In the past month I’ve had 6 people ask me this question, so I decided to post a short tutorial for flash developers in the future. There are many reasons you may want to use a transparent background for your FLV file…Maybe you’re using a gradient background in your html file that you really like, or maybe you’re stacking divs using Z-Index, and have a flash file somewhere in there that needs to have a transparent background. Whatever the case, if you are a flash developer there will most likely be a time when you need to implement this.

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