Transition from Movie to Scene is very awkward and obvious

[Chefkirby]

I'm building a live action game for a school project using the Renpy engine. The movie backgrounds work fine as do the videos, the problem is transitioning between them. No matter what I do, the alpha background or a black background show up for a brief moment and break immersion.

I also cannot play cutscenes if I have a movie in the background. Here is the relevant code:

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image s1IntroIdle = Movie(play= "video/Eli_Introduction_Choice_Idle.ogv", size=(1280, 720), xpos=0, ypos=0, xanchor=0, yanchor=0)



    $ renpy.movie_cutscene("video/Eli_Introduction.ogv")
    scene s1IntroIdle loop
    with flash
    
    menu:
        "Hi Eli! How’s it going?":
            hide s1IntroIdle
            $ renpy.movie_cutscene("video/Eli_Introduction_Choice_Z1.ogv")
            
        "*sniffs* Sup. You good?":
            hide s1IntroIdle
            $ renpy.movie_cutscene("video/Eli_Introduction_Choice_Z2.ogv")
            
        "Greetings and salutations Eli. If I may inquire, how is your present mood?":
            hide s1IntroIdle
            $ renpy.movie_cutscene("video/Eli_Introduction_Choice_Z3.ogv")
            
        "Replay Scene":
            hide s1IntroIdle
            jump Suspect1Intro
    
    $ renpy.movie_cutscene("video/Eli_Introduction_Choices_Result.ogv")

[SuperbowserX]

Unfortunately I can't say I can help, but I must say that this is really cool! I would love to see a school project with live action footage be used in Ren'py. I understand that it may be private and there is nothing wrong with that, but would you ever be interested in sharing your project to the world?

[Chefkirby]

That was the plan eventually. I hope I can figure out the issue or someone else has an idea on it soon.

[SuperbowserX]

I'll go have RemindMeBot on Reddit send me a reminder when this is ready because this sounds amazingly cool .

Assuming someone can give you a fix tomorrow, what do you think the ETA of the project will be?