How to Import Videos in Unreal Engine 5.1
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- Ever needed to import videos into your Unreal Engine 5 scene? In this video, I show you a short and simple way to accomplish just that using the NEW Media Plate Actor in Unreal Engine 5.1. In addition, I also show you how to import files with an alpha channel, as well as get realistic shadows and photoreal reflections from your Media Plate Actor to further cement your video files into your scene and take it to the next level.
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UE 5.1 Release Notes: docs.unrealengine.com/5.1/en-...
Media Plate Actor Documentation: docs.unrealengine.com/5.1/en-...
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IF YOU STILL CAN'T GET A SHADOW TO SHOW UP TRY THIS:
Double-click the material as I did in the video and then go up to the top. You should see a button that says "Hierarchy". Click that drop-down and then click "M_MediaPlate". Now you should be inside the material editor for the Media Plate Actor.
Now, from the blue Media Texture Node, drag the Alpha (signified by an "A" on the bottom right-hand side of the node) into the "Opacity" and "Opacity Mask" inputs in the "M_MediaPlate" output node.
Here's a link to my material setup if you would like to copy it: imgur.com/a/gpJsrak
SORRY I FORGOT TO ADD IT IN THE VIDEO LOL NEWBIE MISTAKE!
I HOPE THIS HELPS!
Hi James. Firstly, thanks for the tutorials, they're very helpful and concise. Though I'm having an issue whereby I render out my sequence using the render media queue, and I'm noticing the shadow from the image sequence I'm using doesn't animate correctly. I have an image sequence mapped to a plane with alpha which renders without issue, however, the shadow doesn't animate along with the image. It kind of stickily tries to follow along but gets stuck. Any advice on what the cause may be?
Hi James, thank you for your tutorial. The shadow problem was solved with the comment you wrote. But I have another problem and that is that the effect of the environment and reflection is not applied to the subject. Thank you if you help me
is there a way to advance the frames on 2s 3rds and 4ths ? aka 12, 8 and 6 fps in a 24fps sequence ? and can i manipulate videos with the shader editor ?
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@@q-zrecords ? someone didnt watch the video lol
I was screaming when you clicked everything for lumen and reflection in the post-process volume even Ray-Tracing. Anyways, thanks for sharing this tip because the process of setting up videos in Unreal before the 5.1 update was very long and painful.
Absolute best and most to the point video I've seen on this topic, insane how much better UE5 is for video files than 4
So glad they added this feature in 5.1. Before to drop in prekeyed or stock footage was a long and painful process!! I use Blender and its a one click solution in there, (images as planes) so i am very pleased with can now do this in UE 5 😀
Thank you this tutorial just saved my school project, 10000x thumbs for this video
This is so much easier than it used to be. I've been putting off adding video because of the convoluted way it was done previously.
I appreciate your work i putting this together.
Thanks. Subscribed.
Thank you SO much for this! Can't wait to see if this fixes the issues I've been having with my project
Brother, THANK YOU FOR THESE VIDEOS.
This is an amazing tutorial and exactly what I needed, thank you!
Thank you. Straight to it as it should be.
So straight forward tut,
thanks for sharing.
This is exactly what I'm looking for. Thanks for teaching us.
Great tutorial! subscribed! Ive been using cinema 4d/Octane render and have just begun learning UE and you had my answer in under 3mins lol W
Very helpful. Thank you!
Thanks for your tutorial!
Very helpful,thank you so much!!!
Awesome video! I just bought a new PC for VFX and started trying to learn UE 5 to make music videos. My head is spinning from data overload trying to learn this stuff. Some people's tutorials are way too fast and complex for me. I'm a slow learner...lol. Thanks for making a simple tutorial. I'll probably have to watch it a bunch of times but it's simple enough for a noob like me! You got a sub from me! 😆 Keep up the awesome work!
That's awesome to hear! Welcome to the VFX and UE5 community :)
Glad I could help!
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DUDE thanks so much!
Going to try this out tonight. Was getting sick of the media plate shadow showing up. Thanks dude. :)
Awesome! Glad I could help :)
Yoooooo love this… gonna try and make some dope content with this.. ty very much ser
Thank you! I'm glad you found it useful! :D
the water material is amazing
More tutorials like these, please!
awesome video! thanks :)
Thanks for sharing James! This is really cool. I was not able to hear the audio after dropping an MOV file it played nicely but no audio. Any ideas how to get the audio as well?
