Quicktime movies slow to upload

Zeb are you using a .mac server?

Although you are referring to "upload", I take it that you are concerned about the time it takes for the movie to download from the server to your browser.
The real issue here seems to be the speed of your internet connection.
I just ran a speed test on mine and it claims that I can download 1Mb in 2 seconds. So one of your movies would only take 8 seconds to download.
To run a test go to...
http://internetfrog.com/mypc/speedtest/
I then went to one of my web pages that has a 42.3Mb movie. By the time I had scrolled down to the control bar and started it, enough of it was loaded so that I could play it without interruption.
What you can do is put some text above the movie on the web page so that viewers have to read it and then scroll down to start the movie. This gives it a few seconds of a head start.
On one page where I had a particularly large file I put a comic strip made with stills from the movie to grab the viewer's attention while the movie downloaded.

Sometimes depends on how you encoded it to begin with...

For example:


Starts right away (that's a tag in iWeb to auto play)--
http://web.mac.com/captmench/Site/ZacharyFilms/Entries/2007/9/1_ElmoShirt.html


Loads right away but must click play --
http://web.mac.com/captmench/Site/ThreeBoysMovies/Entries/2007/6/11_Entry1.html

and

Won't register until almost fully loaded
http://web.mac.com/captmench/Site/ZacharyFilms/Entries/2007/8/25_Portion_ofThyself.html

Not sure why the last one is like that other than in previous versions of QT not associated with iWeb08 (that seems to have fixed this)... I had to encode these movies with fast internet play. But then, if I changed the posterframe it would loose that tag and I'd be left with a slow internet play.

How did you encode and is what's happening to you the THIRD option here?

CaptM

Anytime you edit a QuickTime file (adding annotations or setting a poster frame) and then do a regular Save you remove the fast start properties of the file. They get placed at the end of the file so the entire file must download before playback can begin.
Easy fix:
Open the file using QuickTime Pro and Save As. Name identical to the original and "replace" the older version found on your server with it.

Ah... great. Thanks.

Cool thing about iWeb08 is the on-the-fly poster frame setting has nothing to do with the auto play of the clip!!!

Fantastic 'hidden' feature.

CaptM