And this link ( Netscape users won’t see it I don’t think ): http://msn.foxsports.com
Wait for the page to load and you should see an embedded swf with a transparent bg of a woman in the bottom left of your browser window.
I’m wondering if they masked the bg in an editing proggy ( think green-screen ) and when imported into Flash that the flash movie with the video when exported and set to wmode=transparent would it in fact show up transparent except the part of the vid you want opaque?
Sorry if the wording is a bit fuddled.
Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
How to import the video, even embedded, to flash so the background is transparent.
I thought and tried to do layer mask in Flash but this would be way too time consuming, and plain unrealistic to get a fluid look.
I’m thinking now that it may be After Effects but seeing as how I just installed here at work and no-one in the office knows how to use it, I’m forced to teach myself a bit by reading the help files.
So if any has even the slightest inclination or at least a suggestion it would be great.
Well, I know I read somwhere that in the flash publishing settings, you can select somthing to make the movie transparent…Ill look into it more later, I have to get ready for work now
I’m aware of how to make an .swf transparent, but what I was wondering how to do was to make portions of what looks like video, like the background, to be transparent, as well.
I think I’ve figured out how to do this with After Effects and export as an swf. in vector format.
I’m a total newbie at AE, however, and need to find a way to keep what I made transparent/ masked with Color Key to carry over in the .swf exporting. So far I haven’t had any luck in exporting my Color Key edits from AE.
The reason I would like to have the above be available on export is because otherwise I have to manually go frame by frame in Flash and delete the background with the magic wand tool. So even a short video clip at 30fps is going to need a lot of manual editing in Flash.
Getting closer to what I want to accomplish, but not quite there yet.