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Re: Can FCP do This? Can Anything?
by Paolo Ciccone on Mar 24, 2008 at 9:39:11 pm

If this is for a website and the files are in QuickTime then you don't need to modify the videos, you just need to create a SMIL file that instructs the QT plugin to create a sequence. For example:

SMILtext <smil xmlns:qt="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/resources/smilextensions" qt:autoplay="true">
<head>
<layout>
<root-layout id="main" width="640" height="360" background-color="black" />
<region id="r1" width="640" height="360" />
</layout>
</head>
<body>
<seq>
<video src="http://www.yoursite.com/videos/Header.mov" region="r1" />
<video src="http://www.yoursite.com/videos/MainVideo.mov?" region="r1" />
<video src="http://www.yoursite.com/videos/Credits.mov?" region="r1" />
</seq>
</body>
</smil>


If you replace the entries in there with your header, video and credits clips and save this as a .mov file QuickTime or the QT plugin will play it as a standard movie.
You can generate a SMIL file with a simple script, I can write it for you if you don't have the experience, or you can have the script act as a filter for all the files in a given directory in your web server and the file can be generated on the fly when the video is required.
You can also place a watermark, see http://developer.apple.com/documentation/QuickTime/Conceptual/QTScripting_S... for the whole spec.
Best of all, it's free, that's just another feature of QuickTime.




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Paolo Ciccone http://www.paolociccone.com
Hellriser Digital
Santa Cruz, CA


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