Using green screen ( but just on isight) is this possible

Can anybody direct me to a tutorial on exactly how to place a greenscreen background into the isight capture.
I am using imovie 09 to create a video however i captured the isight footage using screenflow. Now i would like to use the isight footage however wanted to place a nice background image in the frame so it looks more pro than just the background of the recording area. Is this possible.
I attempted to export from screen flow and import into imovie however it exports the whole enchilada screencast and isight as an exported .mov.
Regards M

Welcome to Discussions, whoismarktaylor
Until you get better suggestions:
whoismarktaylor wrote:
Can anybody direct me to a tutorial on exactly how to place a greenscreen background into the isight capture.
(1) Position "greenscreen" (something like this: http://tinyurl.com/29w2lp4 )
(2) Position subject in front of "greenscreen"
(3) Record with iSight
I am using imovie 09 to create a video however i captured the isight footage using screenflow. ...
Seems simpler to me to follow iMovie Help to record and superimpose directly in iMovie:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iMovie/9.0/en/mov39f84285.html
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iMovie/9.0/en/mov3a622974.html
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