Adding a video to your blog posting

You can include a video in a blog posting to make it available to readers.

1. Create a blog entry.
2. To insert a Flash video, do the following:
   1. Click the Insert Flash Movie icon on the toolbar of the rich text editor.
   2. Enter the URL for the Flash demo.
   3. Optional: (Optional) Override the default display settings by entering values in pixels for the width and height, as well as how much vertical space to display above and below the video.
   4. Optional: (Optional) Use the Preview area to see how the video will appear in the blog entry.
3. To embed a video, such as video from a YouTube page, do the following:
   1. Copy the <embed> object information for the video you want to use and paste it into the editor.
      Note: Many video sharing websites now provide iframe code for videos by default. It is usually still possible to get the old embed code although, for example on YouTube, you can do this by checking the Use old embed code option. Both iframes and old embed code can be pasted directly into the rich text editor.
      To embed a video from YouTube, click Share > Embed Copy the contents of the textfield and paste it directly into the editor without switching to source view. The rich text editor automatically detects that this is an iframe and will insert an iframe object in the editor. If the old embed code is used instead, the editor will automatically detect that this is a flash video and a flash object will be inserted in the editor. Once the page is saved, the video contents can be viewed within the page.
      Note: If you are inserting an example of the video markup, it is important that you paste it directly as it appears in the video sharing website. Do not add any newlines, spacing, and so on; otherwise the automatic detection feature in the editor might not get triggered. Examples of video markup that will be automatically detected are:

      <iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/-mcbsrAXlAg" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

      Or:

      <object width="420" height="315"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/-mcbsrAXlAg?version=3&amp;hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/-mcbsrAXlAg?version=3&amp;hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="420" height="315" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object>

      If you try to paste video content into the rich text editor and it is not automatically converted into a flash video or iframe, try pasting the video sample into Notepad or some other plain text editor, and then copy it from there into the rich text editor. All samples pasted directly from the Share feature in YouTube, Vimeo, and such will work as is.
   2. Optional: Add any other text you want to display in the entry.
4. Save the entry.