QuickTime for the Web: For Windows and Macintosh, Second Edition
A comprehensive explanation of QuickTime for every multimedia author.
TABLE OF CONTENTS QuickTime for the Web: For Windows and Macintosh, Second Edition
Chapter 3: Bust a .Mov
Overview
Before you can start putting QuickTime movies on your Web pages, you need some movies to work with. Chances are, you already have multimedia files close at hand in the form of still images, sound files, or digitized video clips. This chapter will show you how to convert them into QuickTime movies.
You can also embed these multimedia files in Web pages in their native formats and still get QuickTime to play them. Converting them to QuickTime movies has certain advantages, as you'll see.
This chapter explains
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how to create QuickTime movies from existing multimedia
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how browsers choose plug-ins for multimedia
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how to get the QuickTime plug-in to play media in other formats
Converting Existing Media into QuickTime Movies
To make a QuickTime movie from an existing multimedia file, open the file with QuickTime Player. If it opens and plays, you can deliver it as a QuickTime movie.
You can open most files in QuickTime Player by choosing Open Movie from the File menu. For text files or PICT images, choose Import instead.
As you highlight files in the dialog box, the confirmation button reads either Open or Convert. If the button reads Open, the file is already a QuickTime movie. If the button reads Convert, QuickTime can create a movie from the file "on the fly." The QuickTime plug-in can play these files over the Internet without converting them first.
If the button reads "Convert " (with three dots), QuickTime needs to create a new file in order to...
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