Well the example you linked to had several different features, based on different technology.
If you just want to play a normal video over the top of your page, that could probably be achieved with a bit of wordpress template modification & an understanding of html layers. The 'person standing over the top of the website' stuff relies on a feature that flash has had for a very long time - the ability to play videos with transparent backgrounds. To do this you need to get several steps right. First you have to make your source video so that it doesnt have a background, typically by using green screen or other technique to remove the background, then save the video in a format that supports alpha. Then you have to encode that into .flv format with the right options ticked to preserve the alpha channel. Then you need to play that video back on the web using a suitable flash video player. I do not know if there are 3rd party programs which support alpha-channel flv video encoding, I tried some months ago and ended up having to use flash itself, not a cheap option. But I may be missing something. Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Bill Vick" <headhun...@...> wrote: > > I've come across the Transparent Video player on a few websites. It's > where the player is invisible and a person looks like they are > standing or appearing on your page. Some call it a Video Spokesperson. > > Josh Anderson has a player and demo here: > http://transparentplayer.com/ > > Are their any wordpress plugins to create this effect? I guess you > could use Izzy's white background tutorial (http://xrl.in/) and end up > with something very dramatic - at least that's my game plan. > > Any sources, tutorials or how to's on creating this effect and player? > Can it be used with Blip.tv hosted content? Is it worthwhile buying > into the player or tutorials? > > Bill > http://www.XtremeRecruiting.tv > http://www.EmploymentDigest.net >
