Quick Time Pro 4

Adding Movies to your Web Site


This activity is fun for students and will allow them to refine their searching skills.
 


 

Obejctives:

 At the end of this activity students will be able to:
 

Getting Familiar with the Quick Time Player


Double click on the Quick Time icon and open a new Quick Time window. You should have an identical controller
on your desktop as the one pictured below.
 
 
 

Step 2:  Now you are ready to become familiar with the Quick Time Controller

Step 3:  Proceed to the Quick Time Online Help Page that will take you through the basic tutorial

Step 4: Open the window and capture :10 seconds of your video footage

Step 5:  Play the footage back using the Quick Time Player

Step 6:  Drag and drop your next sequence into the timeline.  Continue this process until you
have all your scenes in the timline.

Step 7:  Save your movie with the .mov extension

Congratulations!  You have successfully captured and created a digital movie using Quick Time 4.

Saving Files

Save your movie files in the same folder as the pages you want them linked to or you will get
a broken embed icon that indicates the file could not be found or the plug-in is not installed
on your computer.

Linking Files

To link your students movie files to a Web page add a <a href src="yourmovie.mov"> tag
to the HTML source code of the page. To do this in Composer you will need to go to the EDIT
menu and open HTML SOURCE.  Be sure you have selected an external HTML editor through
the preferences menu option first.  When the source code page opens add the tag to link your
movie in the <body> section of the document.  Save the text file, return to Composer and preview
the page in Navigator.  Advanced Web page software such as Dreamweaver,  Adobe PageMill,
and Adobe GoLive have insert options for movies and plug-ins that will embed the file on your
Web page without having you edit play with any code.

What's New

QuickTime 5 is the latest version of Apple's media player and editing software.  The new
version supports a myrid of audio and video formats including Macromedia's Flash,
advanced virtual reality authoring tools, and better compression/capture settings.  With
over 100 million users on both the Mac and Windows platform, QuickTime is a leading
product in the creation and delivery of digital media content.

To check out the public preview of QuickTime 5, click on the link above or the icon below.
 
 

Quick Time and Virtual Reality
 
 

Quick Time movies
QuickTime 5

Click here for tutorial # 2 or #3

For online support visit the Apple Quick Time Web site.
 

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This page last updated April 18, 2001 by Pamela Greyer