## Using multimedia

Freeway allows you to incorporate movies and animations in a range of standard formats, including:

- Movies in QuickTime format, created by applications such as Adobe Premiere, Apple Final Cut Pro, and iMovie.
- Animations in Macromedia Shockwave format created using applications such as Macromedia Director, Flash, or FreeHand.

Both formats are widely used on the Web, and although Web browsers require plug-ins to display them, most users will already have these installed.

### To import a multimedia file

Either:

- Drag the file from a Finder window, and drop it onto the page.

An HTML item will be created the correct size for the content.

Or:

- Click the HTML icon in the toolbar and drag to draw a rectangle.
- With the item still selected, open the File menu and choose Import....
- Select the multimedia file you want to import and click the Open button to import it.

If the plug-in content is supported by QuickTime the HTML box will show a preview of the content; otherwise it shows a plug-in icon with the associated file name:

When the site is published, the file you specified will be copied into your site folder.

For each type of content the item output settings panel of the Inspector palette allows you to set specific options to determine how the content is played.

### To set options for a QuickTime movie

- Select the HTML item containing the movie.
- Click the output settings icon at the top of the Inspector palette to display the item output settings:

- Select Autoplay to play the movie automatically when the page is loaded.
- Set Loop to No to play the movie once, Yes to loop the movie, or Palindrome to play the movie forwards and then in reverse repeatedly.

### To display the QuickTime movie controller

- Select Controller on the output settings panel of the Inspector palette.
- Open the Item menu, choose Graphic, then choose Fit Box to Graphic from the submenu to make the HTML item the correct size to include the controller:

When the movie is displayed in a Web browser a controller will be provided to allow the user to control playback manually:

### To set the options for Flash animations

- Select the HTML item containing the Flash animation.
- Click the output settings icon at the top of the Inspector palette to display the item output settings:

- Select Loop to play the animation repeatedly.
- Select Play to play the animation automatically when the page is loaded.
- Choose the quality from the Quality pop-up menu.

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