Video with transparent background in Storyline 360

Now it's 2018, is it still only possible to use FLV Video to have a transparent background?
Is there maybe a change in near future possible?

Hi Oliver! 

Can you tell us a little more about what you're looking to do? Do you want to adjust the background of an existing video to be transparent?

While this currently isn't a feature, it's helpful to know what folks are looking for as we consider new features for the future. 

And to share your thoughts directly with our product team, you can submit a feature request here!

Thanks for that context, Oliver!

You'll want to use a third party tool to make the background of your video transparent before inserting it in Storyline. 

And as it stands now, Storyline supports transparent videos in Flash only. In that case, you would want to publish with Flash first and be sure the learners view the course in a Flash-enabled browser. 

Thanks for letting us know what improvements you'd like to see in future versions of Storyline!

Hi Tyler, 

Thanks for chiming in! While that's not an option in Storyline at this point, I appreciate you letting us know you have a need for transparent videos in HTML5. If we add that feature in a future Storyline 360 update, we'll let you know!

Hi Tyler,

What is the file type you see from Adobe Premier or Aftereffects? As Alyssa mentioned we support the FLV videos, but not in the HTML5 output, as it'll re-encode as MP4s. 

MP4/H.264 file types don't support transparency in the same way that an FLV video does with alpha channel. Another video format that does support transparency is the .webm video format, but since IE, Safari and Mobile Safari don't support that, we haven't included it in Storyline or Studio. 

If there is another file type or feature we're missing, I'd love to know more about it. Feel free to share here or send along details to our Product team as a feature request!

It's a clunky workaround, but you can drop the flash video with the transparency on your slide with whatever elements onscreen that you need showing through while it's playing and then do a screen recording to get an mp4. Then go back in and hide/replace all of the elements with the mp4.

For example, let's say you have a flash file of a flame animation that you want to have play on top of a building to make it look like the building is on fire. You can view the flash output of that slide and do a screen recording of it. Then go back in and hide/replace the flash animation and building and use the mp4 of the screen recording instead. This doesn't really apply to green screen though.

Hello, Teo!

FLV videos with alpha channel transparency are supported in Storyline 360's Flash output. Are you using FLV video files?

Honestly I'm pretty new to Storyline, and after working with it for a few weeks, I suspect the reason they haven't added this feature after so long is because video elements to not play well at all with Storyline's interactive elements.  I tried to get creative and create all my animation prior and then just use Storyline to overlay any interactive elements I needed and it was a disaster.  Really buggy and slow.  The second I changed out all the backgrounds for JPGs instead of movies it worked fine.

Especially now with 360 images being possible in Storyline360 video with alpha would really benefit the toolbox of elearning designers.

Adding in my vote also! Please Please... add this in.