Hi everybody,

I've divided a movie into a number of clips. Each of these clips I've placed on a slide.
"Play begin" triggers sequential showing and hiding of texts synchronized with the clip.

Works excellent!
In IE.
Firefox doesn't show me the texts.

More problems with FF: Display effects seem to work randomly, the formatting of textboxes seems to be unpredictible.

Grateful for your advice
Rudolf  

without trying it myself I'd suggest making a quick single page tester and re-order the elements on the page. Put the movie container at the bottom of the display stack, send to back so the text and other components are infront of it.
 

Hi Nick,
the movie container is already at the bottom.
I also suspected that the problem has something to do with display effects and cancelled "random dissolve", that made no difference.
I'll think of alternative ways to synchronize movie and text.
Thank you anyway for answering!
Rudolf  

I remember IE can determine when an mp3 has finished, FF not. I encountered the problem in another authoring system.
Maybe the sync problem with your movie is alike?  

Could easily be.
FF seems to refuse every action that is related to player status.
Should one simply say: Sorry folks, but since you are not using IE it's your own fault?
Thanks for answering  

imho not using IE can hardly be a mistake

I solved it (using another system as CL) first by timing all objects and the page. This was technically speaking the easiest sulution, later solutions were more complicated but worked better:

Later I used Flash in these cases. You might even make the whole slideshow in Flash.
A workaround is making the slideshow in Powerpoint and convert it to Flash. Not ideal but it works.

If you convert your movies to flv (which is in fact one of the two the youtube standards by years now) you might use a player which triggers a javascript function when the video has finished playing.