[Pro] Problem with Quicktime Reference videos

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I’m using Freeway 5 Pro. I’ve created Quicktime Reference videos on my site and they all previewed fine, but after uploading they no longer seem to be referencing the videos.

Can you advise what I need to do? My site is http://www.anacondabellydance.com/Anaconda_Bellydance_Videos.html

I’ve been trying to get videos to work with Freeway for months but with no luck so hope you can help as I am just about at the end of my tether with this.

I saved the jpg in the Site folder, both the .mov and .jpg are in the graphic box, and I put the 3 versions (cellphone, iphone and computer) in the Resources sections. What’d I do wrong?

Ta

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When you say that you put these versions in the Resources folder, what
do you mean precisely?

If you placed extra files in the Resources folder of your Site Folder
on you Mac, then you haven’t done anything that will actually affect
your Web server. Freeway only uploads the files that it knows about –
that IT put in the Resources folder. You should treat this folder as
off limits, and let Freeway manage its contents entirely.

One way to put extra files in the Resources folder so that Freeway
will notice them is to use the Upload Stuff or Extra Resources Action
to add them. (Both of these Actions can be found on the ActionsForge.)
When you select extra files through either of these Actions, you are
instructing Freeway to put them into your site, and that hands off
responsibility to Freeway to upload those files when it uploads the
rest of your site.

The Upload Stuff Action also allows you to mark a file as belonging in
the same folder as the HTML file that it’s attached to, and that may
also help you. Depending on how you built your reference movie, the
movie may be looking for the platform-specific versions of the movie
at the same folder level as the HTML file, or it may be looking
relative to the reference movie itself. If the latter, then the extra
movies do go in the Resources folder. But if the former is true (and
you can test this easily by moving the files around using an FTP
application) then you will want to use Upload Stuff and choose your
files in the With HTML section of the interface.

Walter

On Feb 6, 2011, at 5:19 PM, Heather Hughes wrote:

I’m using Freeway 5 Pro. I’ve created Quicktime Reference videos on
my site and they all previewed fine, but after uploading they no
longer seem to be referencing the videos.

Can you advise what I need to do? My site is http://www.anacondabellydance.com/Anaconda_Bellydance_Videos.html

I’ve been trying to get videos to work with Freeway for months but
with no luck so hope you can help as I am just about at the end of
my tether with this.

I saved the jpg in the Site folder, both the .mov and .jpg are in
the graphic box, and I put the 3 versions (cellphone, iphone and
computer) in the Resources sections. What’d I do wrong?

Ta

Heather

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and I put the 3 versions (cellphone, iphone and computer) in the Resources sections

That is most likely your mistake. Don’t mess with the Resources folder - FW manages this for you and if you put files in there that FW knows nothing about then they will be ignored.

The easiest method is to drag your .mov file onto your FW page. Then apply the QT Reference Movie action to the container. In the action palette select your iPhone3G and iPhoneEdge movie files that you created earlier (the same time as you created the .mov file outwith FW) and FW will take care of the upload of them for you. You dont need to a place poster image as a background to your movie container in FW - just select it in the action palette.

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I forgot to mention - because I usually do my iPhone3G and iPhoneEdge movie files in QT Pro - that in the QT Reference Movie action palette (next to the file selectors) there are optional Generate buttons that will make those optimised files for you.

You then select them from the file selector as above.

And after just trying it I remembered why I don’t do it in FW - because it takes ages! And that was for a relatively small movie file.

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I’m sorry Delta Dave - yours didn’t work for me, have tried it, but perhaps doing something wrong. I tried generating but it wouldn’t even let me select any of the files, and Selecting I managed to select the iphone and 3G files but it still didn’t upload.
Just trying Walter’s now…

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I’ve downloaded and installed Extra Resources, but can’t find it in the Actions palette when I’ve got the graphic item selected. What do I need to do specifically to get this to function?

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Not in front of FW just now but is it not a Page action ie with nothing selected Page>Page Actions

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So have you created the iPhone3G and iPhoneEdge movie files already - and do they have unique names?

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Sorry - not a page action at all.

I prefer Upload Stuff http://www.freewayactions.com/product.php?id=032 which is a page action.

And I can’t get UER to work either!

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And I can’t get UER to work either!

Spoke to soon.

Select item. Item>Actions>Extra Resources just after the CSS3 actions if you have them.

