Video with transparent background in Storyline 360

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?

A workaround is to make the background of the video the same as the Storyline slide. Then,  import the video as normal and place it behind other objects occurring on the screen simultaneously. 

It's not a perfect fix, but it's working for now.

Now that flash is no longer supported, does anyone know if there are any plans to support other formats (AVI, MOV) of videos with transparency?

Hi Andrew,

I appreciate you checking in! No news yet, but we are closely monitoring requests for transparent video support in a Flash-free world.

I'll absolutely notify you of any changes. Let me know if there's anything else I can do!

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 alpha
Quicktime MOV - Animation codec with alpha
AVI - 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. :)

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.

I'm evaluating Articulate 360 and was extremely disappointed to find this feature isn't supported. Quicktime MOV alpha channel support would be extremely helpful for some of projects I have in mind.

Adding in my vote - this feature needs to be in since Flash is no longer supported