I drag an mp4 movie into FreewayPro - plays fine, but its about half the size (LxW) than I want it - cannot figure out how to make it larger - tried clicking and dragging on the corners etc… no luck. Nothing on the palette seems to work.
Am sure I’m missing something obvious - how should I be enlarging the movie?
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Try drawing an html item to the size that you want your movie. Then select the html item and go to the file menu and choose “Import” and then navigate to and a select your movie file.
Hope that helps.
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If you apply the QuickTime Extras Action to the movie, you can toggle
the “movie scale” property with a picking list. Use ‘Aspect’ in order
to maintain the ratio of height to width.
Walter
On Jun 24, 2008, at 2:33 AM, hevans wrote:
I drag an mp4 movie into FreewayPro - plays fine, but its about
half the size (LxW) than I want it - cannot figure out how to make
it larger - tried clicking and dragging on the corners etc… no
luck. Nothing on the palette seems to work.Am sure I’m missing something obvious - how should I be enlarging
the movie?Regards
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Sometime around 24/6/08 (at 10:46 -0400) Walter Lee Davis said:
If you apply the QuickTime Extras Action to the movie, you can toggle
the “movie scale” property with a picking list. Use ‘Aspect’ in order
to maintain the ratio of height to width.
But be aware that QuickTime movies are specifically screen-resolution
entities; they should normally display at a 100% pixel-for-pixel
size. scaling them up will involve a loss in final presented quality.
UNLESS the movie has somehow been set to show at 50% of normal size,
something which might, I think, be possible.
Open the movie in QuickTime Player and make sure it is the size you
expect when set to normal size. Does it look smaller than that when
placed into your Freeway layout?
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Thanks for the advice, I was able to get this far my issue is resizing
the movie itself - My Movie is about 2 inches by 2 inches, my html box
is 4x4 - how do I get the movie to fill the 4x4 box. I had expected
that I could simply drag the movie out by the corners… but this
does not seem to work… it seems that the only resize option is to
reduced the “box size” to the move…I want to go the other way.
Any thoughts or advice?
Regards
Limey
On Jun 24, 2008, at 8:25 AM, Rich Gannon wrote:
Try drawing an html item to the size that you want your movie. Then
select the html item and go to the file menu and choose “Import”
and then navigate to and a select your movie file.
Hope that helps.
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Sometime around 24/6/08 (at 09:27 -0600) Hugh Evans said:
I had expected
that I could simply drag the movie out by the corners… but this
does not seem to work… it seems that the only resize option is to
reduced the “box size” to the move…I want to go the other way.
Movies cannot normally be resized like this in any final delivery
software, that’s really something that should be done in video
authoring/editing tools. As I mentioned earlier, QT movies are made
with specific pixel resolutions and are normally meant to be shown
using precisely the same pixel area of the screen.
Rather than describing the movie size in inches, which is actually
close to meaningless when it comes to on-screen content, could you
find out:
(a) the standard pixel dimensions of that movie (look in the Info
window in QuickTime Player) and then
(b) the pixel dimension of the box the movie is in on your Freeway page?
Let us know. More advice may follow once we have this info.
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Keith - sorry for the confusion - I was simply trying to find an
abstract way of saying that I wanted to import a movie and scale it
on the web page - Quite honestly - the real dimension is irrelevant.
It could be an 2x2 to 4x4 or an increase of 5% or whatever… I was
simply looking for a way to do this… I can do all kinds of scaling
with graphic files in Freeway - obviously this impacts resolution etc.
But it can be done.
I’m very used to being able to click on a QT movie and drag it out to
any size… my experience has been within iWeb, Pages, Keynote, Word
etc. etc. so I’m not so sure that my expectation was so
extraordinary…
I did download the QT Extras+ action but I was not able to install
it… (file was grayed out)
Limey
On Jun 24, 2008, at 10:13 AM, Keith Martin wrote:
Sometime around 24/6/08 (at 09:27 -0600) Hugh Evans said:
I had expected
that I could simply drag the movie out by the corners… but this
does not seem to work… it seems that the only resize option is to
reduced the “box size” to the move…I want to go the other way.Movies cannot normally be resized like this in any final delivery
software, that’s really something that should be done in video
authoring/editing tools. As I mentioned earlier, QT movies are made
with specific pixel resolutions and are normally meant to be shown
using precisely the same pixel area of the screen.Rather than describing the movie size in inches, which is actually
close to meaningless when it comes to on-screen content, could you
find out:(a) the standard pixel dimensions of that movie (look in the Info
window in QuickTime Player) and then(b) the pixel dimension of the box the movie is in on your Freeway
page?Let us know. More advice may follow once we have this info.
