Hi Ryan,
I'm sorry you feel that we're not listening, as that's not ever something we want you to think! Our team is focused on fixing bugs as soon as possible, listening to ideas and feedback about enhancements, all with the goal of providing the best tools we can. You shared a few things that I hope I can clear up here!
- There was an issue with FLV alpha transparent videos in Storyline 2, where they'd show up without the transparent background. We fixed that in Update 5 of SL2 (we're now on Update 12).
- We support FLV files with alpha transparency in our Flash output and the Articulate Mobile player (all Storyline versions). The nature of those files doesn't allow for transparency to carry over to our HTML5 output. To make sure your courses will still play if you've included them we'll reencode those files during publish for HTML5 output to an MP4.
Some users have asked about other file types with transparency:
- The MP4/H.264 file type does not support alpha channel (not specific to Articulate tools)
- The .webm video format is an option for transparency, but we don't support that based on their lack of browser support. Essentially if you were using that file it wouldn't work in IE, Safari(mobile or desktop) and have less than awesome results in Firefox.
If there is another file type or feature we're missing, I'd love to know more about it.
We see lots of requests and ideas here in the forums and also through our feature request form. Feel free to use the option that works best for you! Also, here's a look inside how we manage all of the feature ideas we see!
Let me know if I can help with anything else. 🙂