Embedding After Effects Animations into InDesign

Question

Hi there,

Is there a way for me to seamlessly embed animations made from After Effects into InDesign? Preferably without the playback controls at all.

I'm wanting to animate a masthead design and the animations on InDesign are very limited.

I have done the following:

Created an animation on After Effects

Used Media Encoder to export the animation as an .MP4.

Embedded the .MP4 file into InDesign

Published Online.

The video plays fine but there's a couple of issues:

1. The playback controls are always there.

2. The video has a solid background even though I toggled the Transparency Grid off on After Effects.

I'm wanting the masthead to animate automatically on the page load and then remain there whilst the user is on that page - if this makes sense?

Thanks!

Robert at ID-Tasker · Answer

I don't have much experience with placing videos in InDesign - but I don't see plaback controls either:

BUT - there are options in the scripting?

showController	Boolean	read/write	If true, displays controller skin with mouse rollover.
showControls	Boolean	read/write	If true, displays playback controls at the bottom of the movie display window.

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