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Thursday, July 28, 2005

How do they get the Caramilk inside?

I don't know how they get the Caramilk inside the Caramilk bar, but I do know how I make my dance videos.
A few weeks ago, I started to tell you how I make my videos. In particular, I told you how I take videos from my girlfriend's Canon PowerShot S410 and then make WMV files using ArcSoft VideoImpression 2. However, I have not told you how I get the videos onto my blog. The most important thing is finding a place to host the videos. I pay for my webspace and domain name (which are funded by DD Store sales and Google Ad clicks). When I make a new video, I FTP the video file to the web server. I also FTP an image, captured from the master videos, which I display in my posts. Here is an example of the HTML code:
<a href="http://videos.dailydancer.com/videos/2005/07/wild_thing.wmv">
 <div align="center"><img height="180" src="http://videos.dailydancer.com/videos/2005/07/wild_thing.jpg" width="240" /></div>
 <div align="center">Wild Thing</div>
</a>
If you don't want to purchase webspace, you can find sites out there that will host your videos for free. So now (I hope), you have the knowledge to make your own dance video site. Even better, you have the tools to make videos that I can display on my site on my off days! Yes, I still welcome guest dancers... That reminds me, we haven't heard from thestick lately... Anyway, my latest video is coming right up!
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