How+to+embed+Animoto+videos+in+a+blog+post

Here is a sample of how your Animoto video might look when it is embedded in one of your blog posts. http://youthvoices.net/elgg/susane/weblog/5203.html

The following instructions should be helpful. You can do the same with your video. This will make it easy for us to share and respond to the videos.
 * 1) go to the Animoto site
 * 2) click play to open your video
 * 3) from the menu, choose the thumbtack, that is "post online"
 * 4) click the Embed code option
 * 5) leave the two boxes unchecked (autostart and loop)
 * 6) click next
 * 7) enter your email
 * 8) copy the code and use it as follows:

Animoto is programmed to give you the object code. In order to embed this in the Youth Voices (elgg) blog post, you need to include an embed tag.

You simply need to copy the code below and change the object code to whatever was given to you for your personal video (what you copied above).

Then in your blog post over at Youth Voices, either create a new post or click edit the post that you've already made.

Click the Add External Video button and paste in your code. Now complete your blog post with all of the usual feeds, make sure to make it public, Save and you should see your video!

It seems that there might be an automatic change that is forced by the software so after you save your blog post, go back and edit it and simply change the size from 240 to 432 and the 200 to 250. This will make the video look better because it will no longer be "compressing on the fly."

The two chunks of code below are what you need to complete this process. It actually works well! Just take your time and replace carefully. Remember, if you just copy and paste this code, you will be embedding my video, not your video!

      

  