OT: how to embed a movie into e-mail

[Walter Biscardi]

I use H.264’s all the time. the end user has to have Quicktime 7 installed, but I email 30 – 60 spots all the time just using the Quicktime 7 Download presets in Compressor.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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[Chris Poisson]

Hmmm,

But how do you make it so that the file plays? When I attach QT’s to an e-mail, all I see is the QT icon, not the movie. The reciever has to drag the movie onto their desktop to play it, and what I want is to have it play IN the e-mail.

[Steve Eisen]

Read Walter’s responce again. Both you and the recipient of the e-mail MUST have QT 7 installed on their system. I send H.264’s via e-mail all the time. I use the same technique as Walter. If my files are to large for e-mail, I will use yousendit.com.

Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Director-At-Large
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group

[Christian Kinnard]

Have you tried HTML embeding? A number of years ago I had to create a email mailer “postcard”, where I had to embed graphics/links into an email. It’s a bit tricky, if I remember right you can’t do it through mac Mail, at least you couldn’t then, I had to use my host company mail server (ipowerweb), and the was a setting to create HTML email. Could work, a search on google HTML email will point you in the right direction.

Christian

[Enge]

From Apple.Inc…

QuickTime: Embedding QuickTime for web delivery
Learn how to embed QuickTime content on an Internet web page.

Thetag allows media file types other than those directly supported by the browser to be handled with an external application or plugin. In this case, the external application is QuickTime Player and the plugin is the QuickTime Plugin.
With the release of Internet Explorer 5.5 SP2 and later, you must use an

[Miodrag Ristic]

Hi Chris,

As movie is going to be viewed mostly on Windows machines, you should export it as
a WMV file – not many PC users have an QT installed.
I think Squeeze should do it, I’m using Flip4Mac.

With Flip4Mac is easy, just export from FCP as Windows Media Video (WMV),
keep it small (320 x 240, mono, 15 fps).

Open you mail, attach your movie, you should be able to see it and play it
straight in your mail application, as well as your friends.

I’m using this method to send proofs to my clients sometimes.

Don’t be confused that your movie still has a QT looking icon,
there is an.wmv extension that is telling you what file you’ve got.
Quick Time is anyway just a wrap (inside can be various codecs, Sorenson, H.264 etc.)

Cheers

Mick

[13]

I personaly disagre that Windows Media is the most universal.

Flash is by far the most universal.

[David Roth weiss]

[zrb123] “Flash is by far the most universal.”

Macromedia has certainly been touting that, however, the reality is that Flash 8, the only really good version of Flash for encoding video, is not universal by a long shot. Lots of people in this world still have older Flash players installed on their computers that cannot play Flash 8, and so anyone trying to make a go of using Flash as their number one web video format for sending out their work will be very disapointed when to find out that their work isn’t being seen by a lot of people they are targeting.

I happen to like Flash 8 a lot. Its a great looking codec that creates very managable file sizes, but, that doesn’t make up for the problems I’ve encountered when trying to get unsophisticated people to actually watch Flash 8 encoded video on their computers. At the first L.A. Flash users group meeting I attended, one of Macromedia’s top evangelists even showed off some code that he said could be embedded into Flash video, that would prompt users for a really fast automatic Flash Player 8 update. It sounded great. Unfortunately it wasn’t. Not one person I tested it on could actully get it to work.

I think WM9 is still the most reliable and most universal web video format.

DRW

[13]

Good point about the version of flash that people might have however people could say the same thing about other formats windows media and quicktime.

I think it is fair to say that there is no one universal file type. what works for one may not work for another, there are just to many factors involved.

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