Video on website?
by Bob Karsner
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Oct 22, 2009 at 6:42:03 pm
I am working on a web site were the client is wanting to have an introductory
message delivered by a person. I want to have the video play automatically but
have the actor appear on top of the web page as though they were keyed on using
a green screen. Any direction on how this is accomplished? I have been seeing it more
and more on sites. Here is a company already doing this concept. http://www.rovion.com/ This is basically what my client wants to accomplish. We are a full video and audio
production company also moving into more and more web development.
Re: Video on website? by Richard Keating on Oct 23, 2009 at 4:11:17 am
There are several possible workflows, depending on your gear, but the key ingredient is to encode your final video (with greenscreen keyed out and no background layer) with a Flash encoder that uses the On2 codec (it supports alpha channels). I use Flix Pro and it works like charm.
Pulling a good key is essential, so light your greenscreen carefully. Bad keys will turn into crapy looking encodes.
Re: Video on website? by Bob Karsner on Oct 23, 2009 at 3:38:48 pm
Thanks Richard,
I have AfterEffects and it has the On2 codec with alpha channel. I am using Dreamweaver to create my web site so is there a specific procedure for putting that in the site so the video will play "on top" of my page content? Also, I am assuming that the final format of the video file is to be flv.
