transparent video in flash?? HELP!

[annakubit]

Hi there,

I have a client that has requested me to make a custom flash website that is something like

http://www.4what.com,

with him flying in on the menu and talking about his idea.

I am a new website developer with many requests for my website, but I am still a novice to web development.

Can someone coach me on how to do this? I have so far only used swishmax for my website creations (

http://www.thirdeyemanagement.com

for instance). I need to take it a step further.

Also, if you are willing and able to do add the flying in man (like 4what.com) to my design, I am happy to pay someone for this - in such case I will need a price and all the details.

Thank you!

I can be emailed by the way at anna12345@annakubit.com and my website is

http://www.konsultar.com.

Anna

 

[kennethkawamoto]

First you have to shoot a video using plain colour background - usually either blue or green. Then knock out the background colour digitally in any of the video editing software; AfterEffects, FinalCut, Avid etc etc. This technique is known as "Chroma Key". The resultant video will have alpha channel to define transparency.

Then you'll need to convert it to FLV using either Flash 8 FLV encoder or any of 3rd party encoders available.

Kenneth Kawamoto

http://www.materiaprima.co.uk