Video when adding a film

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PeaceAnarchy
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Video when adding a film

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I'm pretty sure I added trailers( or the entire film really, since they're shorts) for some of the films I've added recently but they don't seem to be showing up. I just realized that it's because I just put in the link and not the embeddable code, you might want to clarify that in the add a film page like you have in the update page.

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Re: Video when adding a film

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It does say "Embed a video from..."

PeaceAnarchy
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Re: Video when adding a film

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Yeah but it could be clearer, at least for people like me who aren't used to embedding links. I didn't even know there was a a special embed code, I've always just given out direct links. To be honest, I don't see why I can't just put the url in and have Criticker embed it.

I guess I should have posted this in request features, but I actually thought it was a bug until I went back and realized there was that embed code at youtube.
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Re: Video when adding a film

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It's doable - given a YouTube URL, it is possible to generate the embed code because everything in the embed code except the URL itself is constant, for all videos. Knowing how much work is pending on the Admins' plates though, just changing the description in the submit page to state this more clearly is probably much easier on them.

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Re: Video when adding a film

Post by mpowell »

We've added a little more information to the Submit Film form, which will hopefully make it more clear. You do have to paste in the whole embeddable code. And before submitting, you'll be able to preview the trailer, to make sure it took.

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