Play One Movie On Top of Another?

[Josh Mellicker]

My instinct in this situation would be to create a series of graphics  
for the background layer and the one in front, then put a QT movie on  
top of both.

Then you can swap out the icon properties of the background images as  
you wish.

In my experience QT movies don't like having anything in front of  
them, they might play jerky and make the app unstable (although if  
the objects were different stacks layered over each other this might  
work better than having all layers on the same card - just a guess)



On Aug 24, 2006, at 3:47 PM, Sivakatirswami wrote:

> Another one of my "ask for the moon" queries:
>
> Is it possible to have one movie playing as a background object and  
> another movie playing on top of it at the same time? Actually what  
> I would really like is to have a movie running in the background  
> (layer 1) looping with no controller or border;  an animated GIF  
> running on top of that (Layer 2:) where frames are presented under  
> script control), and yet another Quicktime moving on top of that  
> (layer three, topmost, ) with a controller that the user can use to  
> stop) I tried, but I don't think it works, but before i give up, I  
> just thought I would ask.
>
> User could stop the top most moving, scripted buttons sitting on  
> top of the background movies are active...
>
> Context is:
>
> Having some branding motion graphics subtly playing in the  
> background and then present a specific movies on top. The player on  
> top might change out to other movies, with user interaction from a  
> pull down menu or static side bar of links which dynamically reset  
> the topmost player's URL to a remote.SMIL file. i.e. different   
> user events are happening... underneath it  all the motion graphics  
> movie is running continuously on a loop.
>
> I'd rather not have to go into Final Cut Pro and Shake to composite  
> all this if there's a way in Rev to just have movies running on top  
> of each other...
> Alternate strategies, possible directions to go with, etc.,   
> welcome.  This is in the brainstorming stages...or maybe it's a  
> matter of "video cards just can't do that!"
>
> There's ways to do this with SMIL where we could leave a blank  
> region in the center and run motion graphics in other /seq 's round  
> it in the areas outside a central blank region, and of course QT  
> renders this in a single video layer, but, it would be a lot easier  
> in Rev if such layering of animated objects is doable.
>
> TIA
>
> Sivakatirswami
>
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