Ardell DellaLoggia (one of my favorite people) posted this comment on my Friday Classics blog yesterday "All I want for Christmas is...for CJ to give me the "Embedding YouTube into your Active Rain Post"...the "For Dummies" version. "
I know several Active Rain members have already covered this topic, but let me see if I can do some screen shots, and parse it down to "entry level" stuff.
This post will cover working with videos that are already on YouTube. If anyone needs help getting their own personal video uploaded to YouTube, we can tackle that one a little later.
OK. First go to http://www.youtube.com , and in the YouTube search box, type in a performer name, song title, or topic of interest:
Click Search, and YouTube will serve up a listing of all videos tagged with those search terms. Choose one, and click on the video's title:
On the home page for the video you selected, look over in the right column. Notice the "Embed" code? Click right inside that dialogue box and the entire embed text will be selected. Click Edit -> Copy. Now that text is in your "clipboard", and will stay there until you turn your computer off, or overwrite it by copying something else.
You can also paste the code into a text or word processing file for safe keeping. Windows Notepad is handy for that sort of thing.
Now write your blog post in Active Rain, same as you always do. At the end of the blog post, hit Enter a few times to insert some empty space. (It's easier to do it now in the WYSIWYG editor than to add the space later in the HTML view).
In the Visibility section, click the drop down arrow and choose Draft.
Click Post Blog Entry.
As soon as Active Rain processes and redisplays the post, click Edit:
Click on the HTML tab:
Click Edit -> Paste to paste the embed code from Windows clipboard into the blog post. Note I had to manually add some <p></p> tags to create some space.
I also tend to like my videos centered, so I typed in a <div align="center"> tag before the embed code, and and </div> tag at the end of the embed code.
Now click Post Blog Entry again:
Check to be sure everything looks the way you want it, then click Edit again, and change Visibility to Public or Members Only, and click Post Blog Entry one more time.
Hi Cheryl, You are WAY advanced from me, but I'll get there and when I do, I'll be using your tutorials. Thanks.
Dan: This one took a few minutes ..... You do it with a "floatie"...
Place the video embed code at the top of the post. In front of of the embed code insert:
<div style="margin: 10px; float: left;"> at the end of the embed code insert </div>
The whole thing will look like this:
I just learned that here: http://michaelatmo.blogspot.com/2006/05/how-to-embed-you-tube-player-in-your.html
Here's the finished product http://activerain.com/blogsview/320329/Elvis-Presley-You-Ain
cool! thanks so much! now i just need to get a video up on youtube!
cheers,
cindy
http://activerain.com/blogsview/320783/Post-YOUR-Favorite-You
YES!!! Thank You!
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Hi! I saw Ardell's post and did it: her eyou go - thank you so much!
http://activerain.com/blogsview/321142/Moving-Post-Your-Favorite
HI Cheryl, This was tricky for me and you get so happy when you finally do it! I'm going to have to try it again. Thanks for the detailed explanation.
Hi Cheryl - I found the link to this post on Ardell's. Thanks for doing this 'dummies' version. I have twice managed to get a video into a post, but can't remember how I did it after I've done it. Now I can bookmark this post to reference.
Thanks again for sharing!
Ann
Hi Cheryl - Great Dummy version, just what I needed. I have a question. Not knowing the rules for using YouTube content, should the box stating "this is not my content, but I have permission to repost it" be left unchecked as in your post? Thanks
Cheryl,
That is awesome and thanks to you; I have posted my first blog with a video!!! It worked exactly like you said. Thank you again.
Thanks for posting this. I now know how to ad the Youtube videos to my blog.
Sean Allen
Thank you Cheryl for taken the time to show me how to do this. Mike introduced me to you..... and now I have subscribe to your blogs... Thanks a million...
I know you posted this over a year ago, but thanks...I just found it & was EXACTLY what I was looking for!!
You're welcome!
I'm beginning to notice people are searching and finding old posts on a regular basis. That's great!
this is great I will definately add to favorites to reference
Hi Cheryl. I also just found this post and to mimic JOsh in that it was EGG-ZACHARY what I was looking for. BUT, do I also need to do the monthly mixpo to post from youtube directly or just when posting my OWN videos. THanks for your help. Kristin
Fab - I'm trying this out!
Fantastic post and simple eary-to-follow instructions. Now if I can just get easy instructions on getting video from my Flip Video directly to AR, I'll be happy. Thanks for sharing and warm greetings from Paradise.
:) Don't forget to post video or embed code to housereel.com
Sidney
Cheryl, Thank you so much for this post, it was so simple to follow so I could do my first embedded video. Happy New Year!
Yeah Yeah! It worked for me although I couldn't figure out how to make the "centering" code work but that's for another day! Thanks for the super simple instructions!
Thanks Cheryl. This helped me a lot but I had a problem with the <div align="center">. I did what you said and posted but the viewer always went to the left side and the code reverted back to <div>.
Do you know if there are any requirements before you post a youtube video to comply with copyright laws? Thanks.
Hi Cheryl: Just found your post and this was a big help! I couldn't understand why different parts kept getting deleted but after I followed your step-by-step instructions it worked perfectly. Thank you for writing this!
Have a great day,
Anne Rains
Cheryl,
THANK YOU FOR WRITING THIS! Just posted my first youtube on AR thanks to you!
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!!!!!!
I was planning on just making virtual tours, but now I am thinking of monthly market updates and maybe news from Mortgage Brokers and/or Appraisers to help inform people in my market.
Thankx :)
omg, thank you for this
Shane,
You're welcome.
I am a visual person, so this post worked out great for me. Thank You for taking the time to put this together for all the AR members.
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you,
I was trying to figure this out and couldn't get it, then I decided to do a search and you saved the day, thanks!
Cherly thank you so much I have bookmarked this I tried several other a/r bloggers their directions NEVER COULD GET IT than Bam found yours wow you truly made is simple of us THANK YOU
... direct link you might appreciate.
I hope you don't mind I authored a statement about how to's used you as an example:
08/30/2009 Active Rain ~ Helpful hints use special search for members .. HOW TO's ...
Thank you so much for this post.... you explained it very well.
I am really glad so many people have found this post useful!
Yeah!!! It worked (minus the center part which I can live with-that code just isn't "sticking").
Thank you!
Thanks a lot. I embedded my first video about $8000 tax credit.
Yippee! Thanks for the blog post on embedding a video, Cheryl! :)
Leilani
This is the best post I've seen on how to embed video on your blog... Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for the step by step with visuals.
Dear Cheryl,
Thanks for the great post on embeding video on blogs. I used this in the scavenger hunt today!
Betina
http://activerain.com/blogsview/1306285/new-contest-rainy-day-scavenger-hunt-susan-brown-your-texas-connection-keller-williams-realty
oh my gosh, I can finally do it right! thank you!
Barb,
You are welcome.
Thank you so much!!!
I have done this several times and then when I go back to the Wysywig view so I can add more content the darn thing disappears. Any ideas how to keep that from happening.
Tina, I don't think there is a fix for that yet. Once you shift to HTML to add the video, then you need to work in HTML to add anything else.
So either you need to put everything else you want in before you add the video, or just resign yourself to making subsequent edits in HTMl. :-)
Thank you for the post. Just started learning about the process of embedding. Wish me luck!!
Thank you! I saw the embed button on youtube,and used a link that I could insert into the Word version. With html I can have the whole video frame show up - Yay!
YAY Anna!!