[Robert Penczak]

Hey Chris –

As best I could tell, you’re not able to do that with an flv (though I think you can do it with a QuickTime movie if that works for you – didn’t work for me since I wanted to use other features of flash/flv integration) Please post back if you find out otherwise and good luck with your work.

Rob

[Robert Penczak]

Ok. I uploaded a pair of short video clips to https://www.drupal.yourgods.com/greenscreentest – the first shows the intact greenscreen after garbage matte, the second shows results of keying.

Note, I found a helpful plugin over at https://www.aenhancers.com – under their animation presets – stickeyed near the top of the list is “A good keyer for DV using Keylight – halfway through the thread there’s an update for Keylight 1.2 in AFX CS4.

Still some shifting colors/light inside of my hair that I’d like to fix, but less distracting than the severe edge problem I was getting previously.

[Robert Penczak]

Mark & Angelo –

Thanks for the replies.

I’m doing this in my home office against a 4′ x 8′ piece of hardboard painted green with two halogen workshop lights, one positioned about twelve feet away to light me, and a second positioned behind me and shining on the greenscreen at a dimmish setting to avoid blowing things out. Also have a separate, regular bulb light about 5 feet in front and off to opposite side as main halogen lamp to kind of serve as a Fill light.

I’m recording in HDV, but the Everio saves to its own MOD format which can’t be directly opened inside of After Effects or Premiere Pro (I have CS4) – so I’ve been working with compressed footage (.wmv) which are roughly 25% the size of the original footage.

I’d read through some online stuff looking for a good way to get things out of JVC Everio’s MOD format (from simply renaming the file type to downloadable programs), but I still don’t have a good solution for this – so if someone knows a good way to get this to uncompressed AVI, please let me know.

I’ll try another test video tomorrow or Weds with a couple of your tips in mind, and I’ll post both before and after shots (pre and post kelight keying) so you can get a better sense of what I’m working with.

Thanks for the help.

[Robert Penczak]

Sure, will post if I find something.

[Robert Penczak]

Thanks – but I already know how to do this within a Flash website. My goal is to also set up videos outside of my flash website that can contain active, user-clickable links that lead back to my site or other websites I reference.

[Robert Penczak]

Thanks Jeff. I understand that now.

Could you explain or point me toward any resources that explain how to add that click functionality to my video/flv once I’m done with it?

It’s my understanding that embedding a long video/flv inside of a swf isn’t a good option.

Is there a simple javascript option?

If people come to my site, I have no problem handling the interactivity with Flash.

My question is if I’m going to post the same video/flv on YouTube or Vimeo, is there a way to give it functional links that respond to user clicks? (I know YouTube offers some built in link functionality but I thing that’s only to other youtube videos and sites)

May not be possible – just trying to figure it out.

Thanks for any help.

[Robert Penczak]

Hey Mike –

I tried testing it within the Flash IDE and also by uploading live to my webserver – and while the semi-transparent swf files/buttons layered on top of my flv in Premiere Pro do show up, they don’t function.

Not so sure there’s a viable flash solution to this since embedding my video isn’t a good option.

Not sure if there’s a javascript solution to this or not.