Storyline 2 - Problem with FLV files with alpha channels

Quentin,Do you or Lisa use Final Cut Pro? There are a lot of different ways to arrive at the same end result. Below is an example. Not sure what you’re doing however I used CrazyTalk2 for the avatar, Final Cut Pro for the Titles and logo and imported it into Storyline2 to compress and encapsulate into an online CBT…I have by passed the FLV with an Alpha Channel…..

Hi George! It seems that you may have meant to share an example here? I'm not seeing it if so.

Hi Leslie, I attached a 4.8m mp4 of what I do to work with alpha channels. Wasn’t sure if it would make it to the discussion board but thought I’d try...
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Let me try this....This is done with crazytalk, final cut pro, compressed and inserted as a video in SL2

Thanks George. Looks like it came through that last time.

Seeing your previous post, perhaps you were replying via e-mail. This does not allow your attachments to come through, but does attach your signature.

You are welcome to pop in and edit if needed.

Gotcha! Thanks. I uploaded it as a post rather than through email response. It made it up to the discussion. Anyway, the point I’m trying make is that i stopped spinning my wheels on trying to produce flv’s with alpha channels and took a different route to the end result…

George Moureau

George, your clip looks great. Very similar to what we're trying to do, except with a human narrator. We have Final Cuts, but don't have that much experience using it. I guess it's time to learn. By the way, have you seen this page from Adobe that says if you use an earlier version of After Effects, you can still export FLV with Alpha Channel? https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1500802 

Yes I know. Unfortunately my older version won't run any longer. After upgrading my macs OS it quit working.
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I could do it for you if you're interested.

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Thanks for the offer. We're working on prototypes to see if we want to do this on a larger scale.

I have a lot of experience with these types of programs. Our website is www.piccexcellence.com we do online training for medical profesionals. Good luck. Let me know if you need a consult

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Sorry for not answering the thread until now. Its true, both Apple and Adobe are phasing out old technologies like FLV, thus leaving us who have workflows using this in the ditch. But hey progress right? :)

so instead of using FLV's with alpha channel I just created a video file the same size as my slide with the same background.

Take a look at slide 3 "klinisk kommunikasjon" in this project

http://meddev.uio.no/elaring/fag/atferdsfag/klinkom/

bye bye FLV

George & Morten:

I really like the clip you (Morten) posted. Very well done and similar to what we're trying to do. So you're saying you're now doing most of your "background" work in Final Cut Pro instead of Storyline because of the difficulty of creating FLV with alpha channel.

Have either of you seen any of Grovo's work? Here are a couple of videos about their approach:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnZ9QtG634w 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaPHkFdWxyM 

Here are some examples of Grovo lessons:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM-6vyFFnrM 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c293gMI_7eI 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxNbVSHA9A0

Any movement on this? Current version that I am running is 11:1609.320 and still no fix. Might be time to get some new programmers

Hi Bobby,

This forum discussion is a bit older, and as such I'm not sure exactly the issue that you're running into. If you're having an issue with some of your video files, our team is always happy to take a look. You can upload them using the form here, and our Support Engineers are around 24/7. 

Hi Ashley,

Yes I know this thread is a bit old but the issues still exist. I am currently dealing with this now. So my questions is. Any movement on this over the last two years?

I know that I can use the SL1 then import into Sl2 but I should not have to do this. It is just frustrating if over two years your programmers have not been able to fix this

Hi Bobby,

The .flv alpha channel issue was fixed during a prior update, so you should be seeing that it's working. I'm attaching an .flv file with alpha channel that I just tested and  is successfully working (showing the transparency) in SL2. 

Mike

Thanks Mike,
Glad to see this is working

Is there a way to get the .flv videos out of an SL2 project so that they can be put into 1 slide in SL1? I am editing someone else's SL project and am seeing these black backgrounds for .flv

which update does it work with? I am getting 'no updates available at this time' and am still getting this black background issue?

Hi Elizabeth

the release notes for Storyline 2 - May 7, 2015 (Update 5—Build 1505.515) list as a bug fix

Fixed issue where FLV alpha channel transparency wasn't working in published output

Here is a link to the release notes page

Looking at this thread from 2 months ago (Mike Enders and Bobby Percella) it appears it is??

am wanting to know how to get .flv files out of SL2? If this bug still exists, then I need to be able to get the .flv files out into SL1.  How do I do that?