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Joseph W. Lowery

"Dreamweaver CS3 Bible"

When the user
clicks a poster movie, it replaces itself with your full movie, which begins downloading or streaming immediately.
A poster movie can be a preview of the full movie that replaces it or a generic QuickTime image, as shown
in the following figure. It??™s even possible to use poster movies to place a number of movies in a single page,
enabling the user to choose which ones to view without downloading the rest, as shown in the following figure.
Creating a poster movie requires QuickTime Pro. Simply open your movie in QuickTime Player Pro and move
to the frame you??™d like to use as a preview. Choose File ??? Export, and select Movie to Picture from the Export
options list and Photo-JPEG from the Use options list. This exports the current frame as a QuickTime Image
using JPEG compression. Choose File ??? New Player to create a new untitled movie, and then select File ???
Import to import your picture into this new movie. Save your work as a self-contained movie. A good idea for
a filename might be the name of your full movie with poster prefixed.
Embed your poster movie in your Web page as described previously in this chapter and use the Plugin
Property inspector??™s Parameters button to add the href attribute with the value set to the URL of your full
movie, so that the tag looks like the following:


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