QuickTime - Tutorials

QuickTime movies aren’t just for playing--they’re for playing with. Movies can interact with you, with your browser, with a server, and with other movies. They can act as control panels, games, puzzles, musical instruments, and much more.
Load web pages With Plug-In Helper, you can make any movie or its video tracks into clickable links that load web pages or QuickTime movies into a web browser, QuickTime Player, or the QuickTime plug-in.	Link to URLs HREF tracks can make the movie’s display area into a clickable link that points to different URLs at different times during playback. Find out more about HREF tracks.	Click on the QuickTime sprite to make this movie 'blink'. Click on me to load a web page via QuickTime.
Activate sprites System events such as mouse-clicks and keystrokes can be wired to a sprite in a sprite track and trigger more than 70 preset actions, including nested conditional and recursive structures. Sprites tutorial.	Add pop-up menus Words and phrases in text tracks can be hyperlinks or act as a pop-up menu of entry points to chapters of a movie. Find out more about text tracks.
IInteract with Flash Flash tracks can incorporate interactivity supported by Macromedia’s Flash, including custom movie controllers. Wired sprite actions can be linked to Flash animation. Learn more about Flash tracks.	Run JavaScripts An available JavaScript helper handles most of the complications of embedding a Java applet for you. (JavaScript control of QuickTime in Microsoft Internet Explorer is currently unavailable on Windows computers.)
Access with Java The entire QuickTime API is fully accessible through Java. With Java, you can write your own QuickTime-compatible applications, or run Java applets from QuickTime over the web inside a browser.	QuickTime API Batch process with AppleScript. * QuickTime is compatible with AppleScript. Use scripts to automate repetitive tasks, such as opening, annotating, hinting, and exporting a batch of movies. Download sample scripts.

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