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simple way to confirm if a video has a black or transparent background


What is a method of determining if you are seeing a black or transparent background when working with videos without using anything other than the Windows OS?


Solution

  • I found an excellent method! In Windows, you can get a thumbnail out of your video by "zooming in" in the explorer. Make the icons for each file in the current folder as big as possible, like this

    an image called result.mov of a picture with fog over a transparent background and an image called result.mp4 of a picture with fog where the background is black.