Flash video..?
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- rasko4
What is the deal with creating video/animation composite in Flash - not done it before so bear with me.
What I want to do if film various things, for instance, someone talking, then integrate with (very simple) illustration, so say film them on a white background, and add some stickmen in the background doing something, or draw the view from inside a window roughly, then have the view itself as video - so can I do this pretty easily in flash and just use masks or what is the deal?
thanks
- version30
Why not AE?
- rasko40
because I need to get a bunch of stuff done quickly and cheaply, AE is certainly an option, but flash is probably more realistic, though I do know someone good with AE.
- chossy0
yes you can rasko it's a piece of piss, although I would do something that required hand drawn people in a program called commotion, it is an amazing compositing application that gives you photoshop tools to do what you require onto video fim.
- rasko40
it will end up embedded onto a site so it needs to be as slim as possible.
- rasko40
thanks chossy, I will lok into that - how's the learning curve?
- version30
i guess i'm just concerned where you plan on getting your masking from
if it was all foreground animation on video in flash, that'd be easy, but if you want something where you can go behind the video, you'll need to be able to key out a color or easily manage moving masks
AE would do this better than flash is all, if flash can key out anything at all
- chossy0
it's actually quite difficult to use rasko :/ but if you go for it let me know and I can help you out I'm pretty much well I guess I'm a professional he he. Look I would just do it in flash export as a movie whatever your finished footage is and then just go wild in flash and do your drawings, can you tell me is audio a major thing?.
- rasko40
v4 mostly it will be simple, and I would aim to avoid having to key masks for bg animation, so, if that is necessary I guess AE would be the way.
Thanks chossy, and yes there wil be at least some audio, as some of the videos will be of people talking, but the enimation will probably not need to be synched.
- UndoUndo0
rasko, flash 8 supports alpha channels in video, so if you key out the back ground in AE or something similar and export the vid with the alpha channel you be able to do what you want without the intense masking,
chossy could porbably recommend how to key out the background?
- rasko40
that sounds perfect thanks :)
- chossy0
indeed, also you can export png sequences from AE if you like....
- UndoUndo0
out of interest chossy is it chromakey, or some other plugin wizardry you guys use these days? and does it cost a fortune?