AArrrggghhhhh Embedding Video Code

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This should be simple and easy, but so far it isn't working.

I bought Camtasia 6, works just fine.

I set up an account at screencase dot com and uploaded a video. So far so good.

Screencast gives me the code to embed (just like embedding a Youtube video). I drop the code into the middle of a table in Dreamweaver - in split view - save the page, and instead of a nice video in the table I see all the embedded code!

Maybe the problem is screencast, so I grab some Youtube embedding code from one of my Youtube videos, drop it into the site I am desiging, and guess what? I see the code again instead of a video.

So what am I missing besides a brain? Where/how do I stick that code into the site?

It is to be the typical video on left, Aweber form on the right - squeeze page.

Thanks

:-Don
#website design #aarrrggghhhhh #code #embedding #video
  • Hi Don,

    You have to make sure you've got the code that starts with
    <object>. ie.

    <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ora35AzLxt0&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ora35AzLxt0&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>

    You may have something in the head section of your page that
    is preventing the HTML given here to function right. You might
    try adding a <html> tag right before the video in the cell and
    closing with </html>

    You may also want to try uploading the page to a server and
    see if it's not some display glitch with your HTML editor.

    Try working with a oversized cell too, making sure there is plenty
    of room in it for the video.
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  • You also need to remember to drop HTML code into the
    HTML code view, not the tabular view of a WYSIWYG
    editor.

    When working with such editors, I put a placeholder
    text like "VIDEO HERE", then go into HTML mode
    and replace the placeholder text with the <object>
    code.
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    • (Edit) Hey everybody, I spoke too soon. After reading this post, look at my next one.

      Thank you Loren,

      I have been working in the HTML editor in a split view in Dreamweaver.

      I think I am getting closer. The space in the cell is 480 pixels wide. The Youtube video is 425 pixels wide.

      When I added the <html> </html> tags to the Youtube embed code it worked! Whooooo Hoooo.

      The other video (Camtasia) I want to use is 640 pixels wide. Putting it into a 480 pixel table is like trying to fit a 400 pound man into a size 28 blue jeans.

      Now I need to go back to Camtasia, resize the video I want to use instead of the YouTube video, and try that with html tags.

      Thank you again. I think this has it solved. I'll know after resizing.
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  • I think you table code is unclean. You have 2 tables
    within the big table, at least.

    I would make it something like this page I made
    for you real quick:
    midgets

    I don't have any tables nested within tables as
    in your HTML. I just wanted to show you a simple
    way to get your video on the left and your other
    stuff on the right so you've got a video and text
    in one column and your opt-in or whatever in
    the other.

    I've never used or seen a th=scope tag so I don't
    know what that's about. What I do know is
    it seems like a complicated table layout you
    probably blundered into making without realizing
    it. When the tables are nested like that it's
    hard to grab them and pull them around by
    the edges. I usually make a table with columns
    in the form of cells, avoiding the nested table
    techniques because it can be hard to make
    such things do what you want, in my experience.

    I'll use empty <p> tags to make white space
    and so forth... kind of quick and dirty but
    at least the code is comprehensible.
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    • Are you looking to do something like this......... Customized Video Squeeze Page

      If you would like you can look at the source code..........the video area is commented on.........
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  • Thank you. I have it working now, and I sent you a PM.

    I got rid of the nested tables and switched to using ApDiv's.

    :-Don
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