Movie with UI elements

[Exiscoming]

I've been struggling with this one for a while now. I know there's different ways to add a movie to Ren'py, but non of them do 'exactly' what I was hoping to do.
I'm hoping to do the following:

1. Play a random clip from a pool of choices.
2. When the clip ends, randomly pick another one from the pool.
3. Have a screen overlay that adds an imagebutton that allows you skip to the next clip.

So far I've done these two:

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            label jumpHere:
                $ randomClip = renpy.random.randint(1, 2)
                if randomClip == 1:
                    $ renpy.movie_cutscene("ani1.ogv")
                    jump jumpHere
                if randomClip == 2:
                    $ renpy.movie_cutscene("ani2.ogv")
                    jump jumpHere

Problem with that is that it hides your mouse and covers up any imagebuttons you might have. On top of that, if I manage to keep both of these, what will happen when when I use an imagebutton to go to the next clip? Will it cancel the current clip playing, or will both play at the same time?

Option 2:

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image ani1 movie = Movie(play="ani1.ogv")
image ani2 movie = Movie(play="ani2.ogv")
label jumpHere:
	$ randomClip = renpy.random.randint(1, 2)
	if randomClip == 1:
		show ani1 movie				# Show the clip here
		$ renpy.pause(3.0, hard='True')		# pause to let the animation play
		hide ani1 movie				# Hide the clip here
	if randomClip == 2:
		show ani2 movie
		$ renpy.pause(3.3, hard='True')		# pause to let the animation play
		hide ani2 movie
      	jump jumpHere

With this one I can add imagebuttons to it, but it immediately jumps to the next line of code, forcing me to put in a hard pause.
Which can be kind of awkward.

So as you can see, both of them have their drawbacks. Which of the two (or possibly another way) would you suggest I use and how do I fix my problems?

[hell_oh_world]

I've been struggling with this one for a while now. I know there's different ways to add a movie to Ren'py, but non of them do 'exactly' what I was hoping to do.
I'm hoping to do the following:

1. Play a random clip from a pool of choices.
2. When the clip ends, randomly pick another one from the pool.
3. Have a screen overlay that adds an imagebutton that allows you skip to the next clip.

So far I've done these two:

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            label jumpHere:
                $ randomClip = renpy.random.randint(1, 2)
                if randomClip == 1:
                    $ renpy.movie_cutscene("ani1.ogv")
                    jump jumpHere
                if randomClip == 2:
                    $ renpy.movie_cutscene("ani2.ogv")
                    jump jumpHere

Problem with that is that it hides your mouse and covers up any imagebuttons you might have. On top of that, if I manage to keep both of these, what will happen when when I use an imagebutton to go to the next clip? Will it cancel the current clip playing, or will both play at the same time?

Option 2:

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image ani1 movie = Movie(play="ani1.ogv")
image ani2 movie = Movie(play="ani2.ogv")
label jumpHere:
	$ randomClip = renpy.random.randint(1, 2)
	if randomClip == 1:
		show ani1 movie				# Show the clip here
		$ renpy.pause(3.0, hard='True')		# pause to let the animation play
		hide ani1 movie				# Hide the clip here
	if randomClip == 2:
		show ani2 movie
		$ renpy.pause(3.3, hard='True')		# pause to let the animation play
		hide ani2 movie
      	jump jumpHere

With this one I can add imagebuttons to it, but it immediately jumps to the next line of code, forcing me to put in a hard pause.
Which can be kind of awkward.

So as you can see, both of them have their drawbacks. Which of the two (or possibly another way) would you suggest I use and how do I fix my problems?

How about this?
Use screen to achieve what you're trying to do.

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screen random_videos:
	default video_list = [("ani1", 5.0), ("ani2", 3.0), ("ani3", 2.0)] ## This list is consist of tuples, the first part of the tuple is the name of the movie, excluding the file extension, the second part is the duration of the video.
	default video_to_play = renpy.random.choice(video_list)
	
	timer video_to_play[1] action SetScreenVariable("video_to_play", renpy.random.choice(video_list)) ## The timer that will automatically play something upon the end of the video.
	
	add Movie(play=video_to_play[0] + ".ogv", loop=False):
		align (0.5, 0.5)
		
	imagebutton:
		action SetScreenVariable("video_to_play",  renpy.random.choice(video_list))
		
label start:
	"Some dialogue..."
	show screen random_videos
	"Some dialogue..."
	hide screen random_videos

Also, you could also use your 2nd method. But instead of using the function renpy.pause() use an ordinary pause statement with no duration.

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image ani1 movie = Movie(play="ani1.ogv")
image ani2 movie = Movie(play="ani2.ogv")
label jumpHere:
	$ randomClip = renpy.random.randint(1, 2)
	if randomClip == 1:
		show ani1 movie				# Show the clip here
		pause	# pause to let the animation play
		hide ani1 movie				# Hide the clip here
	if randomClip == 2:
		show ani2 movie
		pause		# pause to let the animation play
		hide ani2 movie
      	jump jumpHere

Lemme know if both works.

[Exiscoming]

Thanks for the feedback! Unfortunately, it's still not working the way I'd like.
Basically the animation as several stages, each stage with a variation.

Stage 1:
-Variation 1
-Variation 2
-Variation 3
-Variation 4

Stage 2:
-Variation 1
-Variation 2
-Variation 3
-Variation 4

It should randomly cycle through the stage 1 animations until you press the "NEXT" imagebutton and it begins rotating through the stage 2 variations.
Preferably without having to pause it myself. My first method would be good for that, but it hides the UI. Is there a way to prevent this from happening?

[hell_oh_world]

Thanks for the feedback! Unfortunately, it's still not working the way I'd like.
Basically the animation as several stages, each stage with a variation.

Stage 1:
-Variation 1
-Variation 2
-Variation 3
-Variation 4

Stage 2:
-Variation 1
-Variation 2
-Variation 3
-Variation 4

It should randomly cycle through the stage 1 animations until you press the "NEXT" imagebutton and it begins rotating through the stage 2 variations.
Preferably without having to pause it myself. My first method would be good for that, but it hides the UI. Is there a way to prevent this from happening?

I don't know if you can manipulate the layers somehow so that it will be atop of other elements. Because it is stated in the documentation that:

renpy.movie_cutscene(filename, delay=None, loops=0, stop_music=True)
This displays a movie cutscene for the specified number of seconds. The user can click to interrupt the cutscene. Overlays and Underlays are disabled for the duration of the cutscene.

Anyways, does the code work? or not? because if it is working, especially my first suggestion, then you can easily modify those to create the variation that you want to achieve. Just adding some variables, etc. would probably get it to work, that of course if the initial code does work in the first place.