How To Make a Video Material In Unreal Engine 5

In today's tutorial, I will show you how to make a video material that you can play in your Unreal Engine projects, whether you'll be using it for TV, a monitor, or in-game video ... etc

There is also a tutorial, inside this tutorial, on setting important shortcuts for isolating your objects in unreal!

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Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
00:16 - Getting Started
00:37 - Creating Our Media Assets
01:57 - Enable Electra Plugin
03:03 - Applying the Material
03:32 - Make the Material Emissive
04:27 - Adding Another Media Asset
04:58 - Another tutorial?
05:39 - Editing The Hotkeys
06:27 - Thanks for 30k!!

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[DEEP-WEB]

You saved my life. Nowhere else did anyone mention Electra video player

[henrijs]

only works when the media player is open. turns to black when i close it.

[shrekv]

3:06 how did you put this texture in the tv? Is the screen a separate object or not? Sorry, i'm new to UE5

[JoshuaEiffel]

Thanks, the number of times I come back to these video material tutorials haha - this one is the most streamlined and easiest to listen to. Thank you! I've also used the new media plates in 5.1, but it seems to only work on the plate objects. Do you think it's possible to use a media plate on something like a sphere?

[temptor]

i can tell you put lots of effort into this. thank you for this great shader- keep them coming!

[apollogt]

THANK YOU SO MUCH! WOW, The others didn't know what they were doing so when rendering the video the video file did not play but your tutorial fixed that. do you have tutorials on building furniture? nice work!!!!

[VirtualRealityStudio]

Hi simon thank you for your clarity and your way of explaining things! this was very helpful, can you please tell me how can I turn on and off the TV in the level sequencer, more like having the material active and inactive replaced by another material so to speak. Hope you could help.

[redeye]

hey, so how do I get this to work in game? the media stops playing when I play the level and to get it playing again I have to relink the file and open it again in the media player

[stan]

Awesome tutorial, thanks! So I did everything but my screen is somehow not emitting any light onto the scene. It is just a white rectangle now, or the video, but no light emitting from the screen. Any idea what can go wrong here?

[derekheisler]

This was great! How I noticed you could only have to show when you played it in the other window. Is there a way to animate when this triggers in MRQ?

[davidlewis]

Great job! Can you show how to get your live screen within a project similar to how you showed how to get a video in a project (using new ndi for 5.o I assume). I’ve not done yet and need to for a project I’m working on. Love your vids!

[iggorr]

Very COOL :) How would I add this to the Sequencer so that it plays back in the video I am making... ?

[blindedinchains]

epicly easy well done broda, i use a acurved tv and the video is zoomed in any tips?

[AzeAlter]

Best tutorial out there for this. Thanks man

[snookofficial]

can the texture sample be used in complex materials? i.e. stuff that rotates, distorts and scrolls UVs? Also can you use it on any static mesh?

[jbmocean]

Thanks for the tut man, worked perfectly! you the man

[Whetzell]

Can you make a video normal map? Sort of like what can be done with animated sprites but with a normal map that matches the media plate video

[nazafi]

Thank you very much for the tut. Can you kindly help me with an issue I came across? I created the video loop. I need this video play continues on the screen. After I export as package I dont see the video on the screen ? any tips how to get that ?

[sadekdhaoui]

Nice tuto thanx for sharing
What hardware did you used please ?
I want to know what hardware needed to reach that quality?

[DeLaGallagher]

Is this your room or did you download it from the marketplace?