Dan LaValley Manager Biology New Media Center

Thanks to Dan LaValley of Learning Technology & Distance Education for creating this tutorial.

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QuickTime Pro ($25.00 - UW departmental price) will allow you open up media files and export them to many different formats.

 

 

Exporting Files

1. Open file in QuickTime Pro.
2. Choose Export from the File Menu.
3. Choose the Export Format under the Export Menu.
4. Click Options to specify compression settings.
5. Choose Settings under Video and Sound to specify all export functions.
6. Click OK.
7. Click Save

 

Making QuickTime Reference Movies

Reference Movie Files are a small text file which opens up QuickTime Player and points to a QuickTime movie or movies. There are several reasons to use Reference Movie Files. First, the .mov extension can often be claimed by other players during installation. When you create a Reference Movie File, you can use the .qtl extension which will provide greater assurances that QuickTime will be used to view the file. Second, Reference Movie Files are used with streaming servers to point to different versions of a movie based on connection speed. This small file is then placed on your Web server and linked to on your Web page. It is then launched by a user and the correct version of the movie is delivered.

MakeRefMovie PC | Mac

Once you have processed all your movie clips, and have placed the files on the streaming server, you will create links to these using MacRefMovie.

1. Launch MakeRefMovie
2. Enter the name of your reference movie. Click Save.
3. Choose Movie | Add URL.
4. Enter the URL for each clip. The URL would be rtsp://mediastreamer.doit.wisc.edu/"your account name"/folder or file location/
5. Click OK.
6. Specify the connection speed for this clip to be delivered.
7. Repeat for each clip.
8. Choose File | Save.