How to change whilte to transparent in a video of something like this (mouse click animation)

Question

I want to be able to drop my mouse click like I have in the attached video onto a timeline of a screen recording and have it look reasonable. That is, I don't know what the background of the video will be. Sometimes it may be a browser, other times some other color or pattern.

Is there a way to change all white to transparent to the timeline?

https://www.dropbox.com/s/6p9pikzm4iw52be/m3-clip080-make-white-transparent.mp4?dl=0

Steve Griffiths · Accepted Answer

You can 'key' out the white background using a key effect. But won't work in your case as the edge of the cursor is also white, so that will disappear too.

You need to create a mouse click effect on a transparent background (with an alpha channel).

Here's one I created a few years back that I use all the time. Created in After Effects. Might be useful to you.

https://spaces.hightail.com/receive/xyrFwdzOak

Ann Bens · Answer

I have no idea what you are trying to achieve.

You cannot just drop a color on the spot.

The only thing you can make so called transparent is the background by setting it to Transparency Grid.

As a temporary workaround, you can use Ultra Key and key out the white but that is more than one mouse click.

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