Thank you for the video but, how do you change the lightning of the video? I have some videos on unreal engine already keyd, but is extremely dark, and in other environments is too bright.
Dunno why, but in material Masked mode is not working for me (black bg's still here), I chose Alphacomposite mode and it works
Thank you for this video!
Great video and great info, wondering if you can answer a question for me. I imported a mov file in, works fine in the sequencer play, but when I try to render it in exr the file freezes in the first couple of seconds. Also it works fine when I simulate, just won't render.
Thanks for your tutorial on how to add video in UE. I have a bunch of SciFi consoles I'd like to add videos to. So ... pre-existing geometry. The results vary. Sometimes on a cube it will play my video on all sides. On walls, sometimes it will be on the opposite wall side. Sometimes I'm just getting a black screen. What is the criteria to add a video?
Thank You. My Image media sequence is too bright. How can I fix it?
Thanks a lot for this amazing video. I'm just having an issue, only the first few frames are being displayed when i press simulate.. I didn't put the image sequence in the sequencer because i want to use the video in a widget.. would you have any idea on why this is not working ? Thansk a lot
Thank you for your tutorial, it was very helpful. I only have a doubt. I did understand how to cast a shadow from the media. But if i move my media video under a tree, while the shadow of the tree is normally cast on the ground, it is not cast on the video. The media is not affected by the shadow. I was wondering if it is possible to make the shadow cast on the video. Can you help me? Thank you very much!
hey @JamesLuke, first off, many thanks for the nice tut as it gives a very good introduction. However do you also have the issue:
I am using an png-sequnce with alpha. When I move the layer in the timeline so the video starts a bit later on, the "render" shows a big black box until the img-seq kicks in. Then everything is fine. But for the frames before, it shows a black box. Would be nice if you could help out here, liked and subscribed! :)
Hi James, great video. Do you know by any chance how can you get the exact same "transparency" / "no background" effect for a video instead of an image? Unfortunately it's not working the same as it goes for the image. Thanks
Maestro James!
I got my video in and now it looks good. NOW- they dont come in full length and would you know how to get the videos sound into sequencer? THANKS!!!!
thanks dude..
I have a bonfire video I want to add to the scene. Can i set it to blend mode 'scree'? Removing all the black?
Great video. Quick and to the point🤘🏻 Regarding to video playback. You gotta consider codecs. MP4, MOV, AVI are just containers. Your used codec and resolution of the video container is usually the reason for less performance. 3 videos using h264/h265 is heavy on cpu/gpu because it’s a delivery codec and it needs to decode while playing. 3 video’s using a videocodec that supports alpha or a Image sequence is gonna be less heavy on cpu/gpu but heavy on the disk you are playing them from. So if you use a 1 h264 video as a backdrop, your playback performance will go down hard. Just avoid delivery codecs and use a fast caching drive.
Wow! Awesome. Thank you so much for sharing - this is extremely useful information. I def need to do more research on codecs in general haha. Gonna be testing this a bunch more on my Batman Beyond project, so thanks so much again! Saved me some headache lol!
Hie, can you tell us what is for you the bast video codec for files and for images sequence ? Thanks
@@JDARRASVP Not sure what the best codec is but Epic recommends EXR files!
So i have the media file which in my level is two mp4 computer screens i created. However they're quite demanding as they're hacking glitchy computer screens. When i try render in 4k or standard, it seems to skip alot of the frames of the media files as if it cant keep up with the pace? do i need to import as an image sequence instead for it to read every frame?
Question…..how can you add a video as a plate (full background image)? Or solid color background?
Hey man, in my case I exported the png sequence with alpha from AE and then imported it to UE 5.1. The issue is that I see a black square on my screen and can´t see the footage, I only see the keying when I hit the play button. Besides that, the footage is soo bright, and weird! Please help me!
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Luke! Thanks for responing the laste time...I tried it again. Mov with Alpha. Unfortunately the alpha is still not working.( the media texture output node goes into opacity.) When I set blendmode to mask the node connection fails and goes blck. Also....I would like the layers like fog etc to be seen in front of my media footage in order to make it fit in and does not look articicial...anyway to achieve that? much appreciated!! BestMarco
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Hi, I tried to get the reflections on the water from my exr file but don't nkow what's wrong. Can you help?
