Blender - Rendering Videos With Alpha Transparency

A look at how to render transparency in videos.

[@LindaLouMercer]

I just came across your tutorial and want to thank you for sharing as it was helpful to me even 3 years later!!!

[@russwulf]

Thank you. This solved a problem for me since the render farm I am using appears not to support image sequence textures, and I wasn't aware you could use transparency in an actual video, much less how to do it.

[@Manim8]

No problem. Glad it was helpful.

[@peterjosvai9804]

brief and bright -- so fresh!! I realized that I loved this tutorial as early as during the intro :) and by 2:32 I've already learned how to... I've seen pretty many tutorials already, and this one I think is really remarkable -- thanks!!

[@ManicRuin]

This video helped me a lot. I couldn't find another videos explaining how to do this for videos. Thank you so much

[@Manim8]

+ManicRuin No problem Manic, glad it helped out!

[@miracleshappen4483]

One million likes for You. I love You!!! I've been looking for a way to use an overlay movie texture in the Blender Game Engine and I had no clue about the Quicktime option with the QT Animation. I've been looking for a way to fix this day and night. Thank you, thank you and thank you!

[@SMCDisaster]

you fucking beautiful god you! WHOLLY GOD! 3 hours of working and searching and you had the answer! I was missing the QT the entire time! I ABSOLUTELY LOVE YOU FIR THIS!

[@SeianVision]

You are the Master pal

[@GrumpyOldMan9]

what if you don't have H2.64?

[@IT-Entrepreneur]

Choose FFMPEG in Output, and on Encoding Container: Quicktime and Coded: QT rle

[@Arkane_Elder]

Thanks for the video tutorial, this is really helpful :D

[@collinmichaelson]

My problem with running h.264 as the format, is that it won't work with HItfilm 4. I heard you can do it in avi.jpeg as well. Is this true? I am trying to use a render as a watermark for my videos, and I use HF4 to do my editing etc.

[@fusingphil5032]

Awesome tutorial ! Thanks a lot :D

[@FishGuyTy]

Thank you so much!

[@mikefamey6809]

thanks a lot buddy! its a weird story but i actually am trying to learn how to put snoop dog into an alpha channel on top of videos for a mlg video and this worked! lol

[@Manim8]

Ha ha I don't judge. Glad it worked out! lol

[@Axolotroll]

Wow, this works, great!Now, I'm only asking... why do we still use green screens?

[@Manim8]

+Axolotroll : Redstone & Commands Blocks Cool! Well with CG animation there's not much need for green screens anymore, but of course with live action there'll always be a need. Glad it worked for you! :)

[@arkano01]

the important stuff begins at 1:14

[@jakovale]

You really helped me, thank y so much!

[@Manim8]

Hi jakobva, glad it helped :)

[@linn1133]

hey so, I did some research before I landed here and from in other sources I read that it only works on osx that way and I now saw that you're using windows but on my pc, I don't have the quicktime encoding option, like the others said. did you adjust anything to make that work?

[@Manim8]

Hi sorry I've only now been notified of this comment. No I haven't adjusted anything myself. What version are you running please?

[@Manim8]

Hey I have a theory... Maybe you need the Quicktime codec installed??? Have you got Quicktime installed on your PC? If not try installing it and then see if the Quciktime codec shows up in Blenders Encoding options :)

[@RemusGT]

Hey, i am rendering it now, but do you know how to import that to After Effects?

[@Manim8]

I'm sorry but I don't use After Effects. but I would imagine it's not too different. have a look around for 'alpha' options in there. sorry I can't be of more help.

[@RemusGT]

no problem, i figured it out

[@akenosan]

I wanna do an Intro myself and i want the text with the video together, does that work too? :^)

[@Manim8]

+ImAiiMz If you mean put a video behind the text instead of an image then yes that will work the same way :)

[@akenosan]

Field Of Vision yep i ment that, thanks :)

[@abala71]

Thanks :)

[@Manim8]

Glad it helped!

[@deathiscoming6201]

thaaaaaaaanks!

[@Manim8]

+:DeathIsComing No problemo :)

[@loicmevel]

I don't see the Shading tab...

[@Manim8]

What Blender version are you using? It should be there :/

[@loicmevel]

Field Of Vision Nevermind, I was in cycles render... Thank you for the respond. :)

[@TheKonfucjuszPL]

"you are you" XDDD

[@ym7310]

no work

[@Manim8]

make sure you have 'blender render' selected at the top drop down box and not 'cycles render' :)

[@olitworkowski]

doesnt render alpha

[@olitworkowski]

nevermind

[@Manim8]

lol