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Austin31933416p2q4
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April 3, 2024
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Is it possible to get an Adobe Stock video with a transparent background

  • April 3, 2024
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Hey all, is it possible to get a version of an Adobe Stock video with a transparent background. I want to purchase the license for this video: Oleh photos, images, assets | Adobe Stock  but we want to drop it onto a differnet colour backdrop? Screenshot of video attached. 

We have a brand gradient colour that we'd like to put in the background without effecting the appearance of the multicolour animated brain in the video, so we were hoping to purchase a version with no background colour. 

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Nancy OShea
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Nancy OSheaCommunity Expert
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April 3, 2024

The asset is what it is.  If it's not what you need, consider another asset.  But honestly, video with transparency is kind of rare.

 

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
Abambo
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April 6, 2024
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But honestly, video with transparency is kind of rare.

 

By @Nancy OShea

For a 3D render, it's easy to do. You could also imagine green/blue screen assets, where the video creator did the hard work of masking. But it's what it is. Adobe officially does not support a codec with an alpha channel.

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer
Abambo
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AbamboCommunity Expert
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April 3, 2024

It's not possible to get this video with the background removed.

 

Adobe does not support officially codecs with an alpha channel support. But they get accepted into the database and when they have an alpha channel, it will work fine on the 4k video. The HD video, however, will be generated by Adobe, and during that process, the alpha channel gets lost. This asset does not mention the alpha channel, however.

 

Some contributors created a video, with half of the video was the content and the other half was the alpha channel, that works fine too. But this asset does not provide the alpha channel as a separate sequence, neither.

 

As it is a 3D render, it should be possible to provide the alpha channel, but there is no option to contact the creator and to ask for that.

 

Your only options would be to create your own mask, based on the asset's luminosity, or find a similar asset mentioning the alpha channel and licensing the 4k asset.

 

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer
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