Keying out a Green Screen for the Web???

[rawdealmonty]

I have a project coming up that will end up on a client's website. It is similar to when a sales person walks onto a website and prompts you to do something on the page or gives info about a product or service. I will shoot with a green screen and key this, most likely, in Avid Xpress Pro. Unfortunately, we will be shooting SD as there is no budget for HD rental. The web developer is telling me that he requires an FLV file, but I do not have an Adobe suite to provide him with this.

How are you guys keying a BG so that it is transparent when exported from their NLE?

I'm pretty sure my system exports with a default white BG once the green has been keyed. Is anyone using Sorenson's cloud based program? I've read elsewhere that I need to use an On2 VP6 codec and export .flv. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks everyone.

[poisondeathray]

You need vp6a (vp6 with alpha channel) .

It comes with adobe suite, but I'm not sure about other products

I usually use keylight in after effects

If you're exporting out, you need RGB+A to preserve the alpha channel (quicktime animation, png in mov quicktime, uncompressed, huffyuv , ut video codec - all have alpha support), then you need some program that can encode vp6a . I think sorenson squeeze might be able to, but there are no open source / free programs that can encode to vp6a

[budwzr]

Other options are to make the whole page a giant FLV that looks like a webpage, OR

Color match the FLV background to the page.

I have an ON2 Standard FLV encoder, and it won't do what you want, have to have the Pro version. It's there as an option, but greyed out.

Yeah, I think you're SOL.