I’m struggling to think of how you could do this in Freeway without resorting to some draconian measures like using Source Code Snooper (or a text editor) to rewrite the Freeway-generated object/embed tag. I’m also not sure if the JavaScript that Freeway uses to generate the embed (and thus work around Internet Explorer’s weirdness) would not error out if you did this, because your code was trying to access a foreign URL.
But to try, what I would do is publish your page (be sure to set the Output to More Readable in the Document Setup dialog before you do, so you don’t go blind searching through one long line of code), then open it in a programmer’s text editor, like the free and fabulous TextWrangler from http://barebones.com and locate any references to your movie.
These will probably look something like src="Resources/yourMovie.mov"
or something similar. Try editing that line, replacing the Resources/yourMovie.mov part with an absolute URI to the QuickTime file on the other server.
Save the altered file, and use an FTP application like Transmit or Cyberduck to replace the Freeway-generated version on your server, overwriting the Freeway original as you do.
Then test from your server. I’m pretty sure that any errors that will occur will only expose themselves if you are viewing the page from a Web server. Previewing locally is a completely different security context and you might not see any issues, while others will.
If this works, then you will need to repeat this incantation each time you publish your site, because Freeway will notice that you changed the file, and will overwrite your changes with the original code.
You can step around this problem if you plan to alter the other pages in your site, but don’t want to change the movie page, by making a copy of the text-edited version of the file and moving it outside of your local Site Folder. Once that copy is safely stashed somewhere else, Freeway will no longer overwrite it, and you can simply copy the altered file up to your server after each upload from Freeway.
Walter
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