I have shot our learning host on green screen, keyed out the background in adobe premier cc and rendered a Quicktime file that imports into all my other apps with the alpha or transparent background fine but when I bring the same file into storyboard it comes in with the black background. Any clues or tips when it comes to importing video with transparent backgrounds? You can see this in the attached screen capture.
Thanks
Hello Maria,
Any updates on the Support of Alpha Channels in SL?
I do understand that SL supports and converts everything to MP4. My question is more centered around what is Articulate doing to help support its users by providing a solution to an issue that is over 6 years old?!
Hi Tony,
I can promise you, we are paying attention.
We are also working to better our feature request process. If the request is clear, we do submit them on the users behalf for the exact reason you mentioned - I would not want to share the same information twice either.
If the request is not clear or we are unsure of the use-case, we will still request that the user submit the request. We want to be sure that the need is clear when shared with the development team.
In addition, because we are watching and working to better advocate, we are pulling similar requests together to push them forward - which is why we encourage users to share their thoughts and/or feature requests.
I took a look at your profile to see where we may have dropped the ball with you, but I only see 2 posts. Do you have another profile perhaps?
We do appreciate your feedback Tony and I do apologize if you felt we were not listening.
I'd love to see this too. .mov files with alpha channels support would be great.
You would think that it make sense for Articulate to add a chroma keying tool to Storyline. This tool would be priceless for many, who want to import alpha transparent animations.
This is silly... We go from problems with transparent videos showing up in Storyline 2, to having the same issue in Storyline 3, and now we are moving into 360 with no known fixes just workarounds! What is the deal guys? E-learning is very important and the tools are only going to get better and better as we go but it feels like Articulate is being left behind because of issues like this alongside flash problems, and the list goes on. I was so close in moving over to 360 but now our team has to start looking at other tools because of unresolved issues that just stay in place from one version to the next. Very sorry to hear that you team is not listening to it's customers...
Hello,
i get very disappointed by reading this thread. I would love to use .mov files in Articulate with a transparent backround. Please, fix this in the future!
Thank you!
Hi Mark,
Have you tried mp4? I do green screen that same way you do with Premiere. That's my go to and works pretty well with SL2.
Heya Alex!
When you import the finished mp4 into SL2, the background is remaining transparent? Could you share your export settings?
I cannot seem to get an mp4 with a transparent background into SL2 without SL2 adding a black background.
Thanks!
I could never get it to work Jason so I added a graphic background in CC Premier before exporting to MP4
Hi Robbie,
This is an open feature request with our team. Our previous solution supported FLV files with alpha transparency in Flash output, which is no longer relevant.
This conversation is attached to the report so that we can share updates with you here.
Hey Leslie, this is great news. Love to hear things are still in an "open feature request". :)
Hi Maria - do you have an update on this new feature request yet please?
Thank You
