The final step is to save this movie once more as a stand-alone movie (final.mov for example). The movie can then be linked on a website, with the following embed tag which will display a poster frame, and as soon as the viewer clicks on the image it will launch the QuickTime movie as self-contained.

<EMBED SRC="poster.mov" TYPE="image/x-quicktime" HEIGHT=120 WIDTH=160 HREF="final.mov" TARGET="quicktimeplayer">

The only drawback to this entire process is the end viewer needs to have QuickTime 5 installed on their system. If they do not the movie will open inside the standard QuickTime window.

Whew!
Because I used three different movie files for this tutorial, it made this exercise a bit longer than normal. If you are using a single movie track, creating a regular QuickTime movie in it's own skin on a regular basis could become second nature.

Click on the image to view Media Skin. Press Command or Control W to close.

Hopefully this exercise not only showed you how to brand your media, but also gave you some ideas on how you can add more interactivity to your QuickTime movies. Think how easy it would be to add a director's commentary track or other audio or video track to your future streaming masterpieces.

If you are still confused about how all of this goes together, there is another cool item I discovered. If you find a great example of a QuickTime media skin, and you can save it to your hard drive, you can open that QuickTime movie in GoLive and it preserves all of the formatting. It is then a simple matter of viewing the timeline and seeing how they did it.