How to Import Videos in Unreal Engine 5.1

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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[JamesLuke]

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.


SORRY I FORGOT TO ADD IT IN THE VIDEO LOL NEWBIE MISTAKE!
I HOPE THIS HELPS!

[kennetherhabor]

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.

[aboutthenet]

Finally, a professional, accurate and concise tutorial. Took a week to find you, but well worth the time since now we're not looking anymore

[metafuel]

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.

[ukmonk]

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 😀

[Daniel-becj]

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

[MarkHoopesMusic]

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!

[MultiMam]

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.

[ribkanatalia]

Thank you this tutorial just saved my school project, 10000x thumbs for this video

[jacobdesioreviews]

This is an amazing tutorial and exactly what I needed, thank you!

[DanielScottFilms]

This is exactly what I'm looking for. Thanks for teaching us.

[Wazulon]

Going to try this out tonight. Was getting sick of the media plate shadow showing up. Thanks dude. :)

[marknoodles]

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!

[robertfleming]

Thank you SO much for this! Can't wait to see if this fixes the issues I've been having with my project

[FPChris]

Thank you. Straight to it as it should be.

[saemranian]

So straight forward tut,
thanks for sharing.

[yuckvision]

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

[CaptainGrochat]

Everything work but when I try to export with media render queue only my EXR sequence is working :( My shadow stay static

[StaxKarratGang]

love this… gonna try and make some dope content with this.. ty very much ser

[jigarthakornugar]

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