Is it possible to place a video inside a frame or behind an object to crop it?

I'm trying to place a video behind a psd of a TV screen that is a different aspect ratio than the placed video. When I try to place it inside a frame or behind the psd with a clear window, it will not export to interactive pdf as such. It shows the vid full size. Is there any way around this?

Lauragalora119,
There's a way around this. But it takes a few steps.
Place your video as usual.
Now, create a frame that would be the outside of the TV screen. Now create another curved corner rectangle that would be the screen of the TV. Select them both. I would make these outside the area of the video as you don't want the video to be the in the next step.
With those two frames selected, choose Objects> Pths> Compound Path Make.
You now have a hole in the frames.
Fill with a color or Paper. Optional: Import an image of the woodgrain of a TV set.
Now, with this compound path selected, choose Buttons and Forms and make this a button that does nothing.
Now, if you were to export this as a PDF, the video will play "inside" the screen frame but it's really playing behind a button. The button is on top of the video because it was on top of the video in the ID file.
However, you can't click on the video to play it because it's behind the button. PDFs don't recognize the holes in compound paths.
SO, back in InDesign, I created a little round button that I would consider the dial to turn on the TV. (I'm old enough to remember televisions that had rounded objects to turn them on and off. You may want a more digital looking object.)
This button will have an action applied that plays the video.
TaDa!!! You've done it!
And your day is not ruined.

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