QuickTime Reference Movies (EN)

QuickTime reference movies are QuickTime files that contain pointers to different version of the same movie. When QuickTime plays the movie it will decide which version to play based on the device that is being used. A higher quality version will play on regular desktop computers and a choice between two lower quality versions will be made on iPhones depending on the network speed.

Making QuickTime reference movies is really easy in Freeway 5.2.1 and above.

1. Draw an HTML item

2. Drag a Quicktime movie into the item or select it from the File>Import dialog

3. Apply the QT Reference Movie Action to the item

4. Click both the Generate buttons in the Action palette to make the smaller versions of the movie (for the iPhone/iPod)

5. A button will be displayed on the movie, the default text for this button will be Click to Play. Type your own message in the Message field or leave it blank to have no button

6. This Action will use a poster frame for the movie so it won't play automatically (this is to replicate the way that the movie will appear on the iPhone/iPod). By default the first frame of your movie will be used, if you want to use something else select it from the Poster Frame pulldown

7. Preview the movie in the browser or Freeway to see it working. The iPhone simulator doesn't play movies unless they are on the Internet so you will need to upload the site to test on that