Embed Quicktime Movies into a WordPress Blog

This is really cool, but it’s only for WordPress blogs hosted yourself, and not the ones like this one hosted at WordPress.com. But maybe (surely?) it will come to WordPress.com soon. In the meanwhile, the video player that they have as an upgrade at WordPress.com is not bad. It’s wide aspect ratio. I think its still some kind of flash, but it seems clearer.

But I digress. For those who have WordPress blogs hosted on other servers, I found this site that developed a Plug-In that allows you to embed Quicktime movies into your WordPress posts. Channel-Ai’s plugin has a couple different cool features that allow you to display the movie and controls in a couple of different ways. Examples and a download of the program are all right there on their site.

*One side note to save you a little trouble. When you size your movie, make sure you size it in the post at least as large as you sized it when you the rendered the movie. This may sound like a no brainer, but I used the default sizes that Ai has demonstrated, and I wondered why my movie was missing its controls. My movie itself was rendered in something like 285 height, while I had plugged in their 240 number, so I had no controls! Duh! Just something to keep in mind