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 12: Just Like in the Movies
Overview
The most obvious way to use QuickTime on the Web is to put traditional movies motion video and sound on a Web page. It's easy to do, but it's hard to do well. In the first place, it's hard to make good movies. Hollywood spends millions of dollars on every production, focusing the efforts of hordes of people, and it creates expectations that are hard to meet. Meeting those expectations on the bandwidth budget of a 28.8K modem is, well, really hard.
That said, importing a movie into QuickTime, compressing it for delivery at a given speed, and putting it on a Web page are all pretty easy. The hardest part is creating a good movie in the first place. The second-hardest part is choosing the compressor settings that will look and sound the best. We'll cover the easy parts first, then give you some help with the hard parts.
This chapter describes
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importing movies from other formats
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putting movies on a Web page
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making movies for the Web
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digitizing and editing movies
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QuickTime effects
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video codecs and settings
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secrets of the Apple compressionist
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tools for capturing, editing, compositing, and compressing
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popular video format
Importing Movies
Getting an existing movie into QuickTime format is dead easy. Just open it with QuickTime Player, choose Save As from the File menu, and save it as a self-contained movie with the .mov file extension.
This doesn't change the size, frame rate, or compression of the movie.To change some or all of these...
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