Windowless Web Video

swarrine wrote on 8/22/2006, 8:03 PM
You know how they have a person pop up on TV (frameless) to promote a program in the lower left or right corner of your TV?

I saw it on the web as well. No windows frame, just looked like someone popped out of the web site and was speaking to you. Obviously, it is most likely a green screen job. But how do they get it on a web site without windows media, quick or real framing it? How to get the alpha channel to work?

Anyone with this type of experience?

TIA

Comments

TheHappyFriar wrote on 8/22/2006, 10:07 PM
ahh, the power of java & flash in the hands of marketing! More ways to suck up your bandwitdh! :)
TomE wrote on 8/23/2006, 6:19 AM
Flash 8 supports alpha channels in the swf. Very cool

-TomE
[r]Evolution wrote on 8/25/2006, 1:24 PM
Overweb3D has a technology that will do this.
I'm not sure how they do it... but I sure would like to know.

If anyone knows how...please post.
deusx wrote on 8/25/2006, 2:20 PM
It's very easy and you don't necessarily need flash8 or its alpha support.

way #1 is to have the whole site done in flash, then you can just insert a person anywhere, it doesn't have to be video, it can be a sequence of bitmaps ( keying done in any software and then you import this into flash )

way #2. It can be a flash movie on a normal html page, using layers, like those annoying floating flash ads do.

If your video is long then you are better off using flash8 video.
[r]Evolution wrote on 8/25/2006, 6:16 PM
way #1
Is simple. Just make the video part of the Flash.

way #2
A Flash Movie on a Normal HTML page... can you point us in a direction to find out how they do that?

I thought you guys were talking more along the lines of THIS. -There's Buttons at the bottom to Generate a DEMO on your own existing site... and one to view other sites that have the Technology.

If someone can point me in the direction to learn/do this... that would be much appreciated.
deusx wrote on 8/26/2006, 12:54 AM
Demo web sites from your link are done with the #2 I mentioned.

It is just a flash video on a layer above the html page. If you look at the source code on some of those demos you'll see a lot of MM this and that, it was generated by Dreamweaver ( MM is macromedia ). It's not realy complicated at all.

Some are their own scripts, but the basic idea is the same, create a layer in your html, place flash video on that layer
( I'm sure there are plenty of tutorials, just do a search, or you can use Dreamweaver for this, it's all in the manual, won't take you 5 minutes, since you are not even animating layers, just creating and positioning )

To me it makes more sense to do the whole thing in flash, since you are already using flash, you can do more that way.

here: http://www.deusx.com/layer

took 5 minutes, I just don't have any talking people video here, so I grabbed a player from one of our games, but it can be anything in there, over any html page ( I just have some nonsene text as an example ).
[r]Evolution wrote on 8/26/2006, 10:32 AM
deusx...
you totally just blew me away with something that is probably super simple for you. Wish it were as simple for me. I think I'm just making it more complicated in my head. Or maybe I should dive deaper into DreamWeaver.

I can embed video into Flash all day. Actually, I do.
But I'm searching for a way to add talking head Flash video to a webpage that already exists. (Because some people don't want you to mess with their site... they want the Overweb3D effect.)

I copied the source from your posted page. I'm gonna dive in and try to figure out what/how you did that.
Only thing is... I would like the Video to Load, Play, then dissapear and be gone.
deusx wrote on 8/26/2006, 1:22 PM
I think you would still need to add that code to the site that already exists, they probably just go about it in a slightly different way ( some exra scripting )..
OK, just looked and they ask for a site url and say they would e-mail a link with your site and video overlayed on top, so I suspect they just copy your code or stick your site in an iframe and then add their layer with video, so in the end you do end up doing the same thing.

As for video loading, playing and disappearing, you do the same thing, just have an empty frame at the end of your flash file where the video will stop after it's done. You don't even need to remove the layer then, but if necesary layers can be hidden, or animated and moved around the page, they don't need to be static.