Uploading Quicktime Movies to iWeb

I've exported a photo slideshow with music to Quicktime movie format, but even though I've selected the small size file, when I try to upload it to iWeb, I get a message saying that the file's too big. I can't figure out how to make it any smaller, and it already looks to me like the quality is compromised -- the pictures are blurry in the smaller file size, and I'd like people to be able to view it in a larger window. Suggestions? Thanks!

Just because iWeb says your file is too big does mean that you can't use it. It just means that it will take longer to download for the end user.
The file size selected as being "too big" is arbitrary. It really all depends on the speed of the internet connection used to download the file.
The best thing to do is publish it and see for yourself if it takes too long to download.
One of the things you can do is to put a text introduction on the same page for viewers to read while the movie downloads. As long as people have something to hold their attention they will wait a bit longer.

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Quicktime Movies and iWEB

Anyone having problems posting movies in iWEB. I posted a few nad when I launch the site it won't platback.

Anyone having problems posting movies in iWEB. I
posted a few nad when I launch the site it won't
platback.
I have. I posted a topic on it and haven't gotten any suggestions. Movies, audio and video will work fine on the .Mac site, but won't work on the non-mac site. 1.01 worked fine on both but since upgranding I haven't been able to figure out the problem. Here are the addresses:
http://www.salemcityfire.com
http://web.mac.com/jpelura3
the "Test" page is a small audio file. The "Movies" page is a rather large file. The Fire Calls page has some audio too, that's more like a podcast.
I would appreciate any help and am not sure if the OP is publishing to .Mac or another site.

Optimizing Quicktime Movies for iWeb 08- HOW?

Hello,
Question about converting a movie I made for my web site uploading to my .Mac account - using iWeb 08.
When the full quality movie is open in Quicktime Pro, and you click on export for web, you get this info box saying this:
In the same folder as this instructional HTML file, QuickTime Pro has placed various versions of your movie optimized for web-delivery. Also in that folder is a reference movie, which selects the best version for your users' various devices and connection speeds. By including this reference movie in your HTML page, you can ensure a quality video experience on your site.
THEN IT GOES ON TO SAY...
Use the following HTML code to embed your movie into your web page.
Important Notes:
•To make your media viewable on the internet, your media assets (movies, poster image) must be placed on a publicly accessable server.
•The URL parameters must be modified if your media assets are served from a different location than your web page.
•The movie URL parameters must always point to the reference movie (Fluid-Cam Test.mov) rather than a source movie.
•The reference movie must be kept in the same folder as the source movies.
•Source movie names cannot be changed, but you can change the name of the reference movie (remember to change it in the HTML code as well).
•Please note, to properly validate as XHTML, the <style> tag and the first <script> tag should be placed within your page's <head> tag.
•Use this code in the <head> of your web page:
(AND THEN THERE IS A BUNCH OF CODE AFTER ALL THIS- WHICH I DIDN'T BOTHER TO TYPE HERE OF COURSE)
There are no instructions (that I can find) explaining where this code goes, which optimizes your movie for various formats. You can't drag and drop this whole folder into an iWeb Movie page.
So where do you copy and paste this code in iWeb, that Quicktime creates from your movie?
Any input is appreciated!
Thanks!
- TEXASFLOOD

Best way I know is to put the movie into Iphoto, select it, go to "share" and choose to iweb. It will go straight to a new page in iweb which you can rename and include in your site.

Nobody can watch my quicktime movie in iweb!!

I made two movies in iMovie and imported them directly into iWeb. I can watch them on my website and so can the apple tech people, but most importantly my professor cannot! I am the only one using a mac for this class - does anyone know if this could be a glitch between PC/mac? Or has anyone else had this kind of trouble with Quicktime 7.0.4???
I'm frantic cuz it's for my final that was due on Friday!!!! TIA
Vicki

It could be that you are using the latest and greatest video codec called H.264 to encode your movies and your professor's PC doesn't have the latest version of QuickTime 7 to be able to decode the movie. This usually results in a blank white movie frame with audio.
Two choices depending on which might be easier given your individual situation... Get your prof to upgrade his QuickTime player to the latest from Apple... or ... reencode your movie with anything other than H.264 if you know how to do that. Good luck!
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Quicktime movies in iWeb??

