Quicktime Question

[tk4two1]

I have a Quicktime movie on my site and am wondering how I set it up so that the movie will start playing before it fully loads. I noticed that when I watch trailers on Apples site they will get about 25% loaded and then start to play. On my site it sits there not even showing the contoller until it has fully loaded. What can I do?

[aisikl]

if i'm not mistaken, you set this when encoding the movie -- Cleaner, for instance, has this option that you can select before you start encoding --
so, unless i'm totally wrong (but that will be proven quite quickly on this forum ;-)) you're gonna have to re-compress your movie to quicktime with software such as media cleaner

[brianleahy]

I, too, could be wrong but *I* thought you could achieve this by saving it as a "Streaming Movie" Try opening it in QT, then Export and save it as a streaming movie

[michaelsanford]

Streaming is (probably) not what you want.

You can export QuickTime movies in a format called progressive download, which means the movie can start playing from the hard disk as long as a portion of it has been downloaded. All of Apple's movie trailers are encoded like this, for example.

Did you make the movie yourself? What software are you using (Final Cut Pro, iMovie, AAE, etc?)

[tk4two1]

Originally posted by michaelsanford
Streaming is (probably) not what you want.

You can export QuickTime movies in a format called progressive download, which means the movie can start playing from the hard disk as long as a portion of it has been downloaded. All of Apple's movie trailers are encoded like this, for example.

Did you make the movie yourself? What software are you using (Final Cut Pro, iMovie, AAE, etc?)

I used iMovie and exported as a qucktime small web movie.