Play One Movie On Top of Another?

[Sivakatirswami]

OK yes! this works:

1) create stack window: set background to black
2) create player object in center of stack window, set player to no 
control...call it "bgMovie" "Background Movie
3) Create substack "topMovie" with smaller "player1", position stack on 
top of main stack, over the background  movie.
4) set decorations for stack "topMovie" to none  and shrink stack window 
to fit exactly under the rect of player 1.

Then off to the side of the bg movie on the mainstack card put this button:

on mouseUp
 
  start player "bgMovie"
 palette  "topMovie"
   start player "Player1" of stack "topMovie"

end mouseUp

OK,  works  beautifully.  background movie is  running underneath, top  
movie is  playing, audio tracks from both  are coming thru.

note,  its important to make sure you "palette" the topmovie stack. It 
behaves the same as a palette, even though decorations are off, which 
means if the user clicks on the  background  card of the mainstack, the 
topMovie stack sticks on the top layer of the video card.. if you
"topLevel "topMovie"  then when you click on the main stack, the 
topMovie drops  out to the back. "disappears" from the user though it's 
sound track is still running of course... its there, just underneath the 
mainstack.

OK, this has lots of possibilities!  (smile)  Now, if I can figure out 
how to mask the top movie so that is is not just an ugly square rect, 
this actually may begin to look professional...and if  we can stream the 
two movies over the net simultaneously... :-)

I think I should post a stack to RevOnline and  get some tests done on 
Windows..

so next question would be, how to mask a movie so  it  has rounded 
corners, radius, say 12 pixels, with gaussian blur, feathered edges from 
full opacity on the inside to transparent on the outer edges...

Sivakatirswami


Brian Yennie wrote:
> A couple of suggestions, although I can't confirm how far they will 
> take you:
>
> 1) set the alwaysBuffer of the movies to TRUE -- this is generally 
> required for layering movies with any object(s)
> 2) If you can't get everything running in one window, perhaps you 
> could consider using multiple windows, with one floating borderless on 
> top of the other
>
> HTH,
> Brian
>
>> Another one of my "ask for the moon" queries:
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