Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen | solitude.dk

You've seen how cool contexual links in Quicktime are, but you can't figure out how to add these easily. The help is here: Quicktime Thingie! This tool will help you create these links easily, just follow these short instructions.

1. Point your browser to Quicktime Thingie.
2. Fill out the movie information and the text information.
3. Add links by clicking the (edit) text beside each link entry. A box should pop up where you can enter the start time, end time, link text and link address. Saving links do not currently work in Internet Explorer 5.5 (possibly also 6.0). I don't know why not, and I'd love to hear from you if you know why.
4. When you are done adding links click the Create Text Track Button. A download dialogue should appear. Save the file as a text file on your computer.
5. Open a new window in Quicktime Pro.
6. Choose Import and import the file you just saved.
7. Quicktime will ask you to save it as a movie. Do that.
8. Copy the contents of the timeline to the clipboard.
9. Add them to your movie by choosing Add from the Edit menu.
10. Save your movie and you're done. Remember to save as a complete movie!

Extra credit

By default the text track will appear at the top of your movie. You might want to change this. After adding the text track to your movie go through these steps:

1. Choose Show Movie Characteristics or something to that effect from the Edit menu. My version of Quicktime has Danish menus so it's unknown to me what the exact wording is. The keyboard shortbut is Ctrl+J on Windows.
2. Choose to only view text tracks from the top left dropdown.
3. Click the Adjust button. You can now move the text track around with your mouse.
4. Click Ok and you're done.