I can't seem to add more than one media plate actor. If I bring in multiple videos like this it only ever plays one is that a feature or a bug or do I have something not turned on?
not shadow With Play { Shadow Is Freeze }
Trying to learn UE5 for vfx with Blender for a feature I am working on. Man it is sooo frustrating. Starting with UE5 to do an animatic storyboard with script reading as the audio. Run into the MiP problem. Went into bulk editor to reduce textures from 8K to 2K and 1K, still got the message. So deleted my landscape. Recentered all actors, cameras assets to 0.0.0 location. So will have to start again from scratch with a smaller landscape, I bet it was too large.
What about .mov with alpha channel into a widget? Cant get that to work at all :(
Hi, very useful staff here, thanks! I have a problem with the video quality which I drag into the scene the character is pixelated when making movements, I tried green screen MP4, and EXR files with alpha channel but the result is the same. The interesting thing that in the UE 5.03 I had not this issue, only in the new 5.1. The other thing is I wonder how to apply color corrections to the imported video like brightness, contrast, saturation? Any idea?
Interesting... I've never heard of that pixelation problem, let alone encounter it haha! I would say it could be the resolution/codec of your media, but since you said you didn't have this problem in UE 5.03 I'm not sur ewhat the issue could be. Is it pixelated when you render out in movie render queue? If so, it might just be a bug in 5.1. That's the only thing I can figure, tbh :(
As for color correction goes, I'm actually still in the process of figuring that one out as well! Right now my current workflow for that is a bit roundabout, but I've foudn it gets the job done. Here's what I do:
I take a screenshot or render out a quick clip of my environment, then I impor that into After Effects where I place it *behind/under* the media I want to import (ex. green screen key). Next, I apply all the color correcting effects I need to in AE to match the bg clip I imported from UE. Then I delete the bg clip and re-render the green screen clip WITH all the CC effects applied to it. Then I drop that in UE as a Media Plate Actor and boom - my keyed footage is now color corrected to the scene.
Like I said, a bit roundabout and super inefficient and I'm sure there's some way to do it natively in UE (or better in general), I just haven't found it yet. If you (or anyone else reading this in the future) finds out how, please lmk!
Does anyone know how to get the images to be affected by the lights in UE please? In Blender images as planes, the images are affected by the world lights, so they cast shadows and if for eg, a red spot light is shining on them, you guessed it, they are illuminated in a nice red glow :)
I can not get my mov to be seen inside of the cube, i am in 3rd person, is that my problem?
Hi James, thank you for your tutorial. The shadow problem was solved with the comment you wrote. But I have another problem and that is that the effect of the environment and reflection is not applied to the subject. Thank you if you help me🙏
Thank you so much! I have a question if you're still checking comments. I followed these steps and it works! However, when I close UE5 and reopen and/or don't use my computer for a few days, the video is just a black box the size of the plate and I have to redo all the steps. Any idea what I'm doing wrong?
Game changer!
In what program did you export the png sequence brother, I don't see the option when I export it to Unreal it comes out as if I hadn't removed the background and I exported it with rotoscoping from after effects :( :( :( :(
when i import my video the saturation is so bright and idk why does anyone know anything about this or having this problem?
When I drag my mov into folder it loads up but then when I drop it into scene or sequence it doesn’t play.. have you had this issue before?
Everything work but when I try to export with media render queue only my EXR sequence is working :( My shadow stay static
nice tutorial
Nice explanation. Love it! How can a movie be attached to a cylinder?
Hi, I take it this is the new method, and no longer need media plate? Great video! Do you have a tutorial on how to do this but with 3D camera track data from After Effects?
Absolute newbie here. Where exactly do I drop the .mp4 file? I've tried dragging it into content browser, sometimes works, but I get the red NOPE sign when i try to drag it from there into the scene.
TQ4this!
when i put my source it it plays good everything works but overtime he turn into a glowing white light lmao any known fixes ?
Have you ever set up a shadow capture?
Does anyone know why I am getting this error? I happens whenever I try to import video : Assertion failed: Type != ERangeBoundTypes::Open
Hello, good video. One question if I wanted to add a .mov video with transparency in alpha, can I?
Yes, you can!
wow this is new
Rad! Can you do a video on color correction on the PNG seq in unreal? Also... Will 24 fps at 1080 work fine? I've done 4k 60 fps and it is SO SLOW to export a sequence in After Effects. Whats the recommended frame rate if there is one?
Yes! As soon as I figure out how to do the CC in UE5 myself LOL!
