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
Saving Movies
So far, you've been given recipes that tell you to use QuickTime Player to work with a movie in some way, and then to Save, or Save As (self-contained), without an explanation of why one method of saving is appropriate instead of another. We'll rectify that now. This section covers the different ways to save a QuickTime movie. You'll also find some tips for naming movies that can save you a bit of grief. And we'll give you a proper list of behaviors such as looping or autoplay you can save as part of a movie.
When you first save a QuickTime movie, you have to give it a name and choose whether to make it self-contained. On your own computer, the movie probably plays equally well whether it's self-contained or not, and no matter what you name it. But these decisions have important consequences for the Web.
What's in a Name?
On your computer, a file may be allowed to have blank spaces or characters other than numbers and letters in its name. But a movie intended for the Web must have a name that doesn't confuse the Web server's file system, the viewer's file system, or any browsers.
For example, a movie named My Movie cannot be used on most Web servers, and a link to will fail on a variety of browsers and operating systems. One problem is the blank space, another is the lack of a file extension. Use MyMovie.mov instead.
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