I’m working on a website in which I have an embedded Quicktime Video. Because of the size of the video, which I’ve already compressed, the page is loading really slow. Does anyone know how I can improve the performance of this web page?
http://idealynx.com/clients/cs/imaging.html
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Kelly
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Well I unchecked the Autoplay box and that helped a little, but there has to be a better way to handle videos.
Plus, I’m wondering if Quicktime is the best solution for a predominately Windows world, which may be why the video I’m using was originally formatted as a MOV file. Any advice?
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Okay, I’ve successfully reduced the MV4 file size from 13.6 MB to 7.8 MB using Quicktime’s Export for Web feature. That, plus turning off Autoplay, seems to have helped a lot.
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This is a common opinion, but it ignores the fact that almost all of those Windows computers are hooked up to an iPhone, iPod, or iPad at some point in their lives, and thus have QuickTime installed. Apple wisely includes the entire QuickTime stack in the iTunes software (actually, I have heard it said that QuickTime is the operating system that iTunes for Windows is written in) and so there’s no excuse not to use it.
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On Jan 13, 2012, at 8:06 AM, Kelly Crossley wrote:
Plus, I’m wondering if Quicktime is the best solution for a predominately Windows world, which may be why the video I’m using was originally formatted as a MOV file. Any advice?
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I totally agree Walter. I was worried more about the size of the QT video I was using and how it was affecting my page load, but I’ve seem to have resolved that with the solution above, so I guess I’m good to go. Thanks!
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Video is naturally large. Multiply width by height by number of frames (12 - 30 per second of running time), and that’s a lot of data. You can certainly make a page containing video that loads snappily – all you need to do is use the poster frame feature. There’s a built-in Action for this. What that does is put a JPEG of a particular frame on your page, and then set that so it responds to a click to load the movie into the page. Look at Apple’s Movie Trailer page for an excellent example of this.
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On Jan 13, 2012, at 9:39 AM, Kelly Crossley wrote:
I totally agree Walter. I was worried more about the size of the QT video I was using and how it was affecting my page load, but I’ve seem to have resolved that with the solution above, so I guess I’m good to go. Thanks!
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Really? That sounds perfect. What’s the action called and do you have a link to instructions on its use?
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QuickTime Reference Movie. Look in the Freeway manual, it’s a core (built-in) Action.
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On Jan 13, 2012, at 10:02 AM, Kelly Crossley wrote:
Really? That sounds perfect. What’s the action called and do you have a link to instructions on its use?
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Walter, I can’t find that section in the manual. The document I’m looking at is called Freeway5.5Reference_ScreenVersion.pdf. Is this the correct manual. What page is it on?
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I found it Walter. What’s the best way to create a jpeg of one of the frames in the video?
On 13 Jan 2012, 1:56 pm, waltd wrote:
Video is naturally large. Multiply width by height by number of frames (12 - 30 per second of running time), and that’s a lot of data. You can certainly make a page containing video that loads snappily – all you need to do is use the poster frame feature. There’s a built-in Action for this. What that does is put a JPEG of a particular frame on your page, and then set that so it responds to a click to load the movie into the page. Look at Apple’s Movie Trailer page for an excellent example of this.
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On Jan 13, 2012, at 9:39 AM, Kelly Crossley wrote:
I totally agree Walter. I was worried more about the size of the QT video I was using and how it was affecting my page load, but I’ve seem to have resolved that with the solution above, so I guess I’m good to go. Thanks!
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What’s the best way to create a jpeg of one of the frames in the video?
One of the easiest ways is to take a screenshot.
You can use the Grab application to take a picture of all or part of your computer screen. These pictures are often called “screen shots” or “screen captures.”
To take a picture of your screen with Grab:
Open Grab (located in the Utilities folder in the Applications folder) and choose a command from the Capture menu.
Open Grab
Selection: Takes a picture of a part of the screen that you select.
Window: Takes a picture of a window you select.
Screen: Takes a picture of the entire screen.
Timed Screen: Lets you start a timer and activate part of the screen (such as a menu), and then takes a picture of the screen.
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I should add that Grab creates a tiff - open the tiff in Preview and you can then save as a different format and adjust compression etc.
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Okay, that worked great, but what if I don’t want to display any kind of a message, like Click to Play. Can I turn that feature off entirely?
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Does anyone know?
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