Making video transparent, which tool?

Hi all,
Please let me know if the question belongs to somewhere else.
I have cs4 web premium which doesn't include aftereffects. I need to however make a green/blue backgrounded video transparent (alpha channel, if I got it right) to be used by flash/as3. I'm not sure if I can use either firework or illustrator do the job? another question is, for a short movie clip, which tool can be used to edit the movie frame to turn the non-green/blue clored backgroud into green (then adding alpha channel...).
Thanks
-s

I guess these links will help you
http://brianchau.wordpress.com/2009/04/08/transparent-flash-video-overlay-on-html-page/
http://www.flash-here.com/tutorials/flash_transparent_bkg.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oflx4UE8oo8

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