Making footage in CS 5.5 with completely transparent background. How?

The footage is a man speaking. With this man speaking I want nothing else to show other than the man speaking. No background. I want it completely transparent, other than the man speaking. A good example is http://www.videotile.co.uk/ . This footage is going to go onto a company’s webpage. I gather that I have to export the file into a FLV format or AVI. I can either go through After effects or directly to Flash professional. I can get the background completely transparent through After Effects but I can only export the footage as either a SWL file or a XFL file. I tried the SWL file and loaded it up in Flash Professional. I have gone to the “Publish settings and changed the window mode to transparent and published that. Once I save the file as a HTML and open it up, the page is blank? Could someone help me out, would appreciate that greatly.

Transparent video 'overlays' on a web page are usually done in Flash by setting the SWF's stage to transparent (using Flashvars wmode=transparent) - but of course the video file would need an alpha channel and be supported by Flash Player (FLV, not AVI or Quicktime).
Adobe have depreciated creation of the FLV format in Creative Cloud, and using wmode=transparent is strongly discouraged as it forces Flash Player to disable the hardware-accelerated rendering mode.
It's possible to do a frame-by-frame alpha calculation using HTML5 but it's poorly supported and processor intensive. See HTML5 Video with alpha transparency

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