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====== How to post a movie ====== ===== The easy part ===== 1. Create the movie somehow. You'll need to create a flash video file (.flv) and a .png or .jpg image of the same size (e.g. 400 x 300 pixels). 2. Open up your blog in a browser. For me that is http://www.channelflow.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/gtspring2009:gibson:blog. 3. Click an "edit" button. ===== Upload the movie files ===== 4a. Click the "add images" button, just above the edit window, and just left of the :-) button. 4b. An upload dialog box will open, looking something like this: {{gtspring2009:howto:uploadbox.png}} 4c. Now this is really important: In the **Media Files** portion of the upload box, select **movies** and then under that **yourname**. On the right-hand side of the box **movies:yourname** will appear. //You **have** to upload to this location or **you will not be able to view the movies**.// 4d. Select the movie files to upload and upload them. ===== Put the movie in the blog ===== 5. Now add a line like the following to your blog, with appropriate substitutions. <flashplayer width="400" height="320">file=/movies/gibson/p76p82.flv&image=/movies/gibson/p76p82.png&repeat=none</flashplayer> The %%<flashplayer ...%% tag should be flush with the left margin --no spaces before it. Note that the size is specified as 400 x 320 pixels, 20 pixels more in height than the 400 x 300 images size shown in the above dialog box. The 20 extra pixels are for the flashplayer controls. 6. Click on ''Preview'' or ''Save'' and voilá! There is a flash video embedded in your blog! <flashplayer width="400" height="320">file=/movies/gibson/p76p82.flv&image=/movies/gibson/p76p82.png&repeat=none</flashplayer> 7. Peace and happiness reign throughout the study group as we gaze inquisitively at each other's animations.
