Animating over video..?

[sahduk]

I was wondering if it were possible to animate over a video on flash.

Basically I want to combine live action with animation, and wanted to try using flash. My idea is some what simple, I have a human performing some actions, I trace over them on flash and export it into the video.

How would I do this? 0.o

[Blounty]

It's called rotoscoping I believe.

[sahduk]

At 6/3/12 03:39 PM, Blounty wrote: It's called rotoscoping I believe.

Can I rotoscope on photoshop then import to flash?

[JellyDraft]

File>import to stage>import video
Now insert a new layer, put it on top and animate on the new layer.
I used to experiment with that a lot. Good luck, and share your results!

[sahduk]

At 6/3/12 03:57 PM, JellyDraft wrote: File>import to stage>import video
Now insert a new layer, put it on top and animate on the new layer.
I used to experiment with that a lot. Good luck, and share your results!

Right so Im trying to import the video but I keep getting audio codec error messages My video file is also a .flv and pretty small too. It getting annoying now :(

[sahduk]

At 6/3/12 04:44 PM, sahduk wrote:

At 6/3/12 03:57 PM, JellyDraft wrote: File>import to stage>import video
Now insert a new layer, put it on top and animate on the new layer.
I used to experiment with that a lot. Good luck, and share your results!

Right so Im trying to import the video but I keep getting audio codec error messages My video file is also a .flv and pretty small too. It getting annoying now :(

I unticked the audio box and managed to import it, now Im getting a black box, and cant see the video.

[sahduk]

Right so basically I downloaded a .flv video of youtube, then tired to import it into flash on the timeline.

At the moment Im just getting a black box and nothing plays.

[RubberPanda]

Yeah there was this guy on youtube named flashj0mm who did that
just import your video on a layer
make a new lawyer and animate there

[sahduk]

At 6/4/12 12:02 AM, RubberPanda wrote: Yeah there was this guy on youtube named flashj0mm who did that
just import your video on a layer
make a new lawyer and animate there

I did that, my video appears to be a black box. When i scroll against the time line there is nothing to trace against.

[sahduk]

Right so I managed to do it, heres a link to it

[Blounty]

At 6/4/12 08:21 PM, sahduk wrote: Right so I managed to do it, heres a link to it

Looks nice but don't rely on rotoscoping too much.

[francisyfl]

Well theres a way i use. First select your background color, choose this color #00FF00 ..That is chroma key color, and then start animate, dont put any other backgrounds in it, then export your animation in a .MOV file, and open Adobe premiere or sony vegas, drop both your animation and the video you want :3. Put your animation on top of the video and add the chroma key effect. There you go, i think thats the best way to do it, cause if you try video in flash it will crash to often. Hope it helps

[francisyfl]

oh wait, also it depends the colors youre using on the characters, if youre using green tones, select a blue #0000FF or a red #FF0000 . So, you just rotate between those basic colors.