Archive for October, 2005

Add Flash detection to all your video posts

October 31, 2005 at 8:25 pm · Filed under Flash, Tutorial

I will try and make this as easily as possible to add Flash detection code to all of your posts in your blog.

  • Step 1: Navigate to your template for your blog. See here for information on blooger.com templates.
  • Step 2: Scroll down to the bottom of my blog and click on the text in the “Flash Detection 8 Detection code”. This will select all of the code. Then right click and selct “Copy” to copy the selected text to your clipboard.
  • Step 3: In your template code we want to put the copied code somewhere in-between the html head tags. I put this directly after entry in my template code. Once you have found where you want to put the copied code, left click to place the cursor. Then right click and select “Paste” to copy the code form your clipboard to your template code.
  • Step 4: Scroll down to the bottom of my blog and click on the text in the ” replace code”. This will select all of the code. Then right click and selct “Copy” to copy the selected text to your clipboard.
  • Step 5: Find the tag in your template code. Select text and then right click and select “Paste”.
  • Step 6: Publish your template.

    Now users to your site should see the video or be prompted to update their Flash plug-in.

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    my first video

    October 25, 2005 at 9:51 pm · Filed under Video

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    How to Create your own Video Blog tutorial

    October 13, 2005 at 10:49 pm · Filed under Flash, Tutorial, Video

    What better why to kick off my video blog or vlog….

    Then with a video tutorial on how I created my video blog. I use Flash, which is a great platform to deliver your video posts, especially since they added vp6 video to Flash 8. More and more people are switching to flash to deliver video, just ask Google Video.

    I broke the tutorial into 5 steps:
    1. Create a blog account on www.blogger.com.
    2. Create an account on blip.tv. This is where your videos will be hosted for free.
    3. Create your video post using Flix Pro.
    4. Upload your video to blip.tv.
    5. Publish a video post on your blog.

    You will also want to add code to check that people viewing your blog has the correct flash version. I added the code to check and update users at the bottom of my blog. You will have to copy and paste all of the text into in your blogger.com template. See here for information on blooger.com templates.

    The only tool I use to create straight video posts is Flix Pro. I am also one of the programmers who work on Flix Pro, so if anyone has any feature requests send them to me at vanderhugeblog ( at ) gmail ( dot ) com.

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