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Part V
Including Multimedia Elements
Creating a poster movie requires QuickTime Pro. Simply open your movie in QuickTime Player Pro and move
to the frame you’d like to use as a preview. Choose File
➪ Export, and select Movie to Picture from the Export
options list and Photo-JPEG from the Use options list. This exports the current frame as a QuickTime Image using
JPEG compression. Choose File
➪ New Player to create a new untitled movie, and then select File ➪ Import to
import your picture into this new movie. Save your work as a self-contained movie. A good idea for a filename
might be the name of your full movie with poster prefixed.
Embed your poster movie in your Web page as described previously in this chapter and use the Plugin Property
inspector’s Parameters button to add the href attribute with the value set to the URL of your full movie, so
that the <embed> tag looks like the following:
<embed src=”my_poster_movie.mov” width=”360” height=”180”
href=”my_full_movie.mov”>
</embed>
You can also make multiple-frame poster movies. As long as you keep the file size low, your pages will seem
to load more quickly, and you provide your users more control over the way they experience them.
Streaming with RealMedia
If you’ve ever downloaded a few minutes of digital video over a slow modem connection, you know
the reason why streaming video was invented. In an age when immediacy rules, ...