How to put animation over video in HTML5 canvas

Thank you, this is an easy way out that works.

So I figured I'd verify my own advice, and came up with this simple function. Seems to work fine on desktop Windows IE, Firefox, and Chrome.

// accepts target clip to create bitmap in, file path to video
// returns reference to bitmap object, with access to video element via "video" property
function makeBitmapVideo(clip, path) {
    var vid = document.createElement("video");
    vid.src = path;
    var bmp = clip.addChild(new createjs.Bitmap(vid));
    bmp.video = vid;
    return bmp;
}

An example of how to use it:

var myClip = makeBitmapVideo(this, "placeholder.mp4");
myClip.video.play();
myClip.rotation = 45;

Note that apparently this will not work on an iPad: Putting Video on Canvas

That's Apple for ya. Kill off the Flash plugin, then half-a** support the thing that's supposed to replace it.