can you pause imported video?

[humanistheart]

I was doing a little test animation where I imported video, making it look like it was playing on a tv, but have not been able to figure out how to pause the imported video. For the purposes of that test I just took a picture and made it appear over the video at the point I wanted to pause it, which was hardly seamless. I assume there is an actual way to pause the imported video though, so if anyone knows how that would be great.

-thanks!

[slowtiger]

No, you don't have any playback control over imported video other than:
FPS (speed)
loop yes/no
start and end point (gtes invisible outside).
For your intended effect you may chop up the video into smaller parts, plus still images for the pausing bits. Put everyting into a switch layer and adjust playback start of video via sequencer.