How can I have the donuts in the video? When I render the video it doesn’t show the background, which is a video. Should I write something else in the compositing? I’m a beginner
How can I have the donuts in the video? When I render the video it doesn’t show the background, which is a video. Should I write something else in the compositing? I’m a beginner
Background image is still just a reference, import image(s) as plane(s) if you want the video in the final render. (but i do not composite in Blender, surely you can render it another way with nodes).
Blender’s compositor is very good and easy to use. Well worth the time spent getting to know how it works.
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It is not good, the inputs, outputs and properties of the nodes are all over the place and not self expanatory. Your mouse must run many miles to get a result, it does not even have live update on the viewer. I use BMD Fusion for compositing at the time. ( Of course a Blender user cannot avoid using nodes in some cases so it is bad but not useless )
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Hey @camy , good to have you here. From what i can see in the screenshot your setup should be correct. Maybe i am misunderstanding the problem here, but since in the background we can see the donuts composited over the video this should also be the image that is getting saved. You can also put an Output Node at the end of your nodes to set up where the composited image file should be saved. Could you elaborate what your prolem is?
@kyrgr Blender does indeed update every added node live in the compositor just as it does in shader nodes, or what do you mean with that? It of course cant compare to a dedicated program like fusion but its good for the basics.
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when i render in Blender the image or the video i can only see the donuts, not with the background. So…i need a program to put all together to have a final video( with the background and also with the donuts)? and which program should i use?
By the looks of things, it should just work as you have it set up.
quick example:
Can you post the file?
Randy
You can try doing this in a sequencer or a video editing software.
But, I think you have three layers, one is the movie clip(the glasses, flowers, etc) and the other is the donuts themselves. And you are missing the ‘background’ render layer
Have you checked if that render layer was properly enabled and set up?
i wouldnt say the backgroud is missing, since we see the result in the viewer, my guess is that there was just no shadow catcher set up so the background layer gets rendered fully transparent.
@camy you could do this in another program but with the setup you have shown us you absolutely dont need to. The problem here lies elsewhere, maybe you are only seeing or saving the one layer with the donuts. This depends on many things like your layer settings, render settings, all information we cant see right now. We can help you better and faster the more information we get from you, perfect would be the blend file itself, either here directly in the forum or via dropbox etc.
As a first step you can try adding the output node as i mentioned before to the end of the node network press Shift+A , then Search, then File Output
Then just click it and setup a place to render into
It could also be that you are viewing only the one layer, when rendered, make sure to have in the top right corner composite selected
If i select foreground there i also just see my donut
