Help on saving the clip
Once you have marked a clip in a file you need to store (a reference to) the fragment you selected, so that you or others can play it. You can store the fragment by adding it to a web page, a Word document or a PowerPoint document, or another file that can contain HTML code or hyperlinks. You can also save the reference to the clip in a separate file. Do so only if you have good reason. The procedure described below covers most requirements.
The Virtual Cutter offers various possibilities for including the clip in a document.
A clip is nothing more than a reference to an audiovisual file on the Internet,
a start marker and an end marker. The Virtual Cutter does not make a copy of a
part of that audiovisual file. All you need to replay a selected clip is one of
the snippets of code that the Cutter generates for you.
Procedure:
- Mark a selection from the file using the selection screen.
- Click the
button.
The Virtual Cutter opens a window with the HTML codes that you need to play the selected clip again.
- Select the snippet of HTML code you need to play the selection. Use the guidelines below. Copy the selected snippet to the clipboard (for instance by pressing the Ctrl and C keys simultaneously). Then paste it into the document from which you wish to play the selection.
hyperlink
The text in this field is an operational hyperlink. Click the link to check the clip.
Select the link and paste it into a Word or PowerPoint document. The
hyperlink has a default label, 'Play clip', but if you have specified
a different title in the selection screen, this title becomes the hyperlink's label.
URL
This contains the full URL that is generated to play the clip. Use the URL to create a hyperlink yourself, for example for a hyperlink based on an image.
HTML - external player
This contains the HTML code to create a hyperlink to play the selected clip in a stand-alone player. If you cannot copy the full hyperlink then paste this code into an HTML document in order to create a hyperlink.
HTML - embedded player
Here you will find the HTML code to play the selected clip in a player that is embedded in a webpage. Copy and paste this code into an HTML document. You can change the player's properties by setting other options.
To give you an idea of how this will look, the player has been included underneath the HTML code.
Please note: copy only the HTML code, not the player!
There is a possibility that the HTML code is 'interpreted' by the HTML editor during copying (to FrontPage, for example). In such cases the code may not be processed correctly, for instance because the characters < and > have been replaced by < and >. If this happens, follows these steps:
- Copy the HTML code from the results page
- Open Notepad and paste the code into the Notepad document
- Copy the text from Notepad and paste it into the HTML editor