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Hello, Just tried it, and now uploading. Is it normal for it to take an eternity to upload? It’s been stuck on the .mov (last 8 items) to load for about 10 minutes…

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Something’s not right, when I click on the image in the website it tells a plugin is required to load the video.

Is there any way I can import Freeway sites into Dreamweaver and just sort this out with code? Freeway just seems to get more irritating by the day by not allowing the code to be seen and edited if people want to

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It all depends on how large your movies are. Remember that most
broadband connections are asymmetrical, so your upstream is probably a
lot slower than your downstream. Anyone viewing this site over
broadband will have a much nicer time of it, because they will be able
to download the movie from your server at whatever their top speed is
(more or less).

I used to have a cable modem, but I got rid of it when my upstream
speed got to sub-dial-up speeds due to over-subscription in my
neighborhood.

Walter

On Feb 7, 2011, at 4:27 PM, Heather Hughes wrote:

Hello, Just tried it, and now uploading. Is it normal for it to take
an eternity to upload? It’s been stuck on the .mov (last 8 items) to
load for about 10 minutes…

H

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Aaaah!! tried both ways - resources and the html route and both have failed…

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Is there any way I can import Freeway sites into Dreamweaver and
just sort this out with code? Freeway just seems to get more
irritating by the day by not allowing the code to be seen and edited
if people want to.

You could, sure. But you won’t be able to go back to Freeway and open
those same files without overwriting what you did in DW (or any
editor). It’s a one-way trip.

Todd

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What I suggest you try - on a new blank page- with some small movie files - is start the process from scratch.

Drag/drop the movie file

Apply the action

Locate the 3G and Edge versions

Upload and test

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Does is matter where I locate the 3g and edge versions from? Should I be saving them in particular place? Got it to work in preview, but not on upload…

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No, the files should not be inside your Site Folder, though. It’s
traditional to maintain a Media folder at the same level as your Site
Folder:

Your project name/
	Media/
		somefile.jpeg
		somefile.mp3
		someotherfile.mov
	Site Folder/
		index.html
		Resources/
	Your Document.freeway

If you keep all these things together, and if you never – cross your
heart – put anything in the Site Folder yourself, then Freeway can do
what it does best: manage the whole thing for you so you only ever
have to worry about your ideas and how to best present them to your
visitors.

Walter

On Feb 7, 2011, at 5:44 PM, Heather Hughes wrote:

Does is matter where I locate the 3g and edge versions from? Should
I be saving them in particular place? Got it to work in preview, but
not on upload…

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If you’re using Freeway 5 (not 5.5) then make sure you don’t have any spaces or non alphanumerics in the filename, or in the path to the file, or the path to the folder you’re saving the movies to. This shouldn’t be a problem in Freeway 5.5.

Looking at the first movie on your site I can see that it’s looking for the movie DiskoPartizani.mov and GroundZero-iphone.m4v in your Resources folder. DiskoPartizani.mov is there but it looks like that’s just another reference movie (these are tiny and not real movie files, they just contain pointers to the actual movies).

I would say the best way to get this working is to just let Freeway manage the uploading of the files through the QTReference Action. It’s doing some stuff internally to make sure that the pointers in the reference file match up to the actual files used.

If you’re still having problems then get in touch with our support team and they can look into what’s causing the problem.

Hope this helps,
Joe

On 8 Feb 2011, at 00:14, Walter Lee Davis wrote:

No, the files should not be inside your Site Folder, though. It’s traditional to maintain a Media folder at the same level as your Site Folder:

Your project name/
Media/
somefile.jpeg
somefile.mp3
someotherfile.mov
Site Folder/
index.html
Resources/
Your Document.freeway

If you keep all these things together, and if you never – cross your heart – put anything in the Site Folder yourself, then Freeway can do what it does best: manage the whole thing for you so you only ever have to worry about your ideas and how to best present them to your visitors.

Walter

On Feb 7, 2011, at 5:44 PM, Heather Hughes wrote:

Does is matter where I locate the 3g and edge versions from? Should I be saving them in particular place? Got it to work in preview, but not on upload…

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Ah! I think I’ve tried to be too clever. I originally dragged the .mov file to the freeway site, but it was just the reference point, as I’d made all the files in QT.

I’ve now just dragged the original movie to the site, and used the action on the original movie. Is it working for you now?

If so, how do I reduce down the size of the video on the page as I wanted it a bit smaller than it is - was looking for something around 480 x 270 ish (needs to be in pro of course…)

Hope it’s worked now, I’ll have a large glass of wine if it has!

Heather

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