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You have no doubt seen plenty of blogs with posts containing embedded YouTube videos. They are so easy to add. All you have to do is copy the embed code and paste it into the “Code” tab (not the “Visual” tab) of the Post field in WordPress.

If you produce videos, you can upload them to YouTube and then embed them into your blog. Even if you don’t embed them into your blog, YouTube is an excellent way to gain exposure for your blog.

However, sometimes when you upload and embed YouTube videos, the YouTube version may not be of the quality you desire. If you are able to produce your video in QuickTime, you can embed them in your posts with the QuickTime Embed plugin by Yaosan Yeo.

To use the plugin, first upload it and activate it in WordPress (more on how to do this in a future post).

Next, upload your QuickTime video to your server. You’ll have to do this via FTP (File Transfer Protocol).

Make note of the name of the file, the path you placed the file in, and the dimensions of the video.

Next, within the Code tab of the Post editor, enter in the following piece of code:

[qt:/wp-content/themes/Forte/images/demo.mov 480 256]

The above example shows the relative path of where the movie demo.mov is located. You could type in the complete address as in:

[qt:/http://yoursite.com/wp-content/themes/Forte/images/demo.mov 480 256]

The “/wp-content/themes/Forte/images/” is just an example of the path in which the file is located. Of course, yours will be different.
Okay, next note the numbers 480 256. Those numbers are variable as well. The 480 is the width of the video. 256 is the height + 16. That is, the actual height of the video is 240 pixels. You add the 16 to accommodate for the height of the QuickTime controller.

So it’s that easy. To see an example of how I did it to embed a QuickTime video found on another site, please see my post in Instantly Iconic.

One side note. Viewing the QuickTime video may be dependent upon your visitor having QuickTime installed and may take time for the video to “transfer” to the post. So use your judgment on whether you wish to use this method.

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