I want to include a lot of movies in my site I have presently 8 of them but when you go to the page they all have to load. Is their a way to create a button or link to a file that will open the movie in a specific section of the page and when another link or button is hit the other mowie will play in the same area? To prevent the loading of all the movies or the visitor playing them all at once.
Thanks
Guy

How large is the file size?
My guess is over a gigabyte and that is just not practical for Web use.
If the large QuickTime icon appears on the page for more than 30 seconds I would also guess that the file has lost its "fast start" properties. That would mean that the entire file must download before playback could begin. With such a huge file that could take a day to download.
Save As using QuickTime Pro will fix the fast start feature.

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I have a Quicktime movie with pictures, video clips and music. The quicktime movie plays fine in Quicktime, but only the video parts upload to YouTube. How do I fix this? I have tried converting from mov to flv before uploading and same problem.
I have uploaded Quicktime movies successfully with just pics and music and it has worked.

I'm hopeful this explanation will fix this same problem I've been banging my head on for several days now as I thought I would get fancy and add some graphics from .jpgs but stretch them into video segments by properly adding them to the working video in QTPro on Windows. Both Youtube and Yahoo Video removed my graphics (tracks) so hopefully flattening will solve it however I am concerned about quality.
Before the graphic .jpg adds I was doing the following:
1. My vids strart off as MP4's from various clips taken from nother device. I load them into QT Pro in segments and then end up saving so they go to the .MOV format.
2. I upload to Youtube and all is good.
Now with the flattening of .MOV back to MP4's how much quality will I lose? Should I really add the graphics as part of step one and then the one time save to a default .mov cause me one generation less of video quality loss?
Tks for the help.

More on QuickTime movie autoplay problem

I am trying to understand what is going on with the QuickTime movies that feature progressive load, and autoplay... as in they are loading, but they are not autoplaying on ANY of my machines, where this used to work just fine before when the same movies were hosted on pages created with .mac homepage.
I have a bunch of movies on my website, nearly a gig worth. When I got iLife, I wanted to recreate the movie pages using iWeb. I went to my iDisk, and simply copied the folder of web movies down from the Movie directory on iDisk to a local folder. All of these movies were compressed using H.263, and featured progressive loading, play immediately, etc. This feature WORKED when the movies were on Homepage.
So I get into iWeb, make my movie pages, and load these movies into the pages via the media browser. I upload the movies using iWeb's publish button.
AND when visiting the pages, I am given a big blue Q, with no indication of what is going on until after the movie is completely loaded. No autoplay, no quickstart, nothing, despite the fact that the local QuickTime settings indicate that I want to have these things play as they download.
Even when the movies are totally loaded, one must still click the play button to get them to start.
There is something very strange happening in between taking the source movie, copying it into the iWeb project, and uploading it. The result is that fast play during loading doesn't seem to work anymore.
One user gave a procedure for fixing this, but it does not seem to remedy the situation. I have tried copying the original movie to my local drive, re-exporting it with the appropriate settings for fast start, copy it back to the proper iDisk folder, and still no autoplay during download.
Is this a bandwidth problem of .Mac? Is this an issue with the movie file being tweaked by iWeb? Any ideas?

I don't use Homepage or iWeb, or even my iDisk, like most users. Probably not as Apple intended, too.
I create a page the "old fashioned" way. Hand coding the html files.
Why have your nice movie file shoved (and scaled) to fit into a template? Why not have some more control over its playback features?
The first part of my hand coding is to use "blank" pages. Black or white backgrounds (color if you wish) and a display to take advantage of the newer video codecs.
I export using H.264 at 320X240 size to keep the file size low. By hand coding I can display these same files at 640X480 or even 800X600 in my Web pages.
Changing the html code from scale="aspect" to scale="tofit" and editing the dimensions used in the code to these new numbers is an easy fix.
Some of your current 100MB movies could be remade (from the original source files to preserve visual quality) into 10 to 20MB H.264 320X240 (or even smaller if you want to use the template pages) movies.
We all win! Faster uploads and downloads. Free up valuable iDisk space!
Another neat trick about hand coding is that you get to use the full set of features found in modern browsers and QuickTime. Many of my pages use "Presentation" settings and call the QT Player app instead of the browser plug-in. This allows you to display your movies "Full Screen".
http://homepage.mac.com/kkirkster/B/
A full screen display of a file under 3MB's.
There are our iDisks! And they should reflect our work (not Apple's templates).