24fps 1080 should do fine. Depending on your machine, it'll run smoother than 4k for sure. 4K obviously will give you better resolution, but could be slower in the viewport. It'll be fine once you render in Movie Render Queue tho!
As for slow export in AE, that could potentially be bc of the specs of your machine. 24fps is usually the rule of thumb for all video tho, unless you're doing slow-mo. I don't think Epic Games has a specific recommendation for the fps of the sequences for the media plate actor.
@@JamesLuke haha they need to make an easier solution for coloring the img sequence! thanks for this video, the process seems much easier in 5 which I haven’t even tried yet
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@JamesLuke
Great tutorial, but have you tried in Unreal 5.3.2? Following your steps exactly to get a sequence of images with transparent alpha does not seem to work, even after selecting blend > masked for the material. (I tried multiple times with png, exr, tga with verified alpha.) It remains black instead of transparent. Any idea?
Actually, after trying your recommendation to @DigitalStaff, at least in my case, if I hook RGB of the TextureSample directly to Base Color of M_MediaPlate, apparently there is no need to reroute RGB to Multiply and then Emissive, and no need to modify the specular. 🙂
can you do a new one with all the steps
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Great video I love the water plane .. what textures did you use 😮
I believe it was some water texture from a marketplace pack I had imported. I can't remember which off the top of my head tho!
I cant Drag the Image Media Source from the Content Browser into the Viewport, any ideas ?
Are you sure you're in UE 5.1? This feature is only available in Unreal Engine 5.1
Great video! Thanks for making this. I'm just having an issue. I have a PNG sequence, but no matter what I do, I can't get it to ignore the transparency. It always displays a transparent area as black, even if I change the blend mode to masked. Do you have any idea what's going on?
Hmmm... Try this:
Double-click the material as I did in the video and then go up to the top. You should see a button that says "Hierarchy". Click that drop-down and then click "M_MediaPlate". Now you should be inside the material editor for the Media Plate Actor.
Now, from the blue Media Texture Node, drag the Alpha (signified by an "A" on the bottom right-hand side of the node) into the "Opacity" and "Opacity Mask" inputs in the "M_MediaPlate" output node.
Here's a link to my material setup if you would like to copy it: imgur.com/a/gpJsrak
Let me know if this helps! :D
@@JamesLuke Thanks a lot. That works great :D Appreciate your help, James. Subscribed!!
@@DigitalStaff Awesome! Glad I oculd help! Thanks for the support! Means a lot.
@@JamesLuke 😄Looking forward to more great vids from you!
@@JamesLuke Thank you very much
Thank you so much, very clear ! but when i import my exr, my footage seems way overexposed in unreal, i don't fugure why is that... Neither how to fix brightness of the image sequence... is that even possible ?
did you find a fix ?
@@tommyzimmerman2081 yes, Unreal engine is based on linear gamma curve, not 2.4. so first convert your footage from 2.4 to linear (depending on your editing software)...
Bro green screen is not render only render background please help
Your tutorial is very clear but for some reason when I do the same steps I get a black square, I tried to render in different ways both sequence and MP4 also AVI and I keep getting a black square, am I missing something in the settings?
Just put your element into a sequence then you will see your sequence without black square
Hey, thanks for the vid! So you showed that you have shadows, but do your shadows move according to the footage? I got this problem that in 5.1 they are not updating in real time (only if you move camera they are updating) so when render it in sequencer they are not moving appropriately either. In 5.0.3 I didnt have this bug and wondering if you have the same or am I missing something
Interesting. I've never encountered this. In my limited testing, the shadows moved accordingly. Have you rendered out the sequence using Movie Render Queue? If so and the problem still persists, I honestly am not sure what the issue could be. Potentially a bug with the new MP Actor? As of now, rendering using MRQ is the first thing I think of trying.
@@JamesLuke Apparently ray trayced shadows were turned off in the project settings. Thanks for the reply tho! Love
@@AlivekMT Ahhh yep that'll do it! Glad you got it all sorted :)
Great video! I'm a bit confused though it may be a lack of experience thing, so please bear with me.
When I create a new image media source, drag it into my project and push play on the project it stays black with no video image, pushing play in sequencer does the same. I am using MPEG-4 footage. Also changed physical materials blend mode with no effect. Lastly what level type would you recommend creating an Environment for specifically this. Was having build lighting issues with third person level design.
Thanks for the help, hope everyone is doing well and in good health :)
got the same prob. footage stays black. did you manage to solve this by now?
