Add Video Background

hey guys sorry Elementor here today we’ll go over the elemental video background options video backgrounds immediately draw your website’s viewer attention and adds to your overall website design so just before we dive in

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it and click Edit with Elementor I’m using the default 2017 WordPress theme

it’s not full width so let me fix this real quick click the COG here and choose Elementor full width that’s it it’s done we’ll choose a pre-designed page so click the add template icon and I’ll use
this coffee store 1 so clicking insert here so let’s go ahead and change the hero section to a nice video background click the section handle to edit its settings first let’s go to the advanced

and get rid of the padding here so just delete this great now under layout choose mean height and set it to 500 pixels

under style click the video background icon here and let’s insert a youtube link you can also insert a self-hosted video in an mp4 format upload it to your library and paste the link here just make sure it doesn’t weigh too much

so let me copy this link here and paste as you can see it works I have a video background for my hero section let’s quickly go over the options available here you see we have a start and end time and that’s very useful if you want to have a looped video let’s start a video here at 10 seconds now let’s set a fallback image this is necessary for devices then don’t preview videos automatically so just click it and

choose an image next we have background overlay this is really useful when your video is too bright or when you want to personalize your video with your own touch let’s see how it works first let’s
darken the video a little so the text will pop out so click the background

type and let’s choose the color black play with the opacity slider and leave it around 60% now to personalize the video look pick a color that suits your video I’ll pick an orange brownish color now

set the opacity to 100% and let’s click the blend modes here and play with those a little I’ll go would multiply well that’s it now you can add video backgrounds to your sections and boost your website design