People against transparent backgrounds?

If you look at this design firm's site, the home page has a lady walking around in front of a transparent background so other graphics can show through.. can anyone tell me what the technique is to do this? Obviously you video the subject.. against greenscreen?
http://www.seattledesigngroup.com/

Hamanth thanks for your reply...   I not sure if I'm doing something wrong. Let me know.    I set the stage in edge to "0" transparency.
On publishing the OAM file I tried both transparency option on ond off.   When published off I see my content
image with a white background in Muse. Preview in Muse and it works.   When I publish OAM file transparency  on
I see a totally empty container.   When previewed in Muse my animation shows up.
I would like to place my animation in Muse and see my content on a transparent background.

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