Shapes over video

[Jan Kucera]

Hi,
why is the video always on-top? I want shapes to be over the video during
playback.. how could I do that?

Jan

 

[dcsloan]

One of the gurus might have a third-party answer, but within PowerPoint it
isn't going to happen - the video is always on top.

 

[John Wilson]

There's no simple answer. The only thing that shows over video are control
toolboxi tems and you cant control these with animations!

 

[Jan Kucera]

Hmm... interesting notice, thank you for that idea.. since I don't need to
animate that, it could help me!
Jan

 

[John Wilson]

Please post back if whatever you are doing works! I'm working on this at the
moment.

 

[Jan Kucera]

Yep, it works, unless you click the video to pause. Then, when you click to
resume, it is brought to the foreground.
And, what is a little bit more pitty is, that if you set the background of
eg. label to transparent, it does not render transparent during video play.

But otherwise good trick, thanks.
Jan

 

[John Wilson]

If you are trying to get text with a tranparent background over your video
probably the easiest way is to incorporate it in the video. Probably easier
than you think!

http://www.pptalchemy.co.uk/text_and_video.html

 

[Jan Kucera]

That was just an idea to try I actually thought I could use labels with
the same background color as the slide has to visually crop out the black
stripes from the 16:9 video in 4:3 and that works good enough.

Thanks!
Jan