Published a Mov File and I get a Quicktime Symbol with a ? What can i do?
I published a site with iWeb with a .Mov file in it about 20 seconds long. When it finished publishing, i checked out the website and instead of the video playing, i see a QUICKTIME symbol with a (?) question mark on it. what can i do to make this work. should i format the .Mov file to avi, mpeg-4 or another? help me guys, pls. thanks.
It's not an iWeb issue. Rather a QuickTime one.
Your original movie is 29,1MB (rather large for 20 seconds) and 960x540 pixels and Apple Intermediate Codec.
It is displayed on your webpage as 772x450 (not proportionally).
When I scale it to 800x450 (proportionally) and export it to QuickTime as h.264 and Faststart it only is 709kB.
About 1/40th. And hardly any noticeable loss of quality.
Lately there's an influx of videoprofessionals who have difficulty putting their movies on the web. Perhaps some masterclasses would be in order.
I'm not a professional, but I think I know a trick or two:
http://www.wyodor.net/iFrame/
I use QuickTime Pro, iMovie and my [poor mans's RED|http://www.theflip.com].
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