I'm totally familiar in making static and dynamic websites. However, I have never dealt with multimedia in a website. I want to build a static website that has movies placed on various pages. The movies will be supplied to me (I will not be making them), I only need to place them on pages.
My questions are...What format (file type) should the movie be in (I am not familiar with Flash, is that a movie type file?, are there others?)
I have the option to tell the people making the movies what type to make. What should I say, and should I include a size range (I'm assuming its sort of like an image file?)
Once I have the above things worked out, I'm assuming I'll have some movie files. Is placing them on a page just like placing image files?
Any help in getting me going is greatly appreciated. Thanks
Upload them to http://www.blip.tv, and they will give you HTML embeddable code for your site. You can upload mov, wmv, etc, all to Blip. They will convert it for you and handle the dirty-work. All you'll have to do is copy/paste the HTML code they provide.