Simple Transparent Flash

Transparent Flash Works!

So far I’ve been able to make a simple movie in Flash and remove the background in FCP.

1. Make Flash movie with green background and put some text in the visible stage.

2. Export as QuickTime movie; make settings high (note: I had sound disabled).

3. Import in FCP. Place clip above another clip you want to words to show up on.

4. Apply the Blue/Green Screen filter. When I first applied the filter it looked like some of the black text was fringed by bits of green background. When I played the clip none of those issues were there and only smooth, black text remained on top of the lower video clip. I used these settings to remove the green background, leaving behind black text:


View: Final
Key Mode: Green
Color Level: 90
Color Tolerance: 54
Edge Thin: 100
Edge Feather: 0

5. I then rendered the filtered sequence. Any additions of this sequence have to be rendered too. It took about 3 minutes to render 3 seconds of the text clip.

The end result was black text overlaid on top of a video clip. This isn't anything different from what can be done with LiveType. But the next step: do the same thing with an animation!