Display text (or anything) in front of a video

[David Vinson]

Mary,

The answer by David McFarlane is right* - video stimuli are always 
displayed in front of anything else while running.
It seems possible to overlay something else over a video on a Slide or 
Feedback object, then move the video to the back.  But when the stimuli 
are displayed the video always plays in front.

I suspect you've discovered the warning message to this effect when 
trying to send a movie to the back on a slide object: "SlideMovie 
components selected were sent to back to permit for easier Slide 
component editing, but at runtime Movie components are always presented 
on top of all SlideText and SlideImage objects".

One solution could be to edit the video files themselves - this seems 
like a possibility if the alteration is simple (like a fixation cross at 
a fixed location in all your video files). 

*except concerning David's disclaimer mentioning the target response 
times for E-Prime support requests placed online. Based on a handful of 
online support requests by me and other colleagues in the past month or 
two, the current queue for first response is about 5 working days.

-david
> I'm running E-Prime 2.0 Standard, and I've run into a problem with
> being able to display anything in front of a video.  For example, it
> would be nice to display a fixation cross in the middle of the screen
> for the duration of our experiment which contains videos.  It seems
> that the default is set to make any videos appear on the top of
> anything else that may be on the MovieDisplay.  Is there a way to push
> the movie to the back so text can be displayed over it?
>   


-- 
David Vinson, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Researcher
Cognitive, Perceptual and Brain Sciences Research Department
University College London
49 Gordon Square, London, WC1H 0PD
Tel +44 20 7679 5311   (UCL internal x25311, alternate x28694)
d.vinson at ucl.ac.uk 

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