Adobe® Dreamweaver® CS4 Bible

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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, ...