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title: "HD Screencast Example"
date: 2009-03-08
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# HD Screencast Example
I learned that if you upgrade your space on a [WordPress.com](https://wordpress.com) blog (not a self-hosted WordPress blog), you can then upload videos using the Add Video button. If you record in a 1280 x 720 px dimension, the uploaded video will be automatically rendered into HD format. You can then grab the embed code for the video and embed it on your self-hosted WordPress blog, changing the width to 640px and the height to 360px, which is what I've done below.

The following video explains a bit about the different files in a WordPress theme. I'm not so much trying to explain this concept as I am demonstrating the HD format for the screencast. Make sure you select the HD On option, since you can't toggle back and forth from Off to On without restarting the video.

If you expand the view to full mode using the expand button in the lower-right corner, you can really see the difference between HD and non-HD. When it's small, the difference isn't that noticeable. Still, either mode is a lot clearer than other non-HD videos compressed to this size.