Can this be done without the movie breaking up all over the screen? I tried every combination of combine graphics, layer, nothing works.
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I think the simple answer to this is - No!
I believe that movies/flash etc. will punch their way to the top
What exactly are you trying to achieve - maybe there is another way.
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On 2 Sep 2008, 9:59 pm, Chris Poisson wrote:
Can this be done without the movie breaking up all over the screen? I tried every combination of combine graphics, layer, nothing works.
Probably the easiest answer is no. Flash movies in particular will push everything above them down so that the Flash movies are always on top. With Quicktime movies it may be possible, although I haven’t actually tried it, but depending on what the “graphic item” is it might make more sense to include as part of the movie instead.
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Actually, I just found a way to do this. If the graphic items are created outside the movie box, then dragged over it it seems to work. But thanks for the explanation.
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Sometime around 2/9/08 (at 18:23 -0400) Chris Poisson said:
If the graphic items are created outside the movie box, then
dragged over it it seems to work.
Better test that across different browsers…
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Hmmm,
You’ve got something there, it works in Safari but not in Firefox. Back to the drawing board.
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Sometime around 2/9/08 (at 18:37 -0400) Chris Poisson said:
Back to the drawing board.
The trouble is, plugins do their best to own the area in the page
that they use, and they normally draw their content after the page is
rendered.
The only sure way to achieve this effect is to take a copy of the
element you want to overlap and add it to the movie itself. Then
position everything carefully in the page and the effect will be
pretty much as you want.
Basically, fake it.
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Hmmm,
Yes I could certainly fake it, but then I wouldn’t be able to link anything to those bits, as a map area marquee wouldn’t work over it, since the movie comes to the top. The whole reason to do this is to get some interactivity into the screen, as in this web site, check out the rollovers and links on the twitchy little graphics. www.storyofstuff.com
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Yes I could certainly fake it, but then I wouldn’t be able to link anything to those bits, as a map area marquee wouldn’t work over it…
How about copying the last frame of the movie, sort of a freeze frame, and use that as your button?
check out the rollovers and links on the twitchy little graphics. www.storyofstuff.com
The movie at the top of the page is all Flash. The interactive parts of it are also all done in Flash.
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Sometime around 2/9/08 (at 19:33 -0400) Chris Poisson said:
but then I wouldn’t be able to link anything to those bits
Unless you added link hotspots to the QuickTime or Flash movie, of course! 
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On 2 Sep 2008, 9:59 pm, Chris Poisson wrote:
Flash movies in particular will push everything above them down so that the Flash movies are always on top.
So that´s why I can not have pulldown menues roll over my .swf-movies. I have tried just about everything. Works fine in different browsers on Mac, but the menus crawl underneath the movie on PCs.
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Keith,
How does one ad a link hot spot to a QT?
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How does one ad a link hot spot to a QT?
Actually, I’ve misled you slightly, for which I apologise.
QuickTime VR (QTVR) panoramas can have full-blown hotspots, and a lot
of my QT work is with QTVR. But regular time-based movies can contain
embedded links, and there’s a lot you can do with that. Detailed
information is here:
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/tutorials/hreftracks.html
here:
http://web.uvic.ca/akeller/pw408/ht_qt_clickable_links.html
here (I have this book; excellent although no longer all correct):
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/QuickTime/QT4WebPage/samplechap/special-6.html
and in many other places online. See what you get when you Google ‘href track’:
http://www.google.com/search?q=href+track
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