I want this to be 300 pixels wide, and when I hit tab, it figures out the other field for me. Now I'll scroll down here a little bit, and I can change my video size from one of these other sizes to custom size. Now, before I copy that embed code, I need to change the size of the video.

You simply come down here and click Share, and then click embed. To drop this into InDesign, I need to copy the embed code, and it's really easy to find that on YouTube. So now I'll switch over to my web browser, and I can see a video that I want to use. Alright, I want my video to be about 300 pixels wide. When you right click, you see a list of a bunch of different measurement systems that you can use. And you can do that by right clicking on the horizontal ruler across the top of the document window. Now, if your control panel doesn't show pixels, you want to change it so that it does. I can see that by looking up here in the control panel. And I can see that this frame is 300 pixels wide. So I want to place it here, on top of this white frame. That is, how large do I want it on my page? And it's important to do that first because it's a real pain to resize it once it's on the page in InDesign. First, before I switch to YouTube, I want to check what size of video I want. The good news is, there is a way to get a YouTube video in, and it's actually really easy. And it only works with a small number of file formats. Unfortunately, this only works when you point to a video file on a server. You might try the media panel, and in fact if I go to the window menu and then choose interactive and then media, you'll see that there is an option inside the media panel menu for video from URL. You can't use the place command from the file menu of course, because this only lets you place files from disc, and the YouTube video is not on my disc. And one of the most common questions I hear when people are creating a digital onscreen publication is can I put a YouTube video into it? Well, it's a good question, because there is no obvious way to import one. Like sales presentations, ebooks, or magazines. You can create amazing interactive documents too. As you know, InDesign is not just for print.

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