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Whats a Poster Frame (or Poster Movie)? Well, you know how sometimes you see a movie that has a still image on top that says "click to play"? and then when you click it - the movie starts playing in that same space. That image is called a Poster Frame (or Poster Movie, since technically you're exporting a one frame .mov that's sitting there till you click it and it loads the movie) You can see an example of this on any movie trailer on apple.com - like this one. TUTORIAL: General Rundown: The poster frame is actually also a .mov, but it is only one frame long! This is what I do: I like to put graphic/text on my poster frame, so I find the frame I want to use as the initial picture and I copy it. (yes, in Quicktime you can actually just click your mouse on the frame and copy it!) If you dont want to use an image from the movie, then just go to the next step below. Then I paste it into Fireworks (use whatever program you'd like, hopefully it will be as seamless) and in there I add my text and such. Then I flatten the image, and go back to Quicktime and hit File, New Player - and paste my image into that new player window. Then I just hit File, Save and save your one frame movie - i.e. "avocado_slicer_poster.MOV". FYI for some reason when I do Export to save my movie (as I do when I'm exporting to optimize the video) it doesn't work get the poster frame working. So that's why I just do File, Save. FYI - I have had times where all of a sudden my image wont paste into a new QT file for some reason. If this happens to you - paste it into your movie (ideally the first frame so you don't lose it), then hit the arrow back key to find that frame/image again - and THEN copy it & paste it into a new one. Then - place the files in the same directory - and use this embed code, replacing "avocado_slicer_poster.MOV" with your poster image movie and "avocado_slicer.MOV" with your movie name. This code is for this movie. (note: it can be .mov or .MOV - mine just happens to be caps, but it does NOT matter)
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