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In this tutorial, we are going to compress a movie for inclusion on a WWW page, use the created HTML embed tag to put it into a sample page, and upload the page and movie to your server for online viewing.
NOTE: This movie does not have a sound
track. Like the other tutorial movies, it is JPEG
compressed and will not play smoothly.
If you have a choice later in the interview,
choose "QuickTime" for the desired format. Make sure
to read the text on the left to better understand
the tradeoffs you are making.
If you selected a "Full Install" of Media Cleaner,
all the sample movies should be visible, and you should be able to move between screens
with only a short delay. If you chose the
"Medium Install" or "Minimum Install," there will be
a longer delay as you move between screens, and some or all of the movies will not be visible
unless the Media Cleaner Pro 2.0 CD-ROM is currently
in your CD-ROM drive.
NOTE: The settings the Wizard makes for you are not saved automatically. You must save them if you want to use them again.
Instead of going through the whole interview process,
you can apply a saved setting at the beginning of the interview process by clicking
on the "Select Setting" button. The Wizard will go
to the last interview screen and indicate that
you've selected an existing setting. We won't use
this feature in this tutorial, but it's useful for
future projects.
When Media Cleaner prompts you for a destination of the movie, make a new folder on your desktop named "Tutorial 2" with the "New Folder" button, then save the movie as "T2.mov". Make sure not to use spaces or any special characters in the name of your movie, because WWW movies should be named in such a way that all your viewers can access them.
NOTE: For QuickTime movies to be used on the web, you should normally keep movie names to eight characters or less, with no spaces, followed by ".mov". The ".mov" is very important without it, the QuickTime plug-in may not play your movie properly. Your server may be case sensitive, so make sure to be consistent with your capitalization.
NOTE: If you change the name of your
movie after Media Cleaner compresses it (which
also makes the HTML), you will need to manually change the embed HTML to reflect the new name.
Let the movie compress until it is done, and
the chime sounds.
Next, open the "Tutorial 2" folder. Notice that there are two different "T2" files. One is "T2.mov" and one is "T2.html".
Double-click on "T2.html" to open it
with SimpleText. This is the text that you will use
to embed your movie into your page. When you create a movie for use on a WWW page,
the Wizard normally creates this HTML embed tag.
Use the "Save as..." option to save the
modified file into the "Tutorial 2" folder. Name the new
file "MyTest.html".
NOTE: If you aren't comfortable with
uploading files, you can see what the results will look
like by simply dragging and dropping the "MyTest.html" onto your browser's icon on
the desktop.
For example, if you would normally type
http://www.aol.com/members/JoeCool
to get to your site, you should type
http://www.aol.com/members/JoeCool/MyTest.html
Once you've found the new page you've created, you can watch the movie you compressed. Notice how it starts as a QuickTime icon, then downloads as you watch. On a slow connection (like a modem) it takes a while for the black bar to move across under the movie. This bar shows how much of the movie is loaded at any point.
You can press the play button to start watching it, or wait until enough is loaded that it will start playing on its own if you selected the "Start playing automatically" option in the Media Cleaner Wizard interview.
Remember that the movie does not have a sound track, so it will be silent.
NOTE: If your movie doesn't display at all,
you may have a naming problem or other server issue. Please see
Appendix C for details. You can also click on the text that says "MovieHelp" in
the sample page to go straight to Terran's
online configuration help page.
You've now compressed a WWW movie and successfully embedded it into your web page.
Congratulations!