Can anybody help me with transparency with flash. I have several flash objects with full alpha channel which render perfectly on Caspar CG and other CG platforms. However on VMIX they only seem to render with one bit of Alpha channel - i.e on or off. As these flash objects fade in and fade out as part of the object they look really dirty.

Am I doing something wrong? or does VMIX have a flash transparency problem.

All The Best

Keith

Hi,

I have just tested to confirm that semi-transparent flash files display correctly in vMix.
If you are having issues, email the swf file to info@vmix.com.au and I will run some tests.

Thanks,

Martin
vMix

The transparency on the file downloaded here is working fine in vMix 15:

http://forums.vmix.com.a...osts&m=5316#post5316

I suspect maybe an old version of Flash Player is installed on systems where it is black.
Make sure the latest Flash for Internet Explorer 64bit is installed.

Update:

As near as I can figure, the Flash Player installed with Flash Professional CS5 for use in viewing and testing .swf files is not 'updateable':

https://forums.adobe.com/thread/702964
http://blogs.adobe.com/r...h-pro-cs5-and-cs5-5.html

However, all other Flash Players on my system are current (according to Adobe system check)


And so I can only assume that vMix is also most likely to use the most updated version ???

In any event, any of the .swf files that I have that have animated elements with 'alpha' channel semi-transparencies (on black screened player) all exhibit some form of 'non-transparency' as evidenced in this picture where the elements of the star animation are obviously not transparent.



The image can be partially cleaned up with a "Luma Key" adjustment, but it is not the ideal solution.



I hope that helps to clarify the "issue" that I (and others possibly) have with .swf animation transparencies.
Hopefully this is just a 'glitch' somewhere in my system that can be 'identified' or discovered and rectified (as with other 'anomalies' I have experienced with vMix recently http://forums.vmix.com.a....aspx?g=posts&t=3837 that I have yet to resolve)


Ice

@ Martin

File sent via email...
Also, can you confirm that the AmbotZ file should not play out like this:



but rather should look more like this by default?
(cleaned up with "Luma Key" adjustment)




Ice

(I can also confirm that vMix 15.0.0.88 Dynamically updates images as described. yay!)

Just tested on another machine with the black background.
This turns out to be caused by ClearType being enabled in Windows. Disabling this will cause the text to render correctly.
This is also mentioned in the CasparCG documentation, so my guess it is a flash player bug that can't be fixed.

Thanks Martin for your time and input on this.

I can confirm that disabling Aero Themes and ClearType has 'cured' the issue with the AmbotZ flash file (lower third above), but not with the valkanela flash file (animated star above) that I forwarded to you by email, which leads me to believe that it may also have something to do with how it was created in Flash, unless of course it plays as 'expected' for you. Not a major issue, but it would be nice to know the root cause.


Ice