How to embed a video in an entry.....
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vintageadsSeveral members have expressed having a problem knowing how to embed a video in an entry (please note that embedding videos in comments doesn't often work, this is just for embedding a video in an entry), so I thought I'd make a screen capped walk thru to hopefully help people.
Find whatever vintage ad you want on youtube, then hit the 'share' button (highlighted in screen cap).
Tap it and the first option you see is just the url, but you see 'embed' (highlighted in screen cap).
When you tap embed this is what shows and it already will be ready for you to just either cut or copy the embed code. I obviously highlighted it here. [Please denote SOME videos are not embeddable, it will say so on the video when you hit embed. I have no idea how/why some uploaders do that, it's annoying, just find the video from another poster who allows it to be embedded if you encounter that.]
Now go to livejournal to post. I always use HTML posting (I have a feeling perhaps sometimes errors happen via the visual editor), just paste the code in your entry and obviously write whatever you want, put a subject, tag (if you wish), etc. Then hit post.
Embedded video! :)
Find whatever vintage ad you want on youtube, then hit the 'share' button (highlighted in screen cap).
Tap it and the first option you see is just the url, but you see 'embed' (highlighted in screen cap).
When you tap embed this is what shows and it already will be ready for you to just either cut or copy the embed code. I obviously highlighted it here. [Please denote SOME videos are not embeddable, it will say so on the video when you hit embed. I have no idea how/why some uploaders do that, it's annoying, just find the video from another poster who allows it to be embedded if you encounter that.]
Now go to livejournal to post. I always use HTML posting (I have a feeling perhaps sometimes errors happen via the visual editor), just paste the code in your entry and obviously write whatever you want, put a subject, tag (if you wish), etc. Then hit post.
Embedded video! :)
