Which video formats support transparency? Once you upload a green screen video to VSDC (or any other video editor that has the Chroma Key tool), you can remove the green color from it, thus leaving the background transparent.īasically, the same rule applies to GIFs with transparent background – especially given that most GIFs are just converted videos. The only way to create a video with a transparent background is to have it initially shot in front of a green screen. Some people think they can take any video and just remove its background leaving the selected parts or object only. How can a video have a transparent background? You can download VSDC here.īut before we start, let’s get a couple of frequently asked questions out of the way. In the tutorial below, we’ll show you how to make a video background transparent and how to remove background from a GIF using a free video editor for Windows called VSDC.

If you have just a little bit of imagination and you know how the idea of transparent backgrounds work, you’ll be able to perform real magic tricks. Videos and GIFs with transparent background are very handy for applying special effects, creating custom transitions or animated title templates.

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