Transparent Background Video Support?!

Could someone send me an .flv file with alpha transparency that I can use for testing?

I think this should start being added to your high list of priorities Articulate.  Besides, you don't want to be "that" authoring tool company that "says" you're doing versus actually doing something about it.

Look at this data:

• 26 Total responses since 2 years ago
• 18 in the last year (69% of responses)
• 14 responses in the last 6 months (77% of responses within 6 months)
• 8 response in the last month (57% of responses within a month) [That doesn't include a post I made recently about the same issue before I found this one.]

According to staffer, Ren Gomez, "We don’t have plans for this feature right now, but we'll continue to monitor requests for it and update this discussion if anything changes."  I think the requests warrant Articulate actually doing something now.  Besides, why would you offer this as a .flv solution back in the day but give up on it as an HTML5 solution?  Is it that you can't make it work OR you don't want to?  Most of the solutions that the user community presents are created workarounds by the community.  Is there a published list of bug fixes that the community can see?  

Based on street estimates, Articulate has an estimated revenue of 75M, I certainly believe that you could take Justin Kliegman's advice and hire a programmer to complete this ASK for less than a 1/1000th percent.

SO, to the community, I encourage everyone of us to create individual "enhancement/bug fixes/improvements/feature suggestions" and see if the company actually listens.  The old adage "squeaky wheel gets the oil" should prevail here.

Here is the link for your convenience https://articulate.com/support/contact/feature-request

I've added mine just now...

I want to be able to add transparent video with RGB+A into Storyline using HTML5. Currently, the video is converted by SL and it removes the transparent BG. Adobe is sun-setting Flash in two months and this feature should have already been on the list to complete.

Good luck!

I got a transparent video to display properly in Storyline by inserting it as a webm file inside of a web object. This works well in Chrome on Windows. Can someone please check to see if this works in Safari or on IOS at all?

http://andersonelearning.com/demo/Transparent_Video/story.html

P.S. Thanks to W Gill for sending me a transparent video file to test with!

I've updated the project with a longer video (I finally figured out how to create a transparent webm file) and I showed how Storyline variables can be updated with the video playhead time and the video end status.

A few weeks ago I received an email with "news" from articulate, the updates were from last year. A well-designed application can be constantly updated and add new features, especially for a company as large as Articulate.

https://articulate.com/support/article/Articulate-Storyline-360-Version-History

Most of the new features are about things the community doesn't ask for, and they focus on fixing their own bugs.

How we ignore your request: https://articulate.com/support/article/How-We-Manage-Feature-Requests

The issues is really browser support as mentioned - which was one of the benefits of flash - common experience across browsers.

Can a javascript library like seeThru or similar be added to the SL export to increase browser support for alpha channel videos such as .webm and .mov? That's what is does.

.webm - current support - https://caniuse.com/webm

javascript library seeThru - https://github.com/m90/seeThru

I'm using Articulate Storyline 3 and also hoping to find a way of using video/gif layers with transparency. Have there been any new developments? 🤞

Hi Neil,

Thanks for the follow-up! We don't currently have any updates to share on using transparent videos.

I'll be sure to add your plus one to the list and let you know if our plans change on this feature.

We are also hoping to see this feature it's more than a little frustrating :(