flashawd Posted April 20, 2010 Share Posted April 20, 2010 Hi - I have a possible client who wants a talking 3D character created that when you go on the page - he shows up at the bottom of the page with a transparent background so you can see the site through him. This is exactly his idea, but with an actual person: http://www.onsitevideos.com can I export out of AM as images with a transparent background? Would I import those directly into flash w/ trans back? Or would I export the anim w/ a blue-screen background color and key it out in Premiere... but then what in premiere - export them out as images... I don't think you can export a .mov file w/ trans back. Anyway, and help or suggestions would be great if anyone has played around with doing this. Thanks - Eric Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted April 20, 2010 Hash Fellow Share Posted April 20, 2010 Rendering with an alpha channel will make the background transparent in applications that can use an alpha channel. I believe flash can do that. You have to render to a format that can support alpha channels. Targa sequence or Quicktime with "Animation" codec. Turn Alpha ON in the Buffers section of your render settings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
largento Posted April 21, 2010 Share Posted April 21, 2010 I did something similar to this a few years ago for a client where I had a butterfly fly onto the page, land and take off again. It was a Flash file that was placed on top of the page. Pausing the video on the page you linked to and right-clicking shows they're using a Flash file, too. I don't recall exactly how to do it, but I think there's a setting in the html that tells it to use a transparent background. [EDIT] Just checked. In the Publish Settings, select the HTML tab and under "Window Mode," select "Transparent Windowless". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashawd Posted April 21, 2010 Author Share Posted April 21, 2010 Thanks guys. Largento do you remember how you placed it on top of the page - was it in layers or something? Was it done w/ Javascripting? Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashawd Posted April 21, 2010 Author Share Posted April 21, 2010 Hello - alright, I figured out a way if anyone is interested... - export the video as a PNG image sequence out of AM - import the images as a file sequence into QuickTime Pro - export as a .FLV video (Video Codec - On2 VPb with a check in the box for encode alpha channel) - in Dreamweaver, choose "insert" - "AP Div" - in that box place the .FLV - in the page code for the object - put "transparent" for "wmode" Here is a mockup I did from an old character to test it... http://www.flashanimationwebsitedesign.com/samples/chris/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NancyGormezano Posted April 21, 2010 Share Posted April 21, 2010 That looks pretty good - thanks for the info. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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