would be awesome.
Thank you

My problem is when I use the animated gif the background it is no longer transparent and the background is instead white.
Correct. As a conmpositing program, AE requires proper Alpah transparency, not palette-based transparency. File must be converted to an image sequence with Alpha channel.
Next the animated gif is about a 2 second loop, it won't let me drag the bars to extend the time to 10 seconds. How do I loop it for 10 seconds?
Footage interpretation --> Loops
1) For the text effect 'numbers' (which I used for the countdown effect) it always renders really shaky and bouncy when i preview it. Is that normal?
Yes, it's normal if you are using a non-monospaced font. Use a suitable font.
2) It has the time as 00:00:00:00 (type: timecode 30). How do I make so it only shows 00:00 ?
Use multiple layers and effects and mask them out.
Mylenium

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