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Posting You-Tube videos with your poetry is easy. Just open this post in a new browser window and refer to it as you work on your own post.

Once you create your video and place it on You-Tube, you can then visit the forum and use the "Flash" button with the You-Tube Link to post your video with a little bit of cleverness.

First, you'll copy and paste the "Embed" code that You-Tube provides on the right side of the You-Tube window into your post like this:



From all of that code, you need only locate the URL that in listed as the value of the param tag, and remove everything else. In this case, it's this:

http://www.youtube.com/v/BPBQ3IBtGQ4&hl=en&fs=1&

Good! Now the URL has to be changed to work properly when called remotely. The change involves only adding "-nocookie" to the youtube domain. So after this treatment it looks like this:

http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/BPBQ3IBtGQ4&hl=en&fs=1&

Once that is altered, you can then select the whole link, and click the button entitled "Flash" in the formatting bar for your post. It will look like this:

[flash=]http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/BPBQ3IBtGQ4&hl=en&fs=1&[/flash]

The final step is to tell the flash tag what dimensions you want to use. For most You-Tube videos, that will be 480,295. So once you enter that after the = sign in flash= you will have your video ready to display in the page:

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Matthew Steven
Iowalit Web Developer
http://matts.org/

If you need help getting your video from the camera to YouTube, here is a little help:

http://www.youtube.com/t/howto_makevideo

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Matthew Steven
Iowalit Web Developer
http://matts.org/