Hi Nick, Blip TV recently announced that they were going to make a DIY clickable advert creator, which I would imagine would help you create a clickable outro just fine. But I can't find any reference to it on the Blip site.
Other than that, there are a few ways of doing it, but none of them particularly easy. At least, not as easy as they should be. And few of them free. You can use an embeddable flash player with a service such as Brightcove, which allow you certain links overlaid on top of the image, but that's no good for podcasting. As far as I know, you can't do it with a Windows WMV file Revver (and others) do it with Flash FLV and Quicktime MOV files, I believe. I don't know how to make an FLV file clickable. Someone else will have to say. However, you can do it with a Quicktime mov file, which will be clickable wherever it goes - iTunes, Aggregators, web, email, etc - and there are two ways to do it. By adding 'tracks' to the Quicktime file. You can either add a text track with a hyperlink in Quicktime Pro (cost $30) - in other words, plain text appears in your frame and it's clickable. Kath O Donnell posted a tutorial for this on this group a couple of months ago. http://www.aliak.com/node/2439 Or - the best way IMO - you can it with a 'sprite' track, creating invisible or animated clickable 'sprites' - and this way you can specify parts of the frame which are clickable (or the whole frame), and make them time-specific. So you could make a clickable ident/outro at the end, which you could tack onto the end of any Quicktime movie you make, and which people who download into readers such as iTunes and Fireant can click which will take them to your site. There are no free tools that allow you to do this. Yet. It is one of my dreams to create one for Quicktime and Flash - to stimulate more videos networked from within. But I don't know how and don't have the time to learn. So. These minor hypervideoey things will have to wait until someone much better comes to our aid. You can create sprite tracks in Adobe GoLive, which is part of the expensive CS Suite but is also available from Adobe's website as a 30 day free trial, giving you enough time to create as many linked outros as you want. I learnt how to do it using the tutorial in the Help. There are other programs out there, but all expensive and with limitations. Adobe GoLive trial is the nearest you'll get to a free tool. It's pretty powerful. It's all possible within Quicktime, so you'd think there'd be lots of software that let you do it. But there's not. Personally, I think it's amazingly stupid that iMovie doesn't have it built in. It would be SO EASY for them to do it. But Apple are knowingly underfeaturing their own software. I should put this on the wiki, I guess. Rupert Twittervlogging during Videoblogging Week 2007: http://www.twitter.com/ruperthowe/ http://twittervlog.blogspot.com/ http://feeds.feedburner.com/twittervlog/ On 2 Apr 2007, at 22:31, Nick Schmidt wrote: Does anyone know how to hyperlink within a Video? Meaning: The outro of the video has a URL displayed. If someone clicks on the URL display it directly goes to your website. Does that make sense? If you know how or can directly me to a link where I could learn how to do this, I (and others of this group) would be greatly appreciated. So can you reply with some links where I can find out how to do this? Thanks, Nick Schmidt www.schmult.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
