Adding a QuickTime movie to your Web page

You can add a QuickTime movie to your Web page and set it to automatically play when a browser downloads the page or include a movie controller allowing your audience to start the movie when they want.

Your audience must have the appropriate QuickTime plug-in application for their browsers as well as a QuickTime movie player on their computers in order to view the movie. When you insert a QuickTime movie into your Web page, Claris Home Page automatically inserts a link to the QuickTime Web site where these applications are available for downloading. If your viewers do not have these applications on their computers, they will see a dialog box where they can activate this link.

QuickTime movies must have the extension .mov or .snm for a Web browser to recognize them. In addition, if you create a QuickTime movie on a Macintosh, you must "flatten" the movie (remove the resource fork) so that it can play on all platforms. Flattening is not necessary for movies created in QuickTime for Windows. A flattening tool is available at the QuickTime Web site.

Note You must preview your page in a Web browser for the movie to run.

Inserting the QuickTime movie

When you insert a movie into your Web page, Claris Home Page displays a movie icon in your Web page while in Edit Page mode. To view the actual movie, you use Preview in Browser mode.

To insert a QuickTime movie into your Web page:

1. Place the insertion point in the page where you want the movie to appear and choose QuickTime Movie from the Insert menu.
   
2. In the Open dialog box, select the QuickTime movie file (it must have the .mov or .snm extension) and click Open.
   
   If you have QuickTime installed, a movie icon appears on your Web page.

Opening the QuickTime Object Editor

Once you insert the QuickTime movie into your Web page, you use the QuickTime Movie Object Editor to set the play options, and change other attributes of the movie, such as the width and height. You can also use the QuickTime Movie Object Editor to add your own HTML to the movie element.

To open the QuickTime Movie Object Editor, do one of the following:

• Double-click the movie icon.
  
• Select the movie icon, and choose Object Editor from the View menu (Windows) or Show Object Editor from the Window menu (Macintosh).
  
• Select the movie icon, and click the Object Editor button on the toolbar.
  

To apply the new settings, press Tab or click the close box of the QuickTime Movie Object Editor.

Setting the movie play options

In the QuickTime Movie Object Editor, you can set Claris Home Page to

• automatically play the movie when the page is downloaded
  
• play the movie continuously, repeating it until you close the page or stop it using the movie controller
  
• display a movie controller so someone viewing the movie can make it stop
  

To make the movie play automatically when the page is downloaded:

1. Select the movie icon in your page and open the QuickTime Movie Object Editor.
   
2. Click the Parameters tab and select No from the Loop pop-up menu.
   
3. Click the Auto-play check box.
   
4. Apply your changes by closing the QuickTime Movie Object Editor.
   

To make the movie play continuously:

1. Select the movie icon in your page and open the QuickTime Movie Object Editor.
   
2. Click the Parameters tab and choose Yes from the Loop pop-up menu if you want it to play forward continuously. Choose Auto-Reverse from the Loop pop-up menu if you want it to play forward and then backward in a continuous loop.
   
3. Click the Auto-play box.
   
4. Close the object editor to apply your changes.

Changing the size of the movie window

You can use the QuickTime Movie Object Editor to change the size of the movie as it's displayed in the page. You can also use the mouse to change the width and height of the movie.

To change the size using the QuickTime Movie Object Editor:

1. Select the movie icon in your page and open the QuickTime Movie Object Editor.
   
2. Click the Parameters tab and type a new size in the Width and Height text boxes.
   
3. Choose Percent to make the size a percentage of the browser window's size. Choose Pixels to make the size a fixed amount that is not affected by the browser window's size.
   
   Tip Press Tab to apply a new setting without closing the object editor.
   
4. Close the object editor to apply your changes.
   

To change the size using the mouse: Select the movie icon and drag the bottom handle to change the height of the movie, drag the right-side handle to change the width of the movie, or drag the lower-right corner handle to change the width and height at the same time.

To change the size back to its original setting, click the Original Size button in the QuickTime Movie Object Editor.

Testing the QuickTime movie

To test the movie, you need to preview it in a browser. You also need to test it on the same machine that has the Movie Player or QuickTime application.

To preview the QuickTime movie:

• Hold the mouse button down on the Preview in Browser button on the toolbar and choose a browser from the pop-up menu.

Adding extra HTML to the movie element

You can add your own additional HTML directly to the movie element using the QuickTime Movie Object Editor.

Note This is an advanced feature that requires knowledge of HTML; it specifies additional parameters for the <EMBED> tag.

To add extra HTML to the movie element:

1. Double-click the movie icon to open the QuickTime Movie Object Editor.
   
2. Click the Extended tab and type the HTML in the Extra HTML Attributes text box.
   
   The HTML that you type is added to the <EMBED> tag.