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Producing Fast Multimedia | Delivering Multimedia | Compressing Audio and Video | Special Effect Options | Transition Options
Electrifier Pro creates multimedia which can easily be delivered to the web or to other software programs.
Electrifier Pro multimedia can be seamlessly imported into any standard WYSIWYG website design tool or can easily be embedded on a web page using simple HTML.
Electrifier Pro can also be simply integrated into any other program which supports QuickTime, from Director to Microsoft word.
Embedding a QuickTime movie created with Electrifier is simple. If you are using a visual HTML editor such as PageMill or Cyber Studio, import the QuickTime movie into the page as you would any other element. If you are generating the HTML by hand, using a text editor, you will need to set up the necessary tags for the example you are creating. The necessary HTML code to embed a QuickTime movie on a page is:
<embed src="URL" pluginspage="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/" width="h" height="v">
Additional parameters may be added following the height of the movie, as desired. If you don't need to adjust the playback options for your movie, you can omit all the optional parameters.
src="URL"
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/preview/samp/trans/samplest/explode.mov
or a relative URL such as samplest/explode.mov
. pluginspage="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/"
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/
which will point to the latest version of the plug-in. width=h
hidden
tag instead.scale
tag, the movie will be cropped or padded to fit the embedded box, as necessary. height=v
hidden
tag instead.scale
tag, the movie will be cropped or padded to fit the embedded box, as necessary.
For a list of additional HTML attributes for embedded Quicktime movies, see the QuickTime Plug-in HTML options section of the Appendices.
To use QuickTime movies on your web pages, your Web server needs to be configured to recognize the QuickTime file name extensions and assign them the correct MIME type. MIME (Multipurpose Internet Multimedia Extensions) types are used by web servers to identify what kind of data they are sending.
Most Internet Service Providers (ISPs) have already configured their web servers to support QuickTime. If yours has not, the server will need to be reconfigured.
Some ISPs maintain a single set of MIME settings fro the entire server, in which case the settings must be changed by the system administrator rather than the user. The configuration files and settings for the most commonly used Web servers are as follows:
Server | Configuration file | Text |
---|---|---|
NCSA | srm.conf | AddType video/quicktime mov |
Netscape | mime.types | type=video/quicktime exts=mov |
Apache | srm.conf | AddType video/quicktime mov |
Some ISPs allow the user to set MIME settings for their own files as an alternative to changing the configuration of the entire server. In this case, you can create a file to add the MIME types in your personal web directory. The configuration files and settings for the most commonly used Web servers are as follows:
Server | File | Text |
---|---|---|
NCSA | .htaccess | AddType video/quicktime mov |
Netscape | .nsconfig | <Files *.mov> |
Apache | .htaccess | AddType video/quicktime mov |
If you use another server, you will need to consult your server' documentation for configuration instructions. The MIME type for a QuickTime movie is video/quicktime and the correct file name extension is mov.
Animated GIF files are intended for simple, short animations, since they are much larger in file size than QuickTime 3 files, and cannot be interactive.
Electrifier's animated GIF export has been carefully tuned to allow the GIF to mirror the Electrifier animation as closely as possible. VR and 3D actors will be converted to images before exporting, but the soundtrack should be exported as a separate Wave file, which can be included on a web page along with the animated GIF.
There are various options for tuning a GIF to achieve the optimum balance of quality and size. Electrifier allows you to choose the color palette, number of colors, and whether to use transparency, interlacing, or dithering. GIF optimization takes some practice, so we encourage you to experiment to find the best settings for your purposes.
Wave files are intended for simple, short audio clips, since they are much larger in file size than QuickTime 3 files, and cannot be interactive.
The export options for Wave files are the same as the audio options for a QuickTime 2.x movie, except that the Wave format does not support compression, so the only available compressor is None.
Producing Fast Multimedia | Delivering Multimedia | Compressing Audio and Video | Special Effect Options | Transition Options
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