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Embedding your QuickTime  Movie in a Web Page

 

 

© 2000 Gary S. Stager
  www.stager.org

 

Your QuickTime movie may be linked to as  a file to be played in a web browser or embedded as part of  the visual look and feel of a web page. In either event, be  sure your filename ends with .mov Filenames without  spaces are much preferred in web publishing.

 

Linking to a movie

 

 
• Upload your QuickTime movie to your folder  on a web server   
• Use the following HTML code:   

 

<P> Click < A HREF=http://www.myserver.com/foldername/mymovie.mov>here </A>to  watch my movie! </P>

 

Embedding the movie in a web page

 

 
• Upload your QuickTime movie to your folder  on a web server   
• Determine where your movie should appear  in the web page. Most web authoring tools allow you to insert  a movie and move it with precision around the page.   
• Use the following HTML code:   

 

<EMBED SRC="mymovie.mov" WIDTH=240  HEIGHT = 196 AUTOPLAY=true CONTROLLER=true LOOP=false PLUGINSPAGE=http://www.apple.com/quicktime/">

 

 
• This means that your movie, mymovie.mov, will  be played in that spot in your web page.    
• The width of the movie is 240 pixels.    
• The height is really 180 pixels, but since  you want the controller to be available for your user, you  need to add 16 pixels for it to appear.    
• The movie will play automatically since  AUTOPLAY=true. Making it equal false would force the user  to click on the movie to play it.    
• LOOP=false means that the movie will play  only once instead of infinitely.    
• The PLUGINSPAGE tag tells the users browser  where to download the QuickTime plug-in if they don't already  have it.    

 

Using a poster movie in your web page

 

A poster movie is when the web page has a  still image chosen from the movie used as a 'button' that when  clicked on by the viewer loads the actual movie. This is a  nice way to create a professional-looking page without annoying  the viewer by waiting for a movie to load every time they look  at your web page.

 

You may export a frame from your movie within  iMovie by following these simple steps:

 

 
• Move the play head along the scrubber  bar to the frame you wish to export.    
• Choose File - Save Frame As from the File  menu.    
• Give the file a one word easy to remember  name    
• Save it as a JPEG file with the file extension, .jpg (ie… posterframe.jpg)    
• Create a new project in iMovie    
• Import the jpeg into your movie and drag  it to the timeline    
• Click on the clip and then in the textbox  at the top of the timeline window and make the clip have  a duration of 00:00:01 (one frame).    
• Export this movie from the File - Export  menu option, name the movie posternovie.mov and click  Save.    
• Add the following HTML code to your page.  The changes are in bold.    

 

<EMBED SRC="postermovie.mov" WIDTH=240  HEIGHT = 180 AUTOPLAY=true CONTROLLER=false LOOP=false HREF="mymovie.mov" TARGET="myself" PLUGINSPAGE=http://www.apple.com/quicktime/">

 

This HTML instruction tells the browser to  load the postermovie and if the user clicks on it, get the  actual movie.