# Transparent Flash Video

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/transparent-flash-video/63204>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [September 3, 2004, 9:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/transparent-flash-video/63204 "2004-09-03T21:35:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![flashbulb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e480ec/32.png) [@flashbulb](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/flashbulb)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2004, 9:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/transparent-flash-video/63204/1 "2004-09-03T21:35:06Z")

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[color=black]:p: Hi everyone. I noticed on [[color=#800080]Macromedia’s home page[/color]](http://www.macromedia.com/) one of the rotating headers is a flash video of a woman walking through a virtual environment viewing different uses of flash video. (Vodaphone and [/color][color=black]Toyota[/color][color=black]) Her video layer has no background, allowing for the other layers to be visible. While a simple chromakey setup would work for shooting, the post-production and flash integration has me puzzled. How do they get her background transparent in flash? And, is this technique possible when using a streaming video called from a communication server or external progressive .flv called from http?[/color]

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[color=black]Thanks for the input.[/color]

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[color=black]Cheers [/color]