Putting video presenters in a lesson

May 18, 2012

Ultan Coyle
By Ultan Coyle

Hi All,

I am looking to add a dynamic and more personal feel to some of our duller material and one of they ways I think i can do that is by recording a peice to camera on green screen and remove the backgroud and put it into Storyline/Studio as SWF with a transparent background.

The problem for me a the moment is to do this I need to purchase some hardware and software. However, our management team would like to see an example before they stump up the cash so I have spent hours looking for an SWF with a transparent background file of someone presenting some information and its harder than I thought would anyone out there have a SWF that I could use even ifs 10 of 15 secs that would be fantastically helpful.

2 Replies
Natalia Mueller
almost 12 years ago05/18/12 at 10:27 am (UTC)

I'm sorry that I don't have the answer for you. If you find yourself in a bind and still want to create a dynamic feel, here is a great example of how Mike Enders did that with and without live video. This was made in Studio but I'm pretty sure most of it would work in Storyline as well

http://elearning-examples.s3.amazonaws.com/PsychedIn10/player.html

This article includes screenrs on how he did several of the different elements

Best of luck to you!

Dave Parry
almost 12 years ago05/22/12 at 3:48 pm (UTC)

I used Elance to find someone who has the expensive software for this (Adobe After Effects with plug ins etc) and I have managed to get quotes down to around $10 per 1 min clip to crop, rotate, chroma key out my green screen background and save as a flash file with the transparency set in the alpha channel (I have learnt all these terms in the last two days!).

The problem I have is that despite getting a few providers to send me short clips as examples, and they all swear blind that they have definitely saved the movie with the alpha channel set as transparent for the background, as soon as I import into Storyline it gets a black background and I can't get it to work. I realise this is a different problem, so I will go and start a new thread about this now.

However, and back to your point, if someone can answer that question, then you'd be more than welcome to have one of my short example clips that have been provided to use an example.

David

This discussion is closed. You can start a new discussion or contact Articulate Support.