Embedding video in dreamweaver
by Robin Seymour
on
Oct 1, 2008 at 4:53:56 pm
Hi Guys!
I'm bravely putting together my own website using DW for the first time.
I have a page of video (6 films) that I want to post up.
1. I've looked at .flv files and found them to be quite 'crunchy' a bit pixelated and not great compression especially around text and logos. Are my compression settings wrong, or is this just what you expect from this format? I'm thinking of sticking with good old quicktime which seems better.
2. Ideally I'd like to get the quicktime movies coming up when you click on them like this:
Re: Embedding video in dreamweaver by Robin Seymour on Oct 3, 2008 at 2:10:21 pm
Thanks for that.
I've figured out how to do the stuff in the tutorial, but if you look at the example page I posted you'll see the way that it displays the QT movie is somewhat different.
Re: Embedding video in dreamweaver by Ericsson Chu on Nov 27, 2008 at 11:44:24 pm
I'm wondering how to get the video window to animate within the transparent div that pops up (so it kind of zooms out from the button like the example site shown).
Re: Embedding video in dreamweaver by Abraham Chaffin on Nov 28, 2008 at 4:30:12 pm
What sort of animation are you looking for? If you're looking for the popup window to sort of zoom out or fade in then you're going to have to add some additional javascript to the function that allows it to appear.
Some javascript you could use would be changing the size and position of the div or animating the transparency property. Let us know if you do anything like this as it would be a good example of other ways to use the tutorial.
Re: Embedding video in dreamweaver by Robin Seymour on Nov 28, 2008 at 4:51:40 pm
Hi Abraham, yes, I want it to zoom up to the middle of the screen, and grey out the parent webpage - you can see the effect on www.apple.com
I know this requires a bit of javascript, but wondering if anyone had a quick and easy way of doing it, or a dummy's guide to incorporating the script into dw or the html script. JW Media Player is one of the scripts available. Anyone have any ideas?
