diff --git a/packages/producer/src/services/render/videoFrameCoverage.test.ts b/packages/producer/src/services/render/videoFrameCoverage.test.ts
index 7ba284e760..9b018d17e9 100644
--- a/packages/producer/src/services/render/videoFrameCoverage.test.ts
+++ b/packages/producer/src/services/render/videoFrameCoverage.test.ts
@@ -155,12 +155,25 @@ describe("computeVideoFrameCoverage", () => {
     expect(reports[0]).toMatchObject({ expectedFrames: 90, capturedFrames: 90, ratio: 1 });
   });
 
-  it("still requires the full authored slot for looping clips", () => {
+  it("credits a looping short clip against the source portion — the delivered frame set covers every repeat (#2665)", () => {
+    // Regression #2665: a looping video shorter than its slot delivered all
+    // its source frames (extractor complete), but the pre-fix gate measured
+    // 90 unique / 300 slot = 30% and aborted. Every one of the 300 output
+    // frames maps to one of the 90 source frames — coverage is 100%.
     const videos = [makeVideo({ id: "loop", start: 0, end: 10, loop: true })];
     const extracted = [makeExtracted("loop", 90, { durationSeconds: 3 })];
     const reports = computeVideoFrameCoverage(videos, extracted, 30);
-    expect(reports[0]).toMatchObject({ expectedFrames: 300, capturedFrames: 90 });
-    expect(reports[0]!.ratio).toBeCloseTo(0.3, 5);
+    expect(reports[0]).toMatchObject({ expectedFrames: 90, capturedFrames: 90, ratio: 1 });
+  });
+
+  it("still fails when a looping clip's source extraction is truncated", () => {
+    // Fail-loud preserved for a genuinely-broken loop: only 60/90 source
+    // frames arrived, so the delivered set does NOT cover every repeat.
+    const videos = [makeVideo({ id: "truncated-loop", start: 0, end: 10, loop: true })];
+    const extracted = [makeExtracted("truncated-loop", 60, { durationSeconds: 3 })];
+    const reports = computeVideoFrameCoverage(videos, extracted, 30);
+    expect(reports[0]).toMatchObject({ expectedFrames: 90, capturedFrames: 60 });
+    expect(() => assertVideoFrameCoverage(reports, 0.95)).toThrow(VideoFrameCoverageError);
   });
 
   it("still fails when extraction is truncated before the held-tail source", () => {
diff --git a/packages/producer/src/services/render/videoFrameCoverage.ts b/packages/producer/src/services/render/videoFrameCoverage.ts
index 0d75a05474..3e8f1896d6 100644
--- a/packages/producer/src/services/render/videoFrameCoverage.ts
+++ b/packages/producer/src/services/render/videoFrameCoverage.ts
@@ -141,17 +141,19 @@ export function computeVideoFrameCoverage(
   for (const video of videos) {
     const entry = byId.get(video.id);
     const slotFrames = expectedFramesForClip(video.start, video.end, fps);
-    // Non-looping clips intentionally hold their final decoded frame when the
-    // authored slot outlasts the source (#2516). Coverage must therefore
-    // measure the source portion, while still requiring the full slot for
-    // looping clips and for missing extractions (where no hold is possible).
+    // A short source in a longer slot has a legitimate delivery ceiling of
+    // the source portion, not the full slot: a non-looping clip holds its
+    // final decoded frame across the tail (#2516/#2606), and a looping clip
+    // reuses its full source frame set per repeat (#2665). In both cases the
+    // full source *has* been delivered — the same 90 unique source frames
+    // cover the 300-frame slot — so coverage must measure source-source, not
+    // slot-source. A missing extraction (no `entry`) still requires the full
+    // slot; there's no delivered set to credit.
     const sourceDuration = entry ? entry.metadata.durationSeconds - video.mediaStart : NaN;
     const hasUsableSourceDuration = Number.isFinite(sourceDuration) && sourceDuration > 0;
     const sourceFrames =
-      entry && !video.loop && hasUsableSourceDuration
-        ? expectedFramesForClip(0, sourceDuration, fps)
-        : slotFrames;
-    const expectedFrames = entry && !video.loop ? Math.min(slotFrames, sourceFrames) : slotFrames;
+      entry && hasUsableSourceDuration ? expectedFramesForClip(0, sourceDuration, fps) : slotFrames;
+    const expectedFrames = entry ? Math.min(slotFrames, sourceFrames) : slotFrames;
     // framePaths is a Map — `size` is the number of distinct captured frames
     // delivered to the runtime injector, which is the load-bearing count
     // (some extractors report a total that includes cache-hit-skipped frames