Operation Manual

48 Working with Graphics, Animation, and Multimedia
Adding sound and video
WebPlus lets you augment your Web pages with sound and video files
in a variety of standard formats, including both non-streaming and
streaming media. You can include linked sound or video, triggered by
a mouse click (for example on an icon or hyperlinked object. In
addition, you can define background sounds where a sound loads and
plays automatically when a specific page is first displayed in the
visitor’s Web browser.
One way of including multimedia is to add a hyperlink or hotspot (see
the next chapter) that opens a specific media file. With this option, the
media file remains separate from the publication. WebPlus also
provides several ways of embedding the source file.
Clicking the
Insert Sound Clip or Insert Video Clip button
on the left toolbar lets you choose whether to link the clip from a
standard icon (supplied by WebPlus), from an external picture file of
your choice, or via an inline media “player” (again supplied by
WebPlus). With the third option, a marker appears on your page where
the player will be shown after the page is published. Using any of these
approaches, you can select or deselect the Embed option.
When you publish your site, WebPlus takes care of exporting and
copying both embedded and non-embedded files. Note that you won’t
be able to play back or edit sound or video files in WebPlus; you’ll
need to use an external media editor.