Comments on: Video tutorial: “Elf Yourself” yourself – Personalized video on the web

By: gl

gl — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 22:52:48 +0000

Hi Serge – many thanks for an exceptional tutorial; you make the complicated impossible seem easy! I, too, would really appreciate an updated tutorial showing how more than one character can be tracked/added as this would make a great how-to into a spectacular one!

Perhaps you, or someone else with more than a fleeting knowledge of flash could help me with this – the problem I have is adding the face once the video is in flash. I import the png file, convert to a movie clip and give it an instance. It plays fine, but I can’t position it on top of the existing face in the video. In order for it to be positioned in the right place when compiled, I have to put it to the left and above the video and takes quite a bit of tweaking to get this right…it would be great to have an answer to this – thanks again!!

By: laFunk

laFunk — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 18:13:56 +0000

@dogimo THX FOR THAT SCRIPT HOTFIX!

Regarding the rotation information, i used some simple trigonometrics to achieve that:

var values:Array=param["Track Point 1_Attach Point"].split(/,/);
var values2:Array=param["Track Point 2_Attach Point"].split(/,/);
var myRadians:Number = Math.atan2(values2[1]-values[1], values2[0]-values[0]);
var myDegrees:Number = Math.round((myRadians*180/Math.PI))+90;

Thanks for the tut, Serge =)

By: Wally

Wally — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 23:03:58 +0000

Hey mate, thanks for the AWESOME tutorial, just what i was looking for my project at work.

By: zico

zico — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 15:15:29 +0000

Fisrt, sorry for my english…
This code no worked for me. The problem was that my AFX is not in english and, the consequence is that the code is different :
is not : var values:Array=paramObj["Track Point 1_attach Point"].split(/,/);
is (in french for me): var values:Array=paramObj["Point de suivi 1_Point d'attache"].split(/,/);
So, if your AFX is not in english, your obliged to modify your code. The name parameter is not the same…

Thank for this. Your save my life !
;-))

By: Serge Jespers

Serge Jespers — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 05:12:06 +0000

Hi Robert,

I think in this case you may want to export the cuepoints as an XML file instead of embedding it in the FLV.