Can you setup thumnails for video clips on a single web page and all the videos do not open when page downloads?
by 2ulady
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Sep 17, 2005 at 9:05:30 pm
I am new using Dreamweaver, and I'm not too familar about inserting several videos clips in a single web page. I would like to know if you can setup several video clips using thumbnails on a single web page to setup to view alternately at the viewer choice? I DO NOT want the videos to open all at the same time when the web page finish downloading. The video clips are in Quicktime format. I want the video clips setup to be viewed when you click on the thumbnail of the video of your choice. Can this be done using Dreamweaver MX 2004? Can someone tell me how I can do this type of setup, or if it can be done? I hope I explained myself clearly. I really need help to do this, if it can be done.
Re: Can you setup thumnails for video clips on a single web page and all the videos do not open when page downloads? by Bret Williams on Sep 19, 2005 at 3:52:43 pm
I think it can be done. I did it for one video clip on my site. Can't say I really know HOW to do it, but I saw it done on an apple web site and just copied their code. The gist is that you create a 1 frame quicktime as your thumbnail and give it a link. The target of that link is "MYSELF" and the real movie would then play in place of the thumbnail movie.
You could save the page to your local drive and open in DW or just look for the block of code for the quicktime. I actually did this site in GoLive so there will be a lot of code that DW doesn't understand. In any case it doesn't matter. You'll have to copy and paste the thumbnail code by hand.
