Help reg. moving imported movie to back

[norland]

Hi eveyone,

I'm in a little of trouble - I can not get an imported movie to get to the back.

Ex.: I would like to visually crop a movie by placing a frame on to (just an rectangle) - but the rectangle will not get to the front - and the movie not to the back............what do I do?????

Thank a million to the one who can help me reach my dead-line.

Kim.

 

[eladi]

hei norland,

if i get you right, you work with a mov-file? when you import quicktime movies, it gets the setting "direct to stage". this causes the qt-movie always standing on top of all other objects - although it might not be on the top channel. usually you want this setting, because the movie perfomance is much better like this. so, if you want to "crop" the movie with a graphic, you have two possibilities:

a) undo the "direct to stage" setting. check the movie perfomance after this though!!

b) more complicated, but more professional. create a mask! you will have to import the mask as a 8bit graphic. then use this script on the movie-sprite:

on beginSprite me
member("pic.videomaske&quot.regPoint = point(25,25)
sprite(the currentSpriteNum).member.mask = member("pic.videomaske&quot
end

you'll have to set the regPoint of the mask to where it fits your movie. it's kind of trial and error, but eventually it works. like this you have a croped movie still runing on good performance.

hope this helps.
adrian