How to Create a Video Playlist & Put it on a Website
Sharing video with friends, colleagues and prospective clients has never been easier. Video playlists make it easy to share special moments from your last vacation, organize video tutorials for work colleagues, or present your portfolio before the interview. Before getting started, it's helpful to know your website's video options.
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Instructions
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Share Your Video Playlist
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Choose your videos. Set up an account on YouTube, Vimeo, Metacafe or any other video sharing website. Choose the videos for your playlist. Following instructions, upload videos to your account if they don't already exist on the video sharing website.
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Create your playlist. Log in to your video sharing website account. The process of creating playlists differs across video sharing sites, so it's best to consult your account for details. To set up and add videos to your YouTube playlist, follow instructions in the "playlists" section of your account. Choose properties for your playlist and save. With Vimeo you can create and publish an "Album" as a playlist. You can also use generic code from sites like freecodesource.com to create your playlist embed code. In this case, paste the code into a text editor, then "find and replace" song and artist names, and video URLs to complete your embed code.
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To add the playlist to your website, copy the embed code from your playlist page. Paste the code into your web page or blog post to share. To share via social networks, consult specific website for details. For Facebook, copy and paste the playlist URL in your status update field to share on your wall.
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Tips & Warnings
Tip 1: The faster your Internet connection the better. Because video file sizes are big, it's best to use a fast Internet connection. Slower connections may time out or significantly increase the time it takes to download/upload/share your videos.
Tip 2: If you don't want to limit your playlist to videos from one site, video hosting sites like iVidPlay and embedr make it easy to organize and feature videos from multiple video sharing sites.
Find out if your blog or website has Java Script and Flash capability before you begin. For instance, some blog hosting services may allow certain script on one platform but not another, as with Wordpress.com vs. Wordpress.org. Most blog hosting sites have video options, even if this is the case. Check with your blog hosting site for more information.