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Sometime around 24/6/08 (at 10:57 -0600) Hugh Evans said:
I’m very used to being able to click on a QT movie and drag it out to
any size… my experience has been within iWeb, Pages, Keynote, Word
etc. etc. so I’m not so sure that my expectation was so
extraordinary…
From that stance, no. From my point of view, I understand why it
isn’t so great and I can separate out the apps that do allow this
directly from those that don’t with ease - the former are generally
consumer, non-pro tools (I regard Word as definitely non-pro when it
comes to anything other than words & numbers!), and the latter are
generally media-authoring apps of one sort or another. A curious
distinction, but one that makes a certain amount of sense from both
directions.
But please, I don’t mean to imply that your expectation was a bad
one! I’m just seeing it from a different angle.
Walter pointed out an add-on action called QuickTime Extras that adds
exactly this functionality; it lets you tell the movie to scale to
the container. This won’t show in Freeway’s design view, but it does
work very effectively.
It is in the Softpress site. I’d go find the link for you, but my
wife’s just called and I have to go meet her…
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Tell your wife it’s actually a Core Action, ships with every copy of
Freeway since version 2.
Walter
On Jun 24, 2008, at 1:22 PM, Keith Martin wrote:
Walter pointed out an add-on action called QuickTime Extras that adds
exactly this functionality; it lets you tell the movie to scale to
the container. This won’t show in Freeway’s design view, but it does
work very effectively.It is in the Softpress site. I’d go find the link for you, but my
wife’s just called and I have to go meet her…
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Thanks Keith - By the way, I’m using Freeway 5.1
I downloaded QuickTime Extras AND QuickTime Extras +
Went through the Edit Actions - Install Actions Dialog and both Actions were grayed out and could not be imported via the file dialog box.
I then did a get info on each Action file to see what the extensions were on the downloads so I could determine vintage and where maybe to install them by hand and/or rename the file extension - however, neither Extra or Extras + had a file extension…
So - anyway, I copied the files into
~/Library/Application Support/Freeway 5/Actions/
restarted Freeway, and I still cannot see these actions…
If anyone has any thoughts - please advise.
Regards,
Limey
On Jun 24, 2008, at 11:22 AM, Keith Martin wrote:
Sometime around 24/6/08 (at 10:57 -0600) Hugh Evans said:
I’m very used to being able to click on a QT movie and drag it out to
any size… my experience has been within iWeb, Pages, Keynote, Word
etc. etc. so I’m not so sure that my expectation was so
extraordinary…
From that stance, no. From my point of view, I understand why it
isn’t so great and I can separate out the apps that do allow this
directly from those that don’t with ease - the former are generally
consumer, non-pro tools (I regard Word as definitely non-pro when it
comes to anything other than words & numbers!), and the latter are
generally media-authoring apps of one sort or another. A curious
distinction, but one that makes a certain amount of sense from both
directions.But please, I don’t mean to imply that your expectation was a bad
one! I’m just seeing it from a different angle.Walter pointed out an add-on action called QuickTime Extras that adds
exactly this functionality; it lets you tell the movie to scale to
the container. This won’t show in Freeway’s design view, but it does
work very effectively.It is in the Softpress site. I’d go find the link for you, but my
wife’s just called and I have to go meet her…k
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Hi all - solved it thanks.
The action was already installed - the + version showed up under
“Users” .
Thanks,
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Sometime around 24/6/08 (at 13:32 -0400) Walter Lee Davis said:
Tell your wife it’s actually a Core Action
She would be SO uninterested! 
ships with every copy of Freeway since version 2.
Not since 2.0, I’m sure. I remember writing the first QuickTime
Extras action, back when those were rather simpler beasts to make,
surely it wasn’t before 2 was released? I used it in a tutorial on
making Freeway actions.
I’d forgotten that it had later been rebuilt (by people smarter than
me) and packaged with the app.
I’ve actually modified the current one to let me set a movie’s width
and/or height dynamically as a percentage of its container. This
would have been absolutely perfect for me sorting out my panoramas.
Sadly, IE has big problems with a div that is scaled relative to the
window and content that is scaled relative to it: the dumb browser
collapses everything down to zero! Arrgghh!
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