What do you need to use videos as textures in Blender? At this point, you already know how to use images as textures in Blender, and using videos will require only a small adjustment to the settings.

In the Shader Editor, you have the Image Texture Node that will give you an option to open the desired image file you need. At the bottom of your Image Texture Node, you will see the Single Image option as the default texture type. If you change that to Movie, you will be able to use a video file as a texture (Figure 6.2):

When you choose Movie in that node, you will see additional options:

• Frames: How many frames of your video file you wish to use?
• Start Frame: Pick a starting frame to display in your texture.
• Offset: You can offset the total amount of frames for your texture.
• Cyclic: Once Blender reaches the end of a video, it can start over from the beginning.
• Auto Refresh: Always mark this option to make Blender refresh the texture contents for video production on every frame.

That is all you need to use videos as textures in Blender.