Dwayne

Video will always play in front of everything except control toolbox
objects. You can only control these with vba not animations so unless you use
vba it probably won't do what you need. Also the text will not have a
transparent background

What we mormally do is add the text to the video itself. This is not too
hard and requires no extra sofyware (as long as you have Windows XP of later)

There's a basic tutorial here and also a link to Austins method of using
control objects

http://www.pptalchemy.co.uk/text_and_video.html