How do I make a video animation with transparent background?

Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info
Wed Aug 10 00:46:28 EDT 2016


On Wednesday 10 August 2016 12:49, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:

> On Wednesday, August 10, 2016 at 2:04:39 PM UTC+12, Chris Angelico wrote:
> 
>> Animated GIFs support transparency.
> 
> But they don’t do full colour.

Define "full colour".

GIFs don't directly support 16-bit or 32-bit colours in a single frame, 
but they can support more than 256 colours:

http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/304/can-i-have-an-animated-gif-with-more-than-256-colours-per-frame


including what looks to the naked eye (or at least *my* naked eye) 
effectively like 32-bit colour.



-- 
Steve




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