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The Export QuickTime LabChart
extension lets you save LabChart data as a QuickTime movie. You can view
the movie in a QuickTime Player, or insert it into other applications,
including Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Internet browsers, and HTML
pages. You can play, scroll, read comments and make measurements from
the data in your QuickTime movie, as if you were using the LabChart program
itself. What is more, QuickTime movies are cross platform, so they can
be played back on any system that supports QuickTime.
If you are developing (internet or intranet) web-based teaching material,
Export QuickTime will allow you to incorporate LabChart data. You can also
use QuickTime movies of your LabChart data in presentations, or make QuickTime
movies for your students to view away from the classroom.
A QuickTime Player or plug-in is required to view QuickTime movies.
You should direct your users to the Apple
web site where they can download the latest player for FREE.
Embedding a QuickTime Movie
Inserting QuickTime movies into web pages, is a relatively simple and
quick procedure.
To make the linking of files easier, place the movie in the same folder
as the web page. Note the width, height (e.g. 240W x 180H) and title
of the movie (e.g. LabChartDemo1.mov). Open the appropriate web page, in
an HTML editor such as Dreamweaver (a simple text editor would do).
Select the position on the page where you would like to insert the movie,
and access this position in the HTML source code (this should be within
the BODY section of the code.) At this place in the source code, insert
the following HTML script and customise it for your movie title and size.
<embed src="LabChartDemo1.mov" width="360" height="280" pluginspage="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/" autoplay="true"></embed>
Note that the width and height parameters determine the size of the
window reserved for the movie player on the web page. Decreasing these
parameters will not shrink the movie, but will cause the browser to mask
part of the movie as it plays. Since this is undesirable, we recommend
that you experiment with these settings to ensure that all of the movie
shows when it is displayed by various browsers. You may find that allowing
another 20 pixels beyond the true width and height of the movie is required.
For example if you save the movie using ExportQuickTime as a 240 x 180
movie, we recommend you allow the following: width="260" and
height="200".
Once the movie has loaded into the browser window, it will automatically
start playing. To change this, set the autoplay attribute to false, i.e.
autoplay="false".
The user can pause, rewind to the start, or scroll through the movie
by using the controller at the bottom of the QuickTime player window.
To view a page with a demo LabChart movie embedded, click
here.
Linking to a QuickTime movie
As an alternative to embedding the movie into a web page, you could simply
create a link to the movie. Clicking on the link will then open the
movie in QuickTime Player, or within a new browser window (depending
on the browser and platform).
If the user does not have the QuickTime player or plug-in, they will
need to download it for FREE from the Apple
web site.
To link to a QuickTime movie within a web page, include the following
HTML script within the BODY section of the code:
<a href="LabChartDemo1.mov">Click
here to show the movie LabChartDemo1.mov</a>
Clicking the link when the page is displayed in a browser, will open
the movie in one of several ways depending on the browser and platform:
(i) a QuickTime player window (Internet Explorer for Mac) or
(ii) a new browser window with a grey background (Netscape Navigator
for Mac), or
(iii) a new browser window with a white background (IE and NetscapeNavigator
for Windows).
The movie will start playing as soon as it downloads. The user can then
pause, rewind to the start, or scroll through the movie by using the
controller, which is a part of the QuickTime player window.
As an example of linking to a movie, click
here to view a LabChart demo movie.
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