Embedding a QT movie in flash for website help

[Salerno]

Hello all,

This question may be more geared towards web designers/developers but I was wondering if anyone had any experience with embedding quicktime movies in a webpage?

My partner and I are trying to get our trailer posted on our website and we would like it embedded withing the webpage. We exported our one minute trailer from FCP using the H.264 codec and sent it to our webmaster.

Once our webmaster received it, he told us he was having problems "compressing" the file- as he was losing quality. What I don't understand is why he would have to compress it within the flash program, rather than just writing a code to embed it such as- <embed src="sound.mov" width="216" height="16"></embed>

Does he need to actually compress the quicktime within flash to make it a .flv or .swf. If so, then what is the point of the H.264 codec?

If anyone has any advice/experience with this situation please let me know. Thanks!

 

[Robert Pottorff]

well, it could be that he needs somthing to drop in front of the mov file - and quicktime dosent allow that. it ALWAYS stays on top, always - becuase bascily the "embed" tag is calling quicktime to load the file on top of the webpage (meaning any sort of DHTML/javascript menu sits behind)

i had that same problem - but then just decided to remove the menu's from the page showing the quicktime file

if its h.264 - dont let him compresss it to flv - you will lose all the quality you spent to get on the camera, ask him to make it pop-up in a new window (shouldent be too hard...if he has to place the file in by hand, then it should be real easy)

hope this help