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url: /orchestration/reference/operations/InvokeVideoBackgroundRemovalStepTemplate.md
description: 'POST /v2/consumer/recipes/videoBackgroundRemoval — Tracks a prompted foreground object across a video and returns a lossless animated WebP with transparency'
---

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# Tracks a prompted foreground object across a video and returns a lossless animated WebP with transparency

`POST https://orchestration.civitai.com/v2/consumer/recipes/videoBackgroundRemoval`

Operation `InvokeVideoBackgroundRemovalStepTemplate` · Recipes · Civitai Orchestration API, generated from the published OpenAPI spec ([v2-consumers.json](https://developer.civitai.com/openapi/v2-consumers.json)); the interactive HTML page is this URL without `.md`.

## Authentication

Send `Authorization: Bearer <token>` (the spec's `ApiKey` scheme); this operation documents `401 Unauthorized` for a missing or invalid token. See [Authentication](https://developer.civitai.com/orchestration/guide/authentication.md).

## Parameters

| Name | In | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| `experimental` | query | boolean | no |  |
| `allowMatureContent` | query | boolean | no |  |
| `whatif` | query | boolean | no |  |
| `ephemeral` | query | boolean | no |  |
| `tier` | query | `WorkflowTier` (one of `paid`, `free`) | no | How a workflow is paid for. |

## Request body

Optional. Content types: `application/json`, `text/json`, `application/*+json`.

Schema `VideoBackgroundRemovalInput`.

| Field | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| `video` | string (uri) | yes |  |
| `foregroundPoints` | array of `VideoBackgroundRemovalPoint`, nullable | no |  |
| `backgroundPoints` | array of `VideoBackgroundRemovalPoint`, nullable | no |  |
| `maskExpansion` | integer (int32) | no | (default `0`, minimum `-32`, maximum `32`) |
| `maskFeather` | number (double) | no | (default `2`, minimum `0`, maximum `32`) |

### Types used by the request body

#### VideoBackgroundRemovalPoint

Schema `VideoBackgroundRemovalPoint`.

| Field | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| `x` | number (double) | yes | (minimum `0`, maximum `1`) |
| `y` | number (double) | yes | (minimum `0`, maximum `1`) |

## Responses

### 200 OK

Content type: `application/json`.

Schema `VideoBackgroundRemovalOutput`.

| Field | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| `video` | `VideoBlob` | no |  |

### 400 Bad Request

Content type: `application/json`.

Schema `ProblemDetails`.

| Field | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| `type` | string, nullable | no |  |
| `title` | string, nullable | no |  |
| `status` | integer (int32), nullable | no |  |
| `detail` | string, nullable | no |  |
| `instance` | string, nullable | no |  |

### 401 Unauthorized

Content type: `application/json`.

Schema `ProblemDetails` — fields as listed above.

### 403 Forbidden

Content type: `application/json`.

Schema `ProblemDetails` — fields as listed above.