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Organizing Streaming Alternates in Subfolders

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120 Chapter 7: Formats Organizing Streaming Alternates in Subfolders If you are managing a site with many movies, you may want to keep the various alternate groups organized within subfolders instead of keeping all the alternates of the different movies within one folder. This is easy with progressive-streaming alternates because the paths specified in the master movie are relative - as long as the master movie and its alternates are in the same folder, everything works fine. However, when creating realtime-streaming alternates, you must specify the absolute path to each streaming alternate location when creating them. Because this absolute path is built into the master movie, you cannot move them to a different subfolder - they must be in the exact location specified in the Streaming Server Path section of the Preferences dialog or they will not work. To make subfolder organization easier to implement, you can create subfolders for the streaming alternates and automatically include their unique subfolder names in the absolute paths to the alternates. Because the subfolder name is derived from the project file name, you can use the same setting with different projects, and Cleaner properly creates paths to the correct subfolders. To organize the streaming alternates in subfolders: Check the Add Alternate folder name to Custom Path option in the Preferences dialog. This will put the streaming alternates in their own subfolder within the Upload to Streaming Server folder it creates when making streaming alternates. This subfolder is titled with the name of the source movie minus any nonstandard characters, and the name of this subfolder is added to the absolute path you specify in the Streaming Server Settings in the Preferences dialog. It is important that you do not rename this folder or the streaming alternates within it. You must upload this folder with all its streaming alternates to the correct location on the QuickTime Streaming Server - you can refer to the alternate Readme file to see where to place this folder on your Streaming Server.

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Chapter 7: Formats
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Organizing Streaming Alternates in Subfolders
If you are managing a site with many movies, you may want to keep the various alternate
groups organized within subfolders instead of keeping all the alternates of the different movies
within one folder. This is easy with progressive-streaming alternates because the paths
specified in the master movie are relative — as long as the master movie and its alternates are
in the same folder, everything works fine.
However, when creating realtime-streaming alternates, you must specify the absolute path to
each streaming alternate location when creating them. Because this absolute path is built into
the master movie, you cannot move them to a different subfolder — they must be in the exact
location specified in the Streaming Server Path section of the Preferences dialog or they will not
work.
To make subfolder organization easier to implement, you can create subfolders for the
streaming alternates and automatically include their unique subfolder names in the absolute
paths to the alternates. Because the subfolder name is derived from the project file name, you
can use the same setting with different projects, and Cleaner properly creates paths to the
correct subfolders.
To organize the streaming alternates in subfolders:
Check the Add Alternate folder name to Custom Path option in the Preferences dialog.
This will put the streaming alternates in their own subfolder within the Upload to Streaming
Server folder it creates when making streaming alternates. This subfolder is titled with the
name of the source movie minus any nonstandard characters, and the name of this subfolder is
added to the absolute path you specify in the Streaming Server Settings in the Preferences
dialog.
It is important that you do not rename this folder or the streaming alternates within it. You
must upload this folder with all its streaming alternates to the correct location on the
QuickTime Streaming Server — you can refer to the alternate Readme file to see where to place
this folder on your Streaming Server.