Adding videos to background

Hi all,

I’ve had a lot of fun with motion tracking in blender. I recently did a project where I didn’t have to track the source video (it was on a tripod) and I went straight to modeling and animation. I found, however, that unless I went through the process of tracking and setting up a tracking scene I couldn’t manage to get the movie to be in the background when it rendered. All the tutorials I’ve looked at are outdated or use blender render. Does anyone know how to get a movie into the background of a project in cycles?

Thanks a ton,
Joseph

A couple of options
Using the compositor and adding the image with a File Input node
Adding the movie as a texture to the World