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Making videos in PhotoBooth and embedding them into posts (helpful for iMovie as well)

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1) On your Mac, open Photobooth (icon pictured here) by finding it in your dock or in Applications. This program can capture still images or video.

2) If you want, add effects (sample shown here) to still images. This feature works best when you are in front of a solid, simple background.

3) Make a video by clicking on the button marked with a flim strip on the left below the screen, and wait for the countdown.

4) To upload the video within a post or page you need to use the add media button above the text editor (it has an image like camera with a music note and says “add media”). Once your file is uploaded, click on it and copy the File URL which appears in a text box (should have */file/* somewhere in the url, and should end in .mov). Don’t actually insert the files, but grab the URLs (ie: copy them using command+C). And make sure you’re not grabbing the link to the attachment page, but to the file itself.

6) Then write the post and embed the video by clicking the Q button on the toolbar (for Quicktime). It will ask you for that URL you grabbed (ITFs and admins, make sure the Viper Video Quicktags plugin is activated and Quicktime is enabled as a button in the Viper Video Quicktags Settings).

This will work with iMovie, or any other movie filmed with a Mac program as well! (All mac-produced videos will be classified as mp4.)

Embedding Wix, Tiki-Toki

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Here is a basic guide on how to embed Wix or Tiki-Toki within your sites.

Embedding Wix
To embed Wix, you can insert this very simple line of HTML code into the HTML view of your page: <center><iframe height="430" scrolling="no" width="530" frameBorder="0" src="YOUR WIX URL"></iframe></center>. This code creates a frame area for the Wix page that you paste where it says YOUR WIX URL, making sure to keep the quotations around the URL. Once you have the page location specified, you should see the embedded Wix page once you publish your page.

However, depending on the dimensions of your Wix, you may want to finesse the code a bit more. The height and width suggestions in the code provided here will ensure that the Wix fits snugly on pages with sidebars, but that may not be ideal. You can change scrolling to “yes” to enable allow users to scroll within the frame, which will help viewers see your entire Wix. A better option may be to increase the size of your Wix frame and hide the sidebars to give yourself more space. To hide your sidebars, you will want to select “Hide Primary Sidebar” and “Hide Secondary Sidebar” in the PageLines Section Control area that you will find under the Page Attributes area on the right side of the Page Editor.

Embedding Tiki-Toki
To embed Tiki-Toki, you select Embed from the top of the timeline menu. A Timeline Embed Code pop-up will appear on your frame with these instructions: “Enter the width and height you want for your embeddable timeline. You should then copy the code from the ’embed’ box and add it to your website or blog.” Tiki-Toki provides a suggested width and height, which is a good place to start and can be edited later, so you need only copy the code and paste it into the HTML editor view on the page where you want to show the timeline. Once you paste the code, you will notice that width and height are specified within the first bit of code, which is where they can be edited. Note that the default width will render a timeline a bit wider than fits with sidebars, which means that you might want to use the trick above or reduce the width to around 530.