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Export WebM with alpha

Dan Dennedy requested to merge ddennedy/glaxnimate:webm_alpha into master

VP8 and VP9 support video with an alpha channel in a FFmpeg pixel format called yuva420p. I would like to export animation as a video to use with a video editor that does not support WebP, Lottie, or SVG animation, which is most. But namely for Shotcut of which I am the founder. :-) I want to recommend Glaxnimate to my users, and this will go a long way because most people want the animation to have a transparent background. All you need to do to use this is to export as video with a .webm extension. The default background color of transparent is fine for non-alpha videos: transparent black is exported as black. And if you change the color to something else and do not increase the opacity it exports as opaque in the chosen color.

Edited by Dan Dennedy

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