flashbulb1 wrote:

> Hi everyone. I noticed on Macromedia's home page 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 Toyota) Her video layer has no
> background, allowing for the other layers including bitmaps, vectors, and more
> flash video 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? I am hoping they didn't just use a keyed
> .png sequence for the woman.

"urami_" <runnerHaHaHIHI@HAHAHIHIflashFugitive.com> wrote in message
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> flashbulb1 wrote:
>
> > Hi everyone. I noticed on Macromedia's home page 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 Toyota) Her video layer
has no
> > background, allowing for the other layers including bitmaps, vectors,
and more
> > flash video 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? I am hoping they didn't just use a
keyed
> > .png sequence for the woman.
>
> Macromedia use very basic solutions, and because flash do not allow any
video
> manipulation - only playback I would guess it is images sequence on
transparent PNG.
> Like the guy coming out of the lift ? Images Sequence.
>

"urami_" <runnerHaHaHIHI@HAHAHIHIflashFugitive.com> wrote in message
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> > Could it not be done using a video covered with an animated mask?
>
> can you imagine how tedious would to make mask that moves ?
> Either hand draw the shape in a frame by frame or shape tween
> but this would go as hell in if you like to control properly.
> Sometimes the really basic solutions are best , size wise , performance
wise
> and time wise.

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> Could it not be done using a video covered with an animated mask?