Embedding Quicktime Movies


QuickTime is a popular, widely used format for video on the web that is available for both Macintosh and Windows. QuickTime movies can be straightforward videos, or they can include interactive elements including Flash, as well as interactive QTVR (QuickTime Virtual Reality) movies with 360-degree panoramas. You can insert QuickTime movies as easily as you can insert Flash movies.

1.

Open pose-demo.html from the Lesson_07_Multimedia/explorations folder and place the insertion point on the blank line below the first header in the document. Select the Common category on the insert bar, click the Media menu, and choose the Plugin option.

Dreamweaver treats QuickTime movies as plug-ins.

The Select File dialog box opens, enabling you to choose the plug-in.

2.

Locate the file Lesson_07_Multimedia/explorations/Videos/Yoga1.mov and click Choose (Macintosh) or OK (Windows) to select it.

The plug-in is embedded into the page using the <embed> tag, at a default size of 32 x 32 pixels and appears in the Document window as a gray square with a plug-in icon in the center.

3.

With the plug-in selected, use the Property inspector to change the width to 320 and the height to 256.

The standard dimensions of small QuickTime web movies that are made for the web are 320 pixels wide by 240 pixels tall. The QuickTime controller is 16 pixels tall, so you need to add 16 pixels to the height of the movie. Sometimes when you insert movies, they might appear cropped or the controller might seem to be missing. In these cases, try enlarging the amount of space allotted to the movie by increasing the width and height. When inserting your own movies, be sure to obtain the correct dimensions of the movie and add an additional 16 pixels for the controller.

4.

With the plug-in selected, click the Parameters button on the Property inspector.

The Parameters dialog box opens.

5.

Click in the Parameter column and type controller into the text field. Macintosh users should press Tab once; Windows users should press Tab twice. Type true and then click OK.

Parameters define the properties of the movies. Specifying a controller parameter with the value as true will include the QuickTime controller beneath the movie. You can set the value to either true or false. In the case of the controller, true will turn the controller on, whereas false will turn it off. If you do not specify the controller parameter with a value of true, your visitors may not see a controller.

Note

Another parameter that you can set is autoplay, which will define whether your movies start after the page is loaded or are dependent upon the visitor pressing Play. To define this parameter, you would need to add an item to the Parameters list, type autoplay in the parameter text field and type either true or false into the corresponding value text field.

6.

Click in the Document window outside the plug-in to deselect it. Save and preview the document.

It's always a good idea to let your visitors know how to use the materials that you include on your Web site.

You can click the Play button on the Property inspector to view the movie in the Dreamweaver Document window, or you can preview the page in the browser. You must have the QuickTime player installed on your machine to view QuickTime movies. You can obtain the free QuickTime player at Apple's website: http://www.apple.com/quicktime.

You can save and close the pose-demo.html file.




Macromedia Dreamweaver 8(c) Training from the Source
Macromedia Dreamweaver 8: Training from the Source
ISBN: 0321336267
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2006
Pages: 326

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