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Quick question… I am doing a site for a friend whos’ son is autistic.

He plays the drums. We want to feature him playing the drums on the
website (for scholarship assistance)

and I thought . it would be cool to have the video round to fit in the
drum

http://www.grassrootsweb.net/gina

anyway of doing this with the FLV player?? or another way?

Thanks

Julie

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You would need a custom Flash SWF player that had a circular or oval
mask over the movie. Movies are always rectangular, but within Flash
you could take a photo of the drum, cut a “hole” in it (just an area
of 0 opacity) and layer that over the top of the movie. You will
probably have trouble doing this directly in Freeway, because a Flash
movie tends to cut its way all the way through the page, obscuring
even objects that are “above” it in the layer order.

Walter

On Aug 20, 2009, at 9:56 AM, julie maxwell allen wrote:

and I thought . it would be cool to have the video round to fit in
the drum

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Thank you…
can I do this in flash CS3?

On Aug 20, 2009, at 10:06 AM, Walter Lee Davis wrote:

You would need a custom Flash SWF player that had a circular or oval
mask over the movie. Movies are always rectangular, but within Flash
you could take a photo of the drum, cut a “hole” in it (just an area
of 0 opacity) and layer that over the top of the movie. You will
probably have trouble doing this directly in Freeway, because a
Flash movie tends to cut its way all the way through the page,
obscuring even objects that are “above” it in the layer order.

Walter

On Aug 20, 2009, at 9:56 AM, julie maxwell allen wrote:

and I thought . it would be cool to have the video round to fit in
the drum

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Probably. I spend very little time in Flash, so I’m not the best
person to tell you exactly how, but in principle it should work. Try
making a PNG of your drum photo with the drum head erased to
transparent. Bring that into Flash, and bring in your FLV, and try to
move one above the other. If it looks right there, you should be able
to export as SWF. A good place to start would be with any of the
tutorial files that came with Flash that deal with creating your own
FLV player. Open one of those and modify it, rather than trying to
learn the whole business of “wiring” controls for Play/Pause/Stop
yourself.

Walter

On Aug 20, 2009, at 10:10 AM, julie maxwell allen wrote:

Thank you…
can I do this in flash CS3?

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