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Exporting Transparent background

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Mar 09, 2023 Mar 09, 2023

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Hello!!

 

I was trying to create a video with a transparent background and then export it into captivate and have it over some things on the slide. However, in doing my research i can see that i need to export as a quicktime file with an alpha channel. That works, except, captivate can't read that file and wants to convert it to an mp4, so then that transparent background goes away.... any one have any idea of what to do? or have done anything like this before?

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Community Expert , Mar 09, 2023 Mar 09, 2023
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ok, now i'm confused...


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Watch this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VYpmeCET4U

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Mar 09, 2023 Mar 09, 2023

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Did you try Quicktime with the animation codec?

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Mar 09, 2023 Mar 09, 2023

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yes, that works until I try and import it into captivate and it only wants MP4. 😞

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Mar 09, 2023 Mar 09, 2023

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Prores?

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Mar 09, 2023 Mar 09, 2023

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What?

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What?


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Export using a ProRes preset.

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Mar 09, 2023 Mar 09, 2023

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the export isn't the issue, it's putting it into captivate.

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Put the ProRes export in Captivate.

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could you explain how to do that in media encoder?

 

Thank you for your help!!

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...except, captivate can't read that file and wants to convert it to an mp4, so then that transparent background goes away....


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I would start in the other end, iow check in the forum for Captivate to see if it even supports transparent video and if yes, check out the specs that Captivate requires for transparent video. When all that info is in place, come back here and get help on how to export video codec X to a file. 🙂

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that's the other hard part, the website isn't updated. It says it accept things like .FLV and .mov but it really doesn't when I try. 

 

It may not be possible because prores is a .mov file as well.

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Mov is just a wrapper, it is the codec that counts.

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ok, now i'm confused...

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ok, now i'm confused...


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Watch this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VYpmeCET4U

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