<table border="0" cellpadding="20px" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td><div class="breadcrumbs"><a href="1_11_9_4.html" title="Audiences and Multiplexer options">Previous</a> | <a href="1_11_9_6.html" title="Metadata options for Internet movies">Next</a> | <a href="1_11_0_0.html">Exporting Movies</a> > <a href="1_11_9_0.html">Exporting movies for the Internet</a></div><h4 class="head2">Alternates options for QuickTime movies</h4><hr /><ol><p class="paragraph">Alternate movies are movies that are identical in content to the file that you have already provided settings for, but which have different data rates in order to accommodate the system abilities of any user. Used in conjunction with <span class="Emphasis">reference movies</span>, you can be assured that your movie plays back satisfactorily for any audience, regardless of their connection speed.</p><p class="paragraph">For example, you can create one web-based movie intended for high-speed audiences by using high-quality video and audio settings, but also concurrently create an alternate movie with a lower data rate. Then, you can choose to concurrently create a reference file that points to both movies. If a user with a slower connection then attempts to play your movie, the reference file detects this lower speed connection and plays the alternate that is optimized for lower speeds. You can make any number of alternate movies. You must have QuickTime Pro to use this feature. You can also use this feature just to make several copies of a movie with varying quality settings without necessarily choosing to create a reference file.</p><p class="paragraph">You can change the following Alternates options for QuickTime movies:</p><p class="note"><img src="images/tip.gif" alt="Tip" height="20" width="20" /><span class="bold"> </span>Some options function identically to the Video or Audio export options. For options not listed here, see <a href="1_11_9_3.html">Video and audio options for Internet movies</a>,<a href="1_11_8_2.html">Video export settings</a>, or <a href="1_11_8_4.html">Audio export settings</a>.</p><p class="run-inhead">Add Alternate</p><p class="paragraph">Specifies the type of alternate movie to create. Choose the alternate that best matches the audience that you want to reach. You can choose as many alternates as you wish. Each one that you choose appears in a list below the Add Alternate menu. To edit the settings for each one, just click it to select it. To change the name of the alternate, double-click it and enter a new name.</p><p class="run-inhead">Alternate Movie</p><p class="paragraph">Specifies whether an alternate movie is created.</p><p class="run-inhead">Alternate filename Prefix</p><p class="paragraph">Specifies the prefix for each alternate movie file name.</p><p class="run-inhead">Create Reference File, Fallback </p><p class="paragraph">Specifies whether a reference file is created. You can also choose to embed one of the alternates into the reference movie. </p><p class="run-inhead">Target path</p><p class="paragraph">Specifies the location for all alternate movies.</p><p class="run-inhead">Connection</p><p class="paragraph">Specifies the viewer's connection speed that will trigger the alternate movie. For example, if you choose 28.8/33.6 Kbps modem, and the reference file detects that the viewer's connection speed is 28.8/33.6 Kbps, the alternate movie will play. </p><p class="run-inhead">Language</p><p class="paragraph">Specifies the language for the alternate movie. If the reference file detects that the viewer has set a certain language as their preference (viewers set this preference in their QuickTime player)and you specify a language option, the alternate movie that matches the viewer's language preference will play.</p><p class="run-inhead">Platform</p><p class="paragraph">Specifies the platform compatibility of the alternate movie.</p><p class="run-inhead">Quality</p><p class="paragraph">Specifies the quality ranking of the alternate movie. This setting is useful if you create several alternate movies, all with the same connection speed setting, but with slightly different audio and video settings. To differentiate them for the QuickTime player, you can rank them according to quality. The QuickTime player will attempt to play each one, from the highest to the lowest quality, until it finds one suitable for the connection speed.</p><p class="run-inhead">Computer power</p><p class="paragraph">Specifies the alternate movie that plays in response to the viewer's computer power.</p><p class="run-inhead">Version</p><p class="paragraph">Specifies the alternate movie that will play according to the version of the QuickTime player that the viewer owns. For example, you can create several alternate movies and assign each one a different version compatibility. When a viewer with a specific version attempts to play your movie, the reference file triggers the movie that corresponds to the viewer's player version. This option is useful for backward compatibility.</p><p class="run-inhead">Server path</p><p class="paragraph">Specifies the rstp server path where your movies are posted.</p></ol><hr /><div class="breadcrumbs"><a href="1_11_9_4.html" title="Audiences and Multiplexer options">Previous</a> | <a href="1_11_9_6.html" title="Metadata options for Internet movies">Next</a> | <a href="#top">Top</a> | <a href="1_11_0_0.html">Exporting Movies</a> > <a href="1_11_9_0.html">Exporting movies for the Internet</a></div></td></tr></table>
