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Hey Chaps and Chapesses
I am building a website for some work for uni, and it involves embedding videos in to the site… Ive got them to work all fine and dandy, but its basically a moving picture – there are no controls letting me pause, rewind etc – its either set to start playing when the page loads, or when the mouse run over it. How do I go around getting some controls on them? Both vids are over 5 minutes long, so would be good for the person watching to be able to stop and play them at their leisure.
Cheers
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Video
AVI is Microsoft’s standard Video file type for Windows. We suggest using AVI to insert video clips into your pages, since many computers and Internet servers understand it.
To insert a video clip on your web page: (you can use just about any method — ActiveX, VBScript, Java applet, plug-in, but the easy way is to simply insert a QuickTime or .AVI movie file
1. Click where you want the video onthe page.
2. Insert | Video.
3. Browse to find and select your QuickTime or AVIfile.
You’ll see the video appear only as a placeholderuntilyou use a browser or preview the page.
Remember, a little Video can goa long way on a web site. Large a video clips mean too muchdownloading time, therefore a good chance at losing your visitor before they enter your site. One alternative is to loop a shortvideo, keeping the action but cutting the download.
To loop a video clip:
1. Click the video clip placeholder.
2. Open Format | Properties (or
3. The Video tabshould be showing in the Picture Properties dialog box
4. Choose how many loops to make in the “Repeat” section of the properties box
5. Click OK.
Video Playing
Okay, now it’s time to decide when you want that video clip to play Do you want
it to start as soon as a visitor opens the web page? Or should your video start until a mouse cursor moves overit? Here’s how to control the play feature:
1. In the Editor, click the video clip’s placeholder.
2. Open Edit | Image Properties.
3. Click the Video tab.
4. Choose “On File Open” or “On Mouse Over”
You can also choose both if you’d like so that themovie will start when the page debuts and then againon mouseover.
Video Clip Control
When you add avideo clip to a web page, you can control the clip so that it will play automatically as soon as the page opens or whenmoused over.
To control a video clip:
Choose Edit | Image Properties | Show Controls in Browser
Now a control strip will appear just below the video rectangle when visitors load the page. The controls allow for volume selection, pause, play and fast-forward, and fast-rewind buttons.
Hopefully, the motion in your video clips will attract attention. Here are some layout tips which can improvethe look and position your video exactly where you want it to appear among the other elements on the page.
1. Choose the video clip.
2. Edit | Image Properties | Appearance
3. Choose an appropriate alignment (bottom, top, right, left) and use the Horizontal Spacing and Vertical Spacing values to position the video just where you want.
4. Choose “OK” to see the effect.
Sizing Videos
Edit | Image Properties
Under the Appearance tab | Go to the Size Section. enter the size (choose either pixels or a percentage) of the Window your clip will occupy. If you want a larger video, you will need to use your video editing software to enlarge the video clip.
You could import it into Flash and find a premade acrionscript code for it to rewind pause etc
Have you ever thought of searching for your real parents Ryz? I’d be asking myself the question of just how related to MadMax you really are.. it obviously aint a blood thang!
Cheers wolf – but for some reason, their is no “image properties” section in edit – think I am using a different version. (2003)
Have tried to insert it as a plugin, but I get the controls, but it wont play… Grrrr!
@TurksMeister wrote:
This is fucking frustrating – the 97 version has the button, but not 2003… how shit is that!
thats progress 🙄
use flash 8 professional – available from a good bittorrent site near you
create flash doc the size you want your movie to be
file > import vid
answer the questions
publish
this will spit out the swf and the flv and the html files you need
open the html and cut and paste the code into your existing html filesbingo
@=XDC=iNSANE wrote:
You could import it into Flash and find a premade acrionscript code for it to rewind pause etc
Have you ever thought of searching for your real parents Ryz? I’d be asking myself the question of just how related to MadMax you really are.. it obviously aint a blood thang!
😆 was this a compliment?
Hold on… I dont understand this bit…
You could import it into Flash and find a premade acrionscript code for it to rewind pause etc
Will I need to do this with Magickers method?
Follow magickers method mate, then do a search online for some actionscript (which is the coding language Flash uses), to provide you with buttons to control it, a good site for example would be Kirupa.com or http://www.video-animation.com/flash8_015.shtml for example, and see how it goes, its pretty straight forward mate – if you have further issues, just give me a shout.
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