Using multimedia

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

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:

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

Or:

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

To display the QuickTime movie 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