Understanding how layering works with the video component

[ryanb4724670]

Hello everyone,

I have just picked up Animate CC this week, my company has tasked me with making HTML5 banner ads. I have them all created, but they all involve the same video clip. I have it placed in the add using the video component.

What im having issues with is layering. Even when the video component is on the bottom layer, I cant put text, shapes, or a clickable area over it.  We obviously need the ad to be clickable and the video takes up most of one of our ad sizes. I placed a clickable button over the whole add, on its own layer above the video layer. Yet still the video can not be clicked to take you to our site.  The slight border around the video is clickable though.

There is something weird that I dont know about the video component where no matter what you cant place anything over it. Anyone have any experience with this or find a work around? This would be pretty limiting for our ad campaign if we cant have the videos click through.

Any and all advice is welcome! Thanks!

[kglad · Accepted solution]

if canvas, you can't place anything over it using flash animate.  you need to edit the html/js files.

[ClayUUID]

1) You can't layer anything on the canvas on top of a component.

2) Banner ads that play video are the cancer of the internet. They suck bandwidth and slow pages to a crawl. This is exactly why so many people install ad blockers.

[kglad]

i've got mine.  actually, i disable flash player, by default.

[ryanb4724670]

That makes sense, I dont want to be the bad guy of the internet but its what my boss wants lol. He wants this video of a rotating world somewhere in the ad, so if you or anyone else had an idea of how to get that into the ad without hogging bandwidth that would be awesome.

[kglad]

you don't need a video for that.  there are rotating earth animated gifs that you could use.

[ClayUUID]

Or just loop tween a flat projection of the earth across a circular mask.