Videos in PDF
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- kult
Has anyone done any testing between Powerpoint and PDF, when it comes to embedding full-screen animations (.mov, H.264)?
I've seen one Powerpoint launch a full-screen video and it played flawlessly without stuttering (surprisingly). But I haven't experienced any PDF presentations, built in InDesign CS5, that have done it. I know it's possible, but I want to know if one format performs better than the other. The target machine would be a Mac (probably a laptop).
- tOki0
The way to do it is to build your video with a flash video player and then embed it to the file. The acrobat format allows you to natively embed SWFs, as it has the flash plugin/framework built in. This means you get the same kind of performance as a native air application, or if you run it in the standalone flash player (ie the one you compile to from the flash ide). This is advantageous, as the standalone enclosed flash player well and truly outperforms various browser plugin versions.
I'm not sure if you can do it all with indesign - you may need to use acrobat pro (and obviously have a flash video player handy)
Good luck :)
- < I've done this. Flash plays well with PDFs, PPT sucks as at embedding Flash though.CyBrainX
- coldarchon0
don't. one of the reasons I had to buy an alienware ..
- meffid0
They make this so tedious.
Haven't got CS5.5 at work, only 5.1
What ways can you put video in PDF - some quick steps?Cheers,
- meffid0
Bump.
Who's done this (the easy way) successfully and with what codecs?
Also, are you inserting them via Acrobat or straight into indesign?I'm not getting the results I neeeeed.
- idiots0
Acrobat is your friend