Image Node

The Image node injects any image format that is supported by Blender.

Inputs

This node has no input sockets.

Properties

Image

Selection of different types of media. For controls see Data-Block Menu. For the options see Image Settings.

Source

Type of image (Single Image, Movie…). See Image Settings.

Frames

How many frames of the Movie-type image (video) to play. Past this point, the video will be paused (unless Cyclic is enabled).

If you want to play the whole video, you can click Match Movie Length in the Image Editor’s Sidebar, then copy the Frames from there to the node.

Start Frame

Scene frame at which the video should start playing.

Offset

Number of frames to offset the video to an earlier point in time. (Put differently: how many frames at the start of the video to skip.)

Hint

Blender plays video textures at the scene frame rate, not their original frame rate, meaning they’ll be faster or slower than intended if these frame rates don’t match up. You can put a Driver on the Offset to work around this. Simply type the following into the field, replacing StartFrame, VideoFrameRate and SceneFrameRate by their respective numbers:

#(frame - StartFrame) * (VideoFrameRate - SceneFrameRate) / SceneFrameRate

Cyclic

Start over after the last frame to create a continuous loop.

Auto-Refresh

Update the video texture in the 3D Viewport when moving through the timeline.

Color Space

The Color Space the image file was saved in. See Image Settings for details.

Alpha

How the image uses its Alpha Channel. See Image Settings for details.

Outputs

The first two sockets are the minimum.

Image

Standard color output.

Alpha

Separate Alpha value.

Note

Multi-Layer Format

When a multi-layer file format, like EXR, is loaded, each layer is made available as a socket.