IWeb and Quicktime Movie Upload 2013

Three or so years ago, I made a website using iWeb (the last version Apple produced; i.e. the current version), and I included some videos. The videos were from a digital (tape) video camera, edited with iMovie HD, and were old-format 640x480. I managed to work out how to set the movies to start quickly (before fully loading) using iMovie and QuickTime. I dropped the movie into a regular iWeb page, resized it, put the settings up with the iWeb inspector, and all was well. The movies played (and still play) on Safari and Firefox, on my Macs and on an Asus Windows machine I have. (They won't play on my iPad - if anyone can tell me why, I'd be grateful; I'll probably put the original DV through a more recent version of iMovie and QT, and upload again.)
I want to make another similar website. However, my camera is now a HD tape model, and I have made my peace with iMovie '11 and worked out how to use it. My machine is the latest Mac Mini, and so QT is the latest also. I run Mountain Lion.
I made a movie with iMovie '11, and exported a quality version. I opened it in QT and chose 'Export for Web' and selected the option which gives me three different sizes. After some struggles, I worked out how to put this into my uploaded iWeb (test) site (although I have to say that the instructions Apple's QT gives are not the clearest), and it works, even on my iPad.
My questions concern the code which QT says you should upload. The code in the <body>, I understand, and it's obviously necessary to play the movie.
But about the <head> tag QT says:
Please note, to properly validate as XHTML, the <style> tag and the first <script> tag should be placed within your page's <head> tag.
Here's the code QT says to paste into the <head>
<script src="scripts/prototype.js" language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="scripts/qtp_poster.js" language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript"></script>
<link href="stylesheets/qtp_poster.css" rel="StyleSheet" type="text/css" />
However, the movie playback still seems to work without uploading the code for the <head> of the page. And there is NO <style> tag, and why only the FIRST <script> tag?
The <head> on the page iWeb produces for my test page already has a lot of code:
<head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
    <meta name="Generator" content="iWeb 3.0.4" />
    <meta name="iWeb-Build" content="local-build-20130116" />
    <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7" />
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=950" />
    <title>Ed's Video Test</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen,print" href="Eds_Video_Test_files/Eds_Video_Test.css" />
    
    
    <style type="text/css">
/*<![CDATA[*/
    @import "Scripts/Widgets/HTMLRegion/Paste.css";
/*]]>*/
</style>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="Scripts/iWebSite.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="Scripts/iWebImage.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="Scripts/iWebMediaGrid.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="Scripts/Widgets/SharedResources/WidgetCommon.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="Scripts/Widgets/HTMLRegion/Paste.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="Eds_Video_Test_files/Eds_Video_Test.js"></script>
</head>
Questions:
1. Should I put the QT code in the <head> tag anyway, even though it seems to work without it?
2. If I don't put it in, does that mean the choice between the three movies doesn't take place? I don't have a smartphone, but the playback on my 27" screen, my Asus netbook, and on my iPad all look fine without the head code.
3. If I do put it in, where exactly do I put it, and do I need to replace any of the code that is already there?
4. The original iWeb drag and drop method still seems to work fine with movies direct from iMovie (and plays even on my iPad), but obviously you can only put one version of the movie on a page. Is there still a good reason for using the multi-size version which involves manually uploading the movie and opening the page after uploading and inserting code for every movie? For example, I have a very fast internet connection. Maybe it's kind to those with a slower connection to put up the smaller movies also?
And, since I'm here, I have a couple of slightly related questions:
5. I designed my site (it's non-commercial, just a trip report, but with a lot of pages) to not need any scrolling even on quite a small desktop screen (you click on from page to page like a book, but you can also navigate around sections more easily this way; anyway that's how I like it). But on the iPad, held horizontally, the width is resized to take up the full width of the sceen, so you then need to scroll down. It's really annoying me. Is there some code I could put in to tell the iPad not to do this (there are plenty fewer vertical pixels on my website's pages than on the iPad screen)? (I don't care about phones, because the site is photo-based so looking at it on a phone is pointless in my opinion. And netbooks with only 768 vertical pixels are not particularly important to me either, but the iPad screen is plenty big enough for the site to work the way I want it to.)
6. And I want to include slideshows of photos without using the iWeb/iPhoto system (which brings up an external window in a different colour). I want the user to be able to see the thumbnails, to start and stop an on-page slideshow, and for me to be able to put captions (descriptions) with the slides. There seem to be a lot of options, and I still haven't finished looking at all the ones I got from the web. But does anyone have a good recommendation - paid or free?
Thanks for reading this long thread, and for any advice.

