My brother and I were tasked with utilizing an augmented reality app called aurasma and create the videos for it. At first I thought it was going to be easy, but it took quite a while to create the videos due to issues with the program After Effects. The newest version of After Effects on my PC no longer supported a file format known as flv. This was needed to create a video that had a transparent background utilizing the RGB+Alpha channel feature, which Adobe removed for the flv format. That was the biggest obstacle in my path. I spent three days researching how to get the video to have support for an RGB+Alpha channel in the flv format, but all I was able to produce was a 200mb avi file that did support the RGB+Alpha channel, but it was not supported with the augmented reality app. It was frustrating not getting it to work at home, but as soon as I checked on the PC's at school to see if the version of After Effects supported the flv format, and it turned out that it did! I was so relieved that it worked because it was essential for the project. All the struggles to get this working has made me an expert in making a video that has a transparent background. I wish Adobe had never removed the file format flv because people like me and others needing to create something similar will have a hard time doing it. The format flv is considered obsolete, but in my opinion, Adobe really shot themselves in the foot by doing this unnecessary removal of something helpful.
Here is the link to the game (if it doesn't work, the website people are still probably doing updates): http://www.perfectevil.com/
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