The biggest game in video hosting right now is of course YouTube. They make it incredibly easy to upload clips to their site, and even make it possible to take those clips and embed them on your own site.
For Forum Users
If you are on a Mac system, you can create video clips very easily using iMovie. If you are on a PC platform, you can use iMovie to create your video clips. These are used if you are starting with source material from a DV camcorder, which is generally what most people find when they go to best buy.
However, if you are looking for a quick and easy way to post videos, you can sidestep the editing process almost completely. You see, internet videos are usually low resolution, and low file size for fast download. The DV camcorder has waay to much resolution. Most users spend much of their time recompressing these videos before posting online.
So ask yourself, why not save yourself a lot of time, and shoot your video in a format that will be suitable for immediate forum posting, and save you from the hastle of managing all those pesky DV tapes.
Grab yourself one of the very inexpensive MPEG4 camcorders with either hard drive or SD card storage. You can then pop the SD card or USB cable directly into your PC, and upload the video directly to Youtube. I made the video below on a Sony Handycam DV camcorder, and spent approx 20 minutes recompressing it and lowering the resolution for online postinng. That time could have been saved by using mpeg4 directly, which Youtube redily accepts.
For Site Administrators
If you use Vbulletin then by default most users will not be able to paste HTML. This is to protect your site. Rather than enabling HTML, you can use the following extension: AME Auto Media Embedding. The AME extension automatically detects links to google and youtube videos, and embeds a video player safely.
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