How To Embed A Quicktime Video
March 1, 2008
You’ve bought an Apple. You took the plunge. You just made your first Imovie and put a real sound track behind it with one of your favorite songs. You sized it into a cool looking 16:9 ratio, and best of all it looks, unlike Youtube and other flash rendering machines, CLEAR! YaHoo! (Oh, is that how they came up with that name?)
But how do you put it in your webpage? No, I don’t mean just have a link to the file, but really embed it into your page, so that it looks like your somebody, that you mean business. I ran across a real cool page today that takes your quicktime movie and automatically renders the HTML code you need to embed it into your page! Stick your movie in their (or rather the link where you uploaded it) and Presto! Out the other side comes the HTML! I’ve wanted for so long to have an embedded player that had a wide screen ratio and looked half way clear like my original video footage. Quicktime , or rather the CIT at UCSF, is the answer.
http://cit.ucsf.edu/embedmedia/step1.php
*NOTE: Here’s the bummer part: the code doesn’t work on Myspace or Orkut. I’m really surprised it doesn’t work on Myspace because I thought they rendered any HTML you wanted. And in the Orkut Scrap boxes you can put HTML. So I don’t know why it doesn’t work there either, when it works perfectly fine written in my text editor and rendered by a browser. Maybe there are some Geeks out there, who are geekier than I, that can enlighten me. Maybe it has something to do with there being no player inside those systems. But I don’t understand that. If Quicktime is on the machine wouldn’t the browser render it, play it when it reads the HTML inside those systems also? Obviously there’s some reason.
Can you imagine how much you’d rock if you could post Quicktime movies in your Myspace and Orkut? Oh, how I dream…
How to Make a Transparent Myspace Page (That You Can Still Read. Sorta.)
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This post has moved to my personal blog here: http://www.stephenpickering.com/2009/10/15/how-to-make-a-transparent-myspace-page/
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