Like many of you, I've been blogging a long time. Occasionally, I'll run across a post where someone is having a difficulty, and I think that perhaps explaining a fix would make for a good blog post. Or, Blogger changes something, and it takes a while for us all to catch on and catch up. So, I decided to make space on my blog for those kinds of posts.
I'm definitely not an expert, just a blogger who kind of knows her way around. Feel free to correct me in the comments if I missed a better way to do any of this.
When I mentioned my plan to write these kinds of posts, I got a request to do a post on how to post a video to Blogger. There are probably a couple ways to do this, but the easiest way (currently) is to use the "Insert Video" icon.
Step 1: Click "New Post" or open the post where you want to embed the video.
Step 2: Get to the point in the post where you wish to embed the video.
Step 3: In the bar under the title with all the icons, click on the "Insert Video" icon.
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| It looks like one of those clapboards from old time movie making. |
Step 3 continued: When you click the icon, it gives you two choices: "Upload from computer" or "Youtube".
"Upload from computer" is for any video that you have on your own computer. The problem most people encounter is there is a limit to how big that file can be. (I can't find a definite answer, but some say it's 10 MB.) Plus, it takes a while to upload, and sometimes that upload fails, so you have to go back and redo.
It's way easier to choose "Youtube". If you have a video you want to share that's yours, I would highly recommend uploading it to YouTube first. You can always make it so that it's not searchable there.
Most of the time, we're sharing videos we found on YouTube. So...
Step 4: From "Youtube", copy/paste the video's URL or search for a video in the spyglass bar. Once you've found the video you want, click on it, and then click on "Insert".
And the video will appear on your blog. It'll look different on your edit screen than it will on the published post, so as long as you selected the right video, it should be just fine.
But what if the video you want to embed isn't on YouTube?
Unfortunately, there's not an easy way to do that. I imagine there's a way using HTML, but it's not something I'm going to figure out for this blog post. The best thing to do then would be to create a link to the video. It's not as neat, but it'll get the job done.
Did I miss anything? Is there an easier way to do this? If you have anything to add, please feel free to add it to the comments.
Also, is there a question you have about Blogger? Something you don't know how to do? Let me know and I may use that for a future blog post.
I've never had problems with adding videos, but mine are always short so just upload from my computer. Blogger does have it's little idiosyncrasies though! I just have to remember to "preview" all the post before posting them, as Blogger likes to change some of the font size if I edit anything. Or, if it decides to undo the centering it often enlarges it when I change it back. An easy fix, but irritating. I learned that I can't add a Mr. Linky on compose view, just HTML. There is no doubt a logical reason for that one. Work arounds, I get good at those!
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ReplyDeleteYears ago, I used to upload my videos to You Tube and from there, my blog. Now I can't seem to put anything on You Tube. But, I don't really do much in the way of videos anymore, anyway. I don't know much about HTML and so that wouldn't help me.
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