2009-04-05

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Customizing videos in Blogger Tutorial 3


In tutorial How to add a video in Blogger we've talked about the options of placing a video in our Blog...Them in Part 1 and Part 2, we've learned something about video customization, slideshows...
This time, I'll show you how to make a Video Gallery and set the video to Autoplay.

MAKING A VIDEO GALLERY
Video Gallery or Video Wall is a group of your favorite videos (personal or public ones) displayed in a gallery box with video thumbnails.

DailyMotion Video Wall
Dailymotion is a video hosting service website with great interface and features. You can share videos, create your channels...
Here's the example of the video wall created in Dailymotion:

...stylish. Anyway, the steps are:
► create an account with Dailymotion.com
► go to My Channel
► under Video Tools (left menu), select Create a Videowall

Options:
► choose a channel you'd like to display (public, or your personal..)
► you can adjust the size (rows, columns)
► autoplay. zooming, video titles, spacing...

Copy the provided code, and paste it into your Blog Post, or Sidebar/Footer using a HTML/JavaScript gadget from Add a Gadget (LAYOUT ► PAGE ELEMENTS)

....as simple as it gets...

BLINKX Video wall
Blinx is the world’s largest and most advanced video search engine. It's very intuitive. You'll figure it out in a second...Here's the example of the Video wall created in Blinkx:



..Steps:

► go to blinkx.com
► search for the videos of your interest
drag the videos into your playlist box (bottom left)
► when you're done (you can place 1 or 101 video - it doesn't matter), click on Wall it on the bottom of the box..
► copy the provided code, and paste it into your Blog Post (rather in HTML MODE, than COMPOSE)

Video wall will have a certain width and height....Just change it to fit your Blog post (refer to resizing videos in Part 1)

That's it...

Videos in HTML tables
Here is another way of organizing videos in your Blog. It's quite old fashioned, but still works. In this example, I've made a video gallery from Youtube videos (you can use videos from anywhere, of course):





































Video 1Video 2Video 3Video 4
Video 5Video 6Video 7Video 8
Video 9Video 10Video 11Video 12
...3 rows with 4 columns, and a caption for each video...You can modify the videos size, add some borders, background color...
..if you like it,
 

Video 1 Video 2 Video 3 Video 4
Video code goes here... Video code goes here... Video code goes here... Video code goes here...
Video 5 Video 6 Video 7 Video 8
Video code goes here... Video code goes here... Video code goes here... Video code goes here...
Video 9 Video 10 Video 11 Video 12
Video code goes here... Video code goes here... Video code goes here... Video code goes here...
...replace the lines in green with your own titles, and lines in orange with the video code provided from a site (Youtube, Metacafe....)


SET A VIDEO TO AUTOPLAY IN BLOGGER
Here's the example how to set a Youtube videos to autoplay when your Blog post is opened:
The original video code:
And after tweaking:
&autoplay=1">&autoplay=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344">
..you have to add &autoplay=1 (in orange) just like in the code above...in both places.

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