Putting video on a website

[Jen5678]

I'm not sure if I am in the right forum to ask this, but does anyone know how I could put video onto a site. Like I know how to do it so it will come up in a different window, but I would like to get it like this homepage.........

www.tnt.tv (they are showing trailers for upcoming tv episodes)

Does anyone know how to go about doing this?

Thank You....

 

[dejo]

I'm not sure if I am in the right forum to ask this, but does anyone know how I could put video onto a site. Like I know how to do it so it will come up in a different window, but I would like to get it like this homepage.........

www.tnt.tv (they are showing trailers for upcoming tv episodes)

Does anyone know how to go about doing this?

Thank You....

What format is your video in? I know Apple uses the <EMBED> tag on their Quicktime Movie Trailers pages. Maybe look into how to use those.

 

[Jen5678]

I don't have any videos that I am going to put on now, but I know I will in the future. And I just got my mac so I am still doing the site on my PC cause thats what the program is compatable with.

 

[stoid]

That's all Flash based. For that you'll need Macromedia's Flash development software.

 

[Jen5678]

I have Macromedia, I just don't know how to use it lol......

I just started this website stuff.

 

[HeWhoSpitsFire]

You need a video app, like imovie at least, as well as the current flash mx 2004 pro.

Those are made with the flash video exporter that comes with pro. Just save the movie as an .flv (flash video) when exporting.

Then in Dreamweaver you use the embed plugin function. Or write it if you know the code. The tag is <embed> but there are to many parameters to list. It all depends on the type of media, in this case flash video.

TNT's site uses a flash movie that calls different flash video. The <object> code they use is:

<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,0,0" width="770" height="326" id="PromoDisplay" align="middle">
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
<param name="movie" value="/flash/HPDisplay.swf" />
<param name="FlashVars" value="dataFile=%2Fflash%2Fpromolist%2F">

<param name="quality" value="high" />
<param name="bgcolor" value="#000000" />
<embed src="/flash/HPDisplay.swf" FlashVars="dataFile=%2Fflash%2Fpromolist%2F" quality="high" bgcolor="#000000" width="770" height="326" name="PromoDisplay" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer/" />
</object>​

It takes a bit of experience to get that type finished product. But with a good deal of time learning, anything is possible. I would recommend a quick start guide as well as the printed materials that came with your Macromedia product(s).

 

[Jen5678]

Thanks

I'm gonna start reading up on it.