Hi guys, Just wondering if anyone has had any luck getting a video clip with a transparent background into Storyline 360 and if so, what format did you use so that 360 maintains the transparency. ThanksDave

I don't mean to sound ungrateful for the awesome program Storyline is, but I've found threads from 8 years ago asking for this feature. Loss of Flash support has been knowledge for a long time now. This seems like such a basic feature, even POWERPOINT supports movies with alpha, so sad after all this time this hasn't been added. I use alpha with Powerpoint all the time, just seems inexcusable there isn't Storyline support after all this time and all these requests. See my attached file showing alpha movie support in Powerpoint. I see a ton of requests for an alpha video feature that I could very much benefit from as well. Video content creators can really bring their storyline lessons to the next level with alpha video and the lack of support really handcuffs us as content creates to just have such basic animation when we know we can do so much more. PLEASE add support for:Quicktime MOV - ProRes 4444 codec with alphaQuicktime MOV - Animation codec with alphaAVI - with alpha

Hi Justin! I appreciate you adding these details and sharing the need for this feature! I understand how supporting alpha video would be impactful for video content creators to elevate their Storyline courses. That's helpful to know! I've added your comments to our feature report to share with our team. I'll update you in this discussion when we have more information about supporting alpha video in Storyline.

Given the thread history - it doesn't necessarily look like another voice saying "My company needs this," will have a lot of impact. However, let me throw my vote in here. Given the types of eLearning we are doing, my company really needs to have alpha channel / Transparency supported by Storyline. :)

It almost 2020, when will Storyline 360 support alpha channel transparency other then Flash such as H.264, WMV,or QuickTime? I want to use Adobe Character Animate to create transparent animated video and import them into a Storyline project. Will this ever be possible?

Video with transparent background in Storyline 360

DanielBott
Community Member
2 years ago
Hi, I'd also like to see this feature added to Storyline. If it has been, please can someone educate me?
- Jürgen_Schoene_
  Community Member
  2 years ago
  the cause are the browsers - there is only ONE video format that is playable on ALL browsers -> mp4
  
  mp4 does not support transparency
AmyGtt
Community Member
2 years ago
OMG! This will be a game changer. Thank you so much. I will try it out.
BrendanMannion-
Community Member
2 years ago
Thanks Matt, if this works, lots of people will be very happy!
Matt_Kurtin
Community Member
2 years ago
Credit to Chris Hodgson of Discover Learning for his video on 3D Parallax Hover Effects Using Tilt.JS for the idea of using the Alt text to mark a shape in Storyline as being the position where you want the video to go. That video inspired me to start thinking about what other things could be done once Storyline elements could be located easily from JavaScript. Which is what led me to work on the transparent video solution.

If you try out this solution and run into any issues feel free to reach out to me directly. I am happy to help you resolve: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattkurtin/
RemcoKruithoed
Community Member
10 months ago
Can only echo what has been requetsed so many times, to stay in thouhc with new trends/learner expectations, this really needs to be supported
Marine_LWL
Community Member
10 months ago
Hello,

As well as all others, I'd like to chime in for this feature of a transparent BG. Or the ability to key out a green BG. I'm using the same BG as the slide in the video, but this is not ideal.
AaronMcConvi259
Community Member
10 months ago
Any updates for this thread?
ErickTorres-b7b
Community Member
8 months ago
Six years later and more people needing this feature. Does anyone have an update?
Nedim
Community Member
8 months ago
I found that Matt's Kurtin's post is a practical solution to this issue. I understand that removing an existing background color with tools like After Effects or similar and converting video formats can be time-consuming, but the effort is worthwhile. Once you've converted your MOV file to WebM for playback in Chrome, you can encode the same MOV file to HEVC directly on your Mac to ensure compatibility with iOS devices. Follow his tutorial on integrating multiple video formats within a single video tag in Storyline. Although I don't own any Apple devices to test whether HEVC playback is successful, I've attached a brief video demonstrating how WebM transparent video functions within Storyline.

transparent_video.mp420 MB
JoeShultheis-63
Community Member
7 months ago
So need this, as Justin V mentioned above. Need video codecs that have transparency (alpha channel) to be supported in Storyline. Please. Or include effects that emulate the need.