Can I export an animation as a video with transparency in Krita?

[lornem]

Hi, cannot find any information on this so asking here.

I animated some leaves in Krita with a transparent background.
I want to export the animated leaves from Krita as a video (not separate .pngs) to use in Blender.

Q. What file format can I use since MPEG-4 doesn’t seem to allow alpha transparency?

[Michelist]

I believe WEBM (with VP8 and VP9 video codec) has alpha, and HEVC (h.265) should have alpha too.
But I don’t animate, and this may be wrong.

Michelist

[AhabGreybeard]

I’d have gone with animated .png (.apng).
However, I’ve just tried it with the 5.1.5 appimage and had a failed render.

5.1.4 and the latest nightly 5.2.0 prealpha render it ok with no errors but my old and cheap (free) video editor (Openshot) doesn’t seem to import it well.
What does Blender say it can accept?

[lornem]

Thanks I’ll give it a try.

[lornem]

Thanks. I tried .apng but it didn’t give me a proper file for some reason. I need to look into it more.

[Sketchy]

I’ve rendered as a GIF and that gave a transparent background, but it was a very short piece so I don’t know if there’s a length limit for GIFs.

[Michelist]

@Sketchy

I don’t know if there’s a length limit for GIFs

At least, I haven’t heard of any yet. The most extensive animated GIF I’ve ever seen has about 6 minutes of playtime and a size of ~570 MB, in a pretty high resolution.

Michelist

[lornem]

Thanks. I’m currently using a GIF and if all else fails I will default to that format. Thanks. Anyone try or know more about .apng format. I tried to save to it but it only gave me a weird unusable file.