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  Video for web with a transparent background

  Posted by Patrick Birks on January 30, 2013 at 9:31 pm

  I’m trying to render a video that will maintain it’s transparent background. The developers in my office need a small animation that we created for a client to be placed on there website over their background. From my understanding It has to be a html 5 viewable video I normally give them .mp4 and a ogv for them to fall back on if the .mp4 fails. I know neither one of these 2 files support transparency so I’m looking for other ways around this. (Sorry if my wording is bad I know very little about coding and what can and can’t be done with it)

  I know I could use .mov but the file size gets to big, and apparently flv is no good as well. I need something that will be relatively small, they always ask for video’s to not exceed like 8mb.

  So my question does this magical workflow/codec exist

  Jeff Greenberg replied 13 years, 4 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Jeff Greenberg

  February 1, 2013 at 1:27 pm

  I don’t think you can do this short of flash.

  Take a look here: https://brianchau.wordpress.com/2009/04/08/transparent-flash-video-overlay-on-html-page/

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  Jeff I. Greenberg
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