I cannot get that media plate to cast a shadow. It defaults to Translucency for Blend Mode and when I change it to Mask, it's completely opaque. Any ideas?
Hmmm... Try this:
Double-click the material as I did in the video and then go up to the top. You should see a button that says "Hierarchy". Click that drop-down and then click "M_MediaPlate". Now you should be inside the material editor for the Media Plate Actor.
Now, from the blue Media Texture Node, drag the Alpha (signified by an "A" on the bottom right-hand side of the node) into the "Opacity" and "Opacity Mask" inputs in the "M_MediaPlate" output node.
Here's a link to my material setup if you would like to copy it: imgur.com/a/gpJsrak
Let me know if this helps! :D
I figured it out.. they did not plug the alpha into the Opacity Mask on the new default media material so when you change it to mask, it has no alpha. I just made a new media parent material and put the alpha out of the image sequence into the Opacity Mask to make this work.
Any luck getting DOF with video textures? This has been my only complaint when it comes to video textures in realtime in unreal. Hoping this gets fixed or hoping someone else knows how to work around this. I tried setting the video material to a lit and what not but no avail
Interesting! I haven't tried it with DoF yet! But I imagine I will be soon for future projects. If I end up running into the same issue and figuring it out. I'll def lyk! :)
@@JamesLuke I think I forgot to check render before DOF in the material settings. So if you run into that issue later thats why. That should fix the issue.
@@owenjenkinsofficial Ah! That makes sense! Thanks for letting me know :)
Drag and drop doesn't work. I don't see a "media plate" or any similar Place Actor or setting in Unreal for this.
Great tutorial, but why doesnt the movie render quee render it. It just renders black even tho it looks good in sequencer.
Interesting... Hmmm..
Over on the details panel check the box that says "auto play" and then try and render it out. If that doesn't work, make sure the track isn't muted in sequencer. Also, try right-clicking it in sequencer and making sure the checkbox next to "Active" is checked.
Those are the solutions I can think of off the top of my head. If none of those work, let me know and I'll tinker around myself and see what the issue is :)
Why is your second example an "image" and NOT a Video? Was that on purpose?
It's a PNG sequence with alpha. Each image in the sequence is a single frame, making up a video.
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After this is created can this be imported to use in UEFN?
I'm not sure, but it's worth a test! I haven't used UEFN too much but I want to get into it more.
Hey Luke, great video! I'm unable to drag my .MOV file from my content browser into my scene the way you did it in the first step. When I open the clip details, it does say "the selected media file will not get packaged because its path points to a file outside the projects /Contents/Movies/ directory. I did drag the file into Contents/Movies so not sure what's up! Any ideas?
Are you using Unreal Engine 5.1? Silly question I know but just wanna make sure!
@@JamesLuke oh.. I'm not.... :/ I'm using 5.0.3!
@@coreymartinez4330 That would be why haha! This feature is only available in 5.1
is there a way of intensifying the light so it becomes a light source?
Try going in the material settings and adding a parameter node to boost the emission intensity!
However, to really help it cast light in the scene, you can try adding a colored point light to match the color of your gif. If you need to animate the color, you can do so in sequencer
I'm new to Unreal and I'm running into an issue with the alpha channel part. When I drag and drop the image media source and hit simulate, it already has the alpha channel with no shadows and reflections. Once I do the step with opening up the material and check blend mode and click mask, now I no longer have the alpha channel but with shadows and reflections. What could I be doing wrong?
Try this:
Double-click the material as I did in the video and then go up to the top row. You should see a button that says "Hierarchy". Click that drop-down and then click "M_MediaPlate". Now you should be inside the material editor for the Media Plate Actor.
Now, from the blue Media Texture Node, drag the Alpha (signified by an "A" on the bottom right-hand side of the node) into the "Opacity" and "Opacity Mask" inputs in the "M_MediaPlate" output node.
Here's a link to my material setup if you would like to copy it: imgur.com/a/gpJsrak
Hopefully this fixes the alpha channel issues you're having. Let me know if this helps! :D
@@JamesLuke Thank you for the reply! I'm not sure how you got the "emiss int" and the value nodes, I can't find them when I type it in.
@@dxlphdayana8360 Ah! Those are a custom parameter node setup I made.
