Flash 8 Sparkler Buttons
Another little experiment using alpha channeled FLV files for button rollovers. This has a sparkler and twinkle effect to it. You can change the blend mode of the video using the numeric stepper.
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More After Effects & Flash 8 Fun
The buttons below set off an external VP6 FLV when rolled over. You can change the blend mode of the video using the numeric stepper. Would be a cool effect for a movie site or something.
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After Effects 3D Stroke in Flash 8
Here’s another demo of an FLV file with embedded alpha channel. This one uses the 3D Stroke effect for After Effects made by Trapcode. This is great because all of the cool plugin effects can now be used in your Flash movies!
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Matrix FLV Alpha Channel Example
Here is a little demo I made where Neo hovers above a text field. You can easily select and scroll through the text.
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Flash 8 FLV Alpha Channel Tutorial
This is a short tutorial on how to use the new Sorenson Squeeze 4.2 beta to create VP6 FLV files with alpha channels.
Step 1) Mask out your source video using After Effects or other similar application. For this example I did a very rough mask job of a statue that I shot in Las Vegas.
Step 2) Add some feathering to your finished mask so you can sample the 8-bit alpha channel support in Flash 8.
Step 3) Export your video from After Effects and be sure to embed the alpha data. I chose to export as an AVI file.
Step 4) In Sorenson, create a new FLV preset and select the On2 VP6 codec.
Step 5) Check off the “Compress alpha channel” checkbox.
Step 6) I then placed this FLV file over some regular Flash content using the standard NetConnection/NetStream method. Then I published this SWF as a Flash 8 file. See the results below!
And just for fun, here is the same FLV with it’s blend mode set to difference!
I love Flash 8!
Lee
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