Overlay HTML

[Elusien]

There are other solutions besides using the old (WebVfx-enabled) Shotcut version, such as using OBS Studio to record the animation and importing the recording into Shotcut. See here for more information:

What to do if/when WebVfx disappears

I am looking into possible ways of doing something with the filters. I need a few days to look into it more closely. HTML animations can be done offline and imported into Shotcut as video clips. I am experimenting with this at the moment and can see that we can get much more complex animations in clips for Shotcut (like the spinning cube and “the Writing on the Wall”. The main problem is Opacity. Total transparency (opacity: 0) could be handled using the Chroma Key filter, but levels of opaci…

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