Resizing multimedia for your application

Have you ever found a video that you want to add to a written post? You start your article, add the video in a space in the middle then pick up writing again on the line after the article. It does the trick but it just doesn’t have that polished look. Well never fear I have come with the answer for you.

First of all in order to use a YouTube video on your post your must be in code mode when you use the embedded object code from YouTube. Next copy you code into the post. Take a look at the code. There are 2 places that have the height and width of the video. You will want to edit the second set of parameters. Do not edit the width nd height in the object tag.

So lets say you want the video to be half size. Just divide the numbers by 2 and you have a video that is half the size of the original YouTube video. (That would be width=212 and height=177) You can do this to whatever size you want just do the math and modify the height and width.

Now if you want to wrap the text like I’ve done in this post check out this post from the past on Justifying your posts.

One more tip - This works great if you want to put a video in your sidebar.