Why won't video show up in Responsive HTML using FM 12?

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July 9, 2014
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I work for a government facility where I'm required to convert procedures from Word into FrameMaker adding supplementary content like photos and videos. I've been inserting the picture and video files and they show up fine within the FM document, but once published to responsive HTML 5 and I view the output, the photos show up with no caption that I added in, and no videos show up whatsoever. I added seperate text frames within the document to insert "captions" for the photos and video and they all get pushed to the bottom of the HTML page.

For the life of me, I can't figure out a way to get the videos and photos to simply show up on HTML the way they do in FrameMaker.

Any ideas or suggestions to what it is I'm doing wrong?

Thank you so much!

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Arnis Gubins

Inspiring

Brian,

Only content within an anchored frame will get passed through to the HTML output. Are your text frames within the AFrame containing the graphic? Did you specify to use Distiller to convert the graphics in the settings of the Publish step?

Which video format did you use? Did you set the AFrame and video size large enough to properly display in the HTML output? Did you set a Poster file for the video? Did you create video controls and where did you place them?

brian_gomezAuthor

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I thought they were anchored already when you insert a video within a text frame? I'm probably wrong though. Do you know of how to place content in an anchored frame? I've had no luck finding a way to do that.

The format I've been using for videos is WMV, but also can use a MP4 version of the video. I'm a beginner with this product so I don't really know the in's and out's of publishing this content.

Arnis Gubins

Inspiring

If your insertion point is in a paragraph and then you do File > Import > File, FM will automatically insert the content into an anchored frame that is anchored in the paragraph of the insertion point.

For videos, you must not have anything else within the anchored frame (such as FM generated video controls). A WMV should work, but it all depends upon which browser/device you use for viewing the resulting output. Not all browsers support all video formats equally. I think that MP4 would be a safer bet.

Also, it appears that any posters set for the videos aren't used in the published output. Here's a sample showing various modifications together with an image and video.

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