Layering images over video

[Jaxx]

can anyone tell me how I can put a cast member over a quicktime video
without the video jumping to the front? This would be used to put a frame
around the video.

Thanxx
Jaxx

[Julian de Saxe]

Jaxx,
The easiest way to accomplish this (and the only way if you want to maintain
reasonable performance of the video) is to put the frame in the background.
Then create a 1bit bitmap castmember which will act as a mask for the
quicktime video. Make the mask black where you want the quicktime to display
and white where you want the video knocked out. Then set the mask of the
quicktime member to the bitmap you created.
-- member(QuickTimeMember,castLib).mask = member(OneBitMaskGraphic,castLib)
This mask will knock the edges off the QT and reveal the frame underneath.
This method ain't much good if you want to move the movie all over the stage
but its the only way I know to do it short of setting the DirectToStage
property of the QT to false. Doing that will severely hamper the performance
of the video.
Julian.

Jaxx wrote:

> can anyone tell me how I can put a cast member over a quicktime video
> without the video jumping to the front? This would be used to put a frame
> around the video.
>
> Thanxx
> Jaxx
>
>