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You thought I'd forgotten the second part of the embedding FLVs in iWeb tutorial - not so!  Today we'll try to save you some time incorporating Flash Videos with iWeb.  It's still not the easiest process in the world, but at least it doesn't require a web programming hat to get the job done!

This lesson will allow you to embed a really fully-featured Flash Video player -- complete with Fullscreen Mode button -- into your iWeb site relatively easily.

The first step is to download our support files for this operation: ZIP File, 112kb.  Now, bear in mind that we offer these files as sort of an exercise rather than as software that we support in any formal sort of way.  The files are pretty straightforward to follow -- but everything you do with them is entirely at your own risk.

You can find more compression settings articles in our Supercharging Compressor series index.

After yesterday's article on why I prefer Flash Video to Quicktime, a couple of you wrote to ask just how you'd incorporate Flash Video content into your iWeb sites.  Well, as you might expect, it's harder than it should be: Apple really does want you to use Quicktime, even where it's inappropriate.  Your friends at GeniusDV are on the case: we can't make it painless, but we can make it a whole lot easier.

First things first: Dreamweaver provides the easiest way to embed Flash video -- you just drop the .FLV into your webpage.  If you have (and are comfortable with) Dreamweaver but you like iWeb's aesthetics, your best bet is simply to create your webpages in iWeb, then open then in  Dreamweaver to drop in the video before you put them on your live website.

Otherwise, strap yourself in and read on ...

Being able to output with Apple Compressor, and upload in one step is a very useful function. I am guilty of not knowing what Remote meant when I would create a destination for my Compressor projects. Recently I got caught needing to compress a HD Quicktime movie to Mpeg4, and get it loaded up to the internet. The issue was I had to leave for the airport 10 minutes ago. With Compressor I was able to upload it to my iDisk. I started the compression with the iDisc as the destination, and left for the airport. While I was waiting to board my plane I hopped on the internet, downloaded the mpeg4 movie off of my iDisc, put it into an iWeb page, and published it to the web. Being able to output to my iDisk really saved me.