See the second method described on this page for how to add the code to an HTML Snippet...
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/Website-Movie-Video/Poster-Movie.html
The prefered method of playing movies on websites is to use an HTML5 player with flash fallback for older browsers. Using this method, you can get away with only one video file - an MP4.
In this section of iWeb for Musicians you can see examples of several different types of flash fallback players...
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/Website-Movie-Video/Poster-Movie.html
The latest version of flowplayer has all the features that I want in a player and allows several movies on a page by loading only the poster image. It has the added advantage of turning off one player when another is selected...
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/Website-Movie-Video/Flow-Player-5-2.html
iWeb uses a fixed width page so it is not possible to use it to create a page that will respond to different browser widths. You need to create a version of your site to suit each type of device or use a responsive design like this...
http://www.ezmacwebdesign.com/responsive-sidebar/
As far as slideshows are concerned there are just so many of them. See this section of iWeb for Musicians for examples...
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/Banner-Slideshow/Slideshow-Showcase.html
Some more examples using iWeb....
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/iweb-snippets/gallery.html
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/iweb-snippets/slider.html
An example of a dual slideshow with a separate window for the image and the caption...
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/iweb-snippets/map-tutorial.html
Finer swiping for mobile devices...
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/iweb-snippets/swipe.html
A modern slider that uses no javascript and makes use of the new(ish) CSS transitions...
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/iweb-snippets/flux.html
Shadowbox is a very versatile version of the Lightbox style...
http://ezmacwebdesign.com/Demo/shadowbox/shadowbox.html
... and can be used as a standalone or along with jQuery, Mootools etc...
http://ezmacwebdesign.com/Demo/shadowbox/shadowbox.html

QuickTime Movie File-Uploads on iWeb but no playback on the internet

Hello, Forum Techies,
Always trying to go beyond and want a movie clip on my website, but I may have met my match
I have the following QuickTime Movie file uploaded to the web page as noted below.
The file extension is MVI_038-#3-13. The file size is 663.8 Mbs
The website space is 1 GB using 10 Mbs upload speed.
The movie clip does not play on the website.
Question arising: I believe the space is sufficient on the website, but not sure if it this is a internet speed issue? I have other movies mounted successfully on another website, but their file size is not a huge and the webspace is not as much.
Therefore, I am curious to know if it is an internet speed issue?
Here is the URL for the page that I have included the movie clip:
http://thebigbenmemorialtrail.ca/Backgrounder_Trail_Scouting.html
It's a well visited site internationally and because it is a major project in our County, documenting the construction of a new trail is an interesting feature to include on this website.
Hope there is a solution. And, YouTube is not an alternative because for some strange reason I cannot get signed on no matter what efforts have been made with Google and I am not able to find a channel that applies to this kind of a movie, which is not entertainment, musical, etc. It's an information-based movie.
Thanks!

This is the movie :
http://thebigbenmemorialtrail.ca/Media/MVI_0368-%233-13.MOV
It's not an extension, it's the filename. Sanatize it.
Size = 632MB (Megabyte)
663.8Mbs = Megabits per seconds = speed
Videosize = 1280 x 720px
Filesize after download = 10.3MB (download stops at this size)
Nobody will wait for this.
Resize you movie to something smaller ie. width x height = smaller filesize.
Use common sense.

