How do I embed YouTube movie?

[cebritt]

How do I embed a YouTube movie using Contribute 3? YouTube generates the code but I haven't been able to figure out how to embed it using C3.

[HangD]

To embed the YouTube code snippet, go to the YouTube and to your right of the
player is the URL location and an embed location. Copy the embed string -
below is a sample. Now locate the Contribute 3 site which you are trying to
insert the video into.

For Contribute 3, your location path to your sites folder is similar to this
C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Application
Data\Macromedia\Contribute 3\Sites. For Contribute 4, use C:\Documents and
Settings\username\Local Settings\Application Data\Adobe\Contribute 4\Sites

If you have already made modifications to your site, with Contribute, the site
should be at the top, when you do a sort by modify date. (Contribute assigns
the site number by when you first created the site). Choose the correct site,
and then locate the html file you need to edit - and use your notepad program
to insert the code snippet:

<object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie"
value="http://www.youtube.com/v/cLAljaPwfYo"></param><param name="wmode"
value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/cLAljaPwfYo"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425"
height="350"></embed></object>

[cebritt]

Thanks but what you're saying is that it CAN'T be done using Contribute. I need
to have our users embed the movies and forcing them to use an external
application defeats the whole purpose of Contribute.

Since Contribute allows you to insert a movie, it's seems like it would be
very easy for them to add the ability to insert a YouTube movie.

[Arun Kumar M]

cebritt wrote:

> Thanks but what you're saying is that it CAN'T be done using Contribute. I need
> to have our users embed the movies and forcing them to use an external
> application defeats the whole purpose of Contribute.
>
> Since Contribute allows you to insert a movie, it's seems like it would be
> very easy for them to add the ability to insert a YouTube movie.
>

We understand your paint point and we are coming up with a new feature
in our coming release to have Insert HTML Snippet at your cursor
location in edit mode...

[cebritt]

[q]
We understand your paint point and we are coming up with a new feature
in our coming release to have Insert HTML Snippet at your cursor
location in edit mode...
[/q]

When might this new release be available?

Thanks, Carleton
Austin, TX

[Ron Roszkiewicz]

Is the HTML code method above (which I assume is a Dreamweaver method) still THE way to do it or is the snippet method mentioned as coming in a Contribute update now available?

[stockholmsyndrome]

Contribute CS3 has the insert HTML code snippet feature, the previous versions
do not. The workaround is to actually edit the source code using an external
editor, and inserting the object or link to the movie.

[Ron Roszkiewicz]

Okay. I found it in Contribute 4.x. The default is for Enable Inserting
Snippets to be turned off in Preferences even with Adminstrative Privileges
turned on. Once turned on and inserted it worked fine. Thanks