Embedding Video to a Flash Site

[filmsofmoore]

Ok-- so I'm in the process of creating a flash website from a template I bought. I'm using an "easy template" so I am only altering a text.html file to customize the flash site's content (I'm not touching the actual flash code itself and don't have the software to do this anyway). I'd like to embed some videos onto the site (either from youtube, imdb, etc)-- but when I paste the embed code into the text.html file the video doesn't show up. I can paste the embed code into the index file, but the video ends up on top pushing the flash content below it. Is there any way I can put video into the actual body of the flash website?

Any help would be appreciated, I'm just an actress/filmmaker trying to get a good site going.

thanks!

[Eye for Video]

Well the good part is...there are no "Flash" Web pages, only Web pages with Flash content. So you can add other content before (as you did) or after the Flash content. If your template does not allow you to break into the middle of it and add video, you may have to add the video content below the other Flash content. That's one of the drawback to using a template, you may not be able to customize them very much. Of course, if you have access to the Flash .fla file, you can alter the template to make your video fit in.
But you do have the option of adding video after the other Flash content. You would place your embed code (or object or swfobject) on index.html after the code for the template is placed on the page. If you set the background color of your page to the same color as the background of your template, it would look sort of like it was part of the original Flash content. You may have to customize your video player a little to give it the same look as your template. And since the entire template is on index.html, your video portion will show up regardless of which Flash "page" or section is playing above it.
My advice for an up and coming film maker, you can do a lot better than YouTube to show off your stuff. They really throttle down the bitrate (about 250kbps) and then add on their logo. Render your video at a higher bitrate, watermark your work, and only post it on your site. Your site will get no Google ratings for videos shown on YouTube. If your site is the one and only place on earth to view them, then as your videos are watched, your page ranking will increase, not YouTubes. If you place your video using swfobject, you can create alternate content in html text to describe and tell the story about your video. All this alt content will be index and help your Google rankings start to climb.
Good luck on your project,
Eye for Video,
www.cidigitalmedia.com/video.html
view page source, then scroll down to
<!-- Alternate content -->
for a sample of what your alt content can say about your videos.

[tedscoffee]

If you have little flash actionscript or programming experience, you can consider to use this Flash Video Player software (http://video.a4desk.com)to help you to create flash videos, and embed to your web page. I doubt if you are actually using a flash webpage, but the video is in flash (coverted from AVI, MPG into FLV), and can be embed into any HTML page

[WhiteDragon]

True, best to create your own page or learn how to change the template you got, so you can have the look and feel you want. Since you got a template it is easier and will save you from doing everything from the ground up, which is or can be a lot of work and frustration. Which is why a lot use FaceBook instead of designing a page from scratch cause it's simple but IMO it's not a recommendation to promote yourself as someone who is serious about what they do. It can be "OK" to promote yourself within a circle of people, if that's what you want.