Resizing Quicktime Movies for use in iWeb + published to .mac

Hey everyone,
I have some home movies I want to post on my .mac website but the files are just too big. The movies are already in Quicktime format from my camera. It just takes forever to upload and forever to download when you view the site.
How do I go about dropping the file size of my quicktime movies? Any suggestions should be helpful.
Thanks

Smart move to get QT Pro! It will now be possible to do this:
When exporting From iMovie or Final Cut, the expert settings choices can be daunting to understand. Here's a simple solution. Whenever you find a QT video online that has the download arrow (down facing arrow) at the far right of the play time line and you're impressed by the quality you see, once the movie has fully loaded, click on that arrow.
With QT Pro you'll see a drop down menu appear that offers 'Save as Source' or 'Save as QuickTime Movie'. Usually either choice gives you the same type of file. Save to your desktop . Then open and play. As the movie plays, go to the Quicktime menu at the top of your screen and choose from 'Window' ...Show Movie Info. Eureka! There are almost all the settings used to create that movie
To keep a photo record of this movies settings (if you don't keep the movie) line the player and the info window side to side and do a Apple key+Shift +4 targeted picture snap. Store the pic you just created in an iPhoto folder labeled 'QT Info Pics' as a later reference. In fact, Apple key+ Shift + 4 (targeted) or Apple key + Shift + 3 (Full Screen capture) used with 'Get Info' windows and iPhoto storage is a great quick & easy record keeping system.
Have fun!
Wayne
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PSS Once dragged to an iWeb page you can alter the physical size (reasonable amount) of your movie while file size stays the same.

HD quicktime movie create page with iweb and host externally?

I made a 3
min HD movie the file is 1.5gig I have an account with
blue host that allows me 300gigs of space. I uploaded the movie no problem.
Now i want to make a web page with a link to that movie using iweb.
So in other words i design the simple page on i web and than upload it to
bluehost. How do I size a quicktime movie to be the correct size example
852x480? on the templates the movies are to small?

How did you fit a 1.5GB file into 300MB's of space?
What viewer is going to wait two or three hours (weeks on dial-up) to view a 3 minute file?
Your best solution is to link to file and let your viewers download it. Just use the complete URL as your link.

Quicktime movies slow to upload

Dear Team
Is it possible to get Quicktime movies to be ready to play on accessing the page? At the moment I have four very short movies – each under 4MB on a page. It is taking about a minute, sometimes more, for them to upload. I’ve tried them on individual pages but the same problem.
Also impossible to get them to play all the way through in the program itself – they stop, start and jump.
I have followed instructions and converted movie to Quicktime movie, and then compressed them even more. The file size doesn’t seem to make much difference.
Any help very much appreciated.
Thanks
imac G5 OSX 10.4.10

Sometimes depends on how you encoded it to begin with...
For example:
Starts right away (that's a tag in iWeb to auto play)--
http://web.mac.com/captmench/Site/ZacharyFilms/Entries/2007/9/1_ElmoShirt.html
Loads right away but must click play --
http://web.mac.com/captmench/Site/ThreeBoysMovies/Entries/2007/6/11_Entry1.html
and
Won't register until almost fully loaded
http://web.mac.com/captmench/Site/ZacharyFilms/Entries/2007/8/25_Portion_ofThyself.html
Not sure why the last one is like that other than in previous versions of QT not associated with iWeb08 (that seems to have fixed this)... I had to encode these movies with fast internet play. But then, if I changed the posterframe it would loose that tag and I'd be left with a slow internet play.
How did you encode and is what's happening to you the THIRD option here?
CaptM

How do I make quicktime movies Fullscreen in iWeb?

How do I make quicktime movies Fullscreen in iWeb? Can anyone help me please?

You have to create a QTL file that opens the QT movie in the player. Based on the settings it opens in Full Screen.
You may want to read this:
[QuitTime Tutorials and more|http://www.apple.com/quicktime>
[Launching QuickTime Player from a Text Link |http://developer.apple.com/documentation/QuickTime/QT4WebPage/samplechap/speci al-11.html]
An alternative is to publish your movies to Vimeo and embed the movie in your page. These movies can play full screen.
Or use DivX of Flash Video.
Samples here: http://web.mac.com/wyodor/iFrame/

Uploading Quicktime Movies to iWeb

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