Press 1 on the keyboard and click at the same time. That'll create a constant. Basically just a number. At the tip top of the node, right click the little arrow and click "convert to parameter". Then in the panel all the way to the left you can adjust the min and max values. I usually just do a min of 0 and max of 1. It varies tho depending on what you're doing. If you want more emission you can always just crank it as high as you want. Then I search for a "multiply" node and plug in the RGB of whatever I'm wanting to emit in the B input and then the constant/parameter that was just made in the A input. Then I take the output of the multiply node and put that in the Emissive Color input in the material.
That should hopefully do the trick!
@@JamesLuke Thank you so much, finally got it to work! I appreciate you so much you taking time out of your day to help me
I have used img media source in U5.1 and video opened very bright, almost white (( Do you know how to fic it?
I've never had that problem before so I'm not quite sure how to fix it :/ I'm sorry!
Hey man, I got the same problem, you found a fix yet?
James! Thank you! My footage (exr- sRgb 4k ) lloks always to bright when i import it into a scene Ue 6.1… is there a way to change luminance? I think i tried everything…😩 thanks again
Interesting...
Try changing the brightness value of the actual texture in Unreal. Either that or just lower the exposure of your footage in an editing software and re-render then re-import!
Thank you James! I try that
It’s because material node is emissive. Try disconnect emissive and point texture to base color!
Will try! Thank you !! Much appreciated!
@@ferlaur113 THANK YOU! Will try!
I try to do it with EXR sequence but impossible to get reflection if I pass my MI_MediaPlate Blend Mode to Translucent ! For tha shadow, I follow your tuto and impossible to get it. Did I miss something ?
Try this:
Double-click the material as I did in the video and then go up to the top. You should see a button that says "Hierarchy". Click that drop-down and then click "M_MediaPlate". Now you should be inside the material editor for the Media Plate Actor.
Now, from the blue Media Texture Node, drag the Alpha (signified by an "A" on the bottom right-hand side of the node) into the "Opacity" and "Opacity Mask" inputs in the "M_MediaPlate" output node.
Here's a link to my material setup if you would like to copy it: imgur.com/a/gpJsrak
Let me know if this helps! :D
@@JamesLuke Thanks for your answer. I try this, I also try to used th M_MediaPlateCC as material. This one has already the pin opacity connected but in all cases, I don't get reflection. I have the feeling that reflection don't work with translucent. In your video, you used masked but not translucent if I remember. Did you succed with translucent material to get reflection ?
@@JDARRASVP Make sure you have the high quality translucency reflections option ticked. Also make sure you're using unreal engine 5.1! You should also double check your project settings and enable high quality transluceny reflections there. As well as Use Hardware Ray Tracing when available. That might help.
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my video (.MOV) always looks washed out, like specular is too high! Not sure what settings I need to change to fix this! Also is there any function to make the image plane to always face camera do you know please?
Hmmm. Try going into the material settings, adding an integer node by holding down "1" and then clicking. Type 1, or 0, and then connect the node to the specular input. Hopefully, that might fix the weird specularity?
If it's the actual colors of the video, I'm currently in the process of figuring out if there's a way to do CC work in UE5. If I do, I'll def make a video about it :)
@@JamesLuke Thanks so much for replying James! Will give that a try, thanks again!!
@@JamesLuke thank you will give this a try.
Tried this James but to no avail. When I click on the material there is only option for parent media material and doesn't seem to work. Also do you find when using image planes, every few mins it freezes? I have a pretty good PC (32gb RAM and 2080ti) so I don't think its my PC that's slow plus UE5 and Blender run great, just when I use media plates in unreal, it seems to freeze frequently!
When rendering, my video files always glitch the video never plays correctly! All other 3D assets are rendered flawlessly with a glitchy and laggy video in the background. How do I fix this?
same, did you find a fix?
@@DylanVanRoost I had to render everything as a PNG sequence WITHOUT the video in the background. Then I composited the two together in after effects. You will probably need to look up how to render as a PNG sequence because I forgot lol.
@@itsLukeRyan just found another fix, you need to enable everything inside of media (project settings\plugins\WMF Media:
Allow non standard codecs
Low latency
Hardware accelerated video decoding
@@DylanVanRoost thanks!
I'm so stupid. I wasn't getting any shadows because of one simple thing, not saving. In Blend Mode, I changed it to masked, and I never saved. I just closed it. I saved, and BAM, shadows. Thanks dude 👍🏿
Hmm now I just need a pc that can run this software
UE5 is pretty hardware friendly! Although some features do require beefier graphics cards.