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July 15, 2009
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How To Embed YouTube Videos in InDesign

  • July 15, 2009
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First time poster, be gentle!

Anyways, I'm designing an internal newsletter for my company, and one of the feature stores includes talks about one of our clients' videos on YouTube, and I would like to embed that video into my InDesign file.

I followed the instructions at http://help.adobe.com/en_US/InDesign/6.0/WSC117AD88-69F6-4658-A1F1-12012B15B9D7.htm, and everything seems to be OK until I click the "Verify URL and Movie Size" button. It gives me the error "URL does not refernce a movie type." I am assuming this is because it's a YouTube video and there are problems reading it, but is there any way around this?

Thanks for your help!

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    lockjaw8y9
    lockjaw8y9
    Participant
    August 3, 2010

    While gettting a  QuickTime movie out youtube or any other source is great for PDF, you'll want to consider FLV or F4V if you're making interactive SWF with InDesign. InDesign CS5 can display video in SWF files, and has a great media importer. You can create cue points on the fly and then refer to them later with button controls. Pretty slick, actually, but requires FLV or F4V to take advantage of it. While MOV can work in PDF, it will require an external player to render. With SWF, the video can be contained in the PDF and play without any external help. In the SWF case, the video gets put in an external media folder that must be uploaded to the server. This is handy, though, because if you build a generic player, you can swap the video in the folder without having to re-export the InDesign job to SWF every time.

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    Anonymous
    August 19, 2010

    Just wondering if anyone has found a way to embed streaming media content such as youtube, vimeo, or other video provider movies into Indesign? I also need to be able to place streaming audio from an http source.

    I want to export my indesign files to flash to create interactivity but really have no idea how to use Flash.

    I am not even sure Flash can embed streaming media content from you Youtube or streaming audio content.

    I looked into using PDF (via the Youtubewidget and it works great) but the issue I have there is that it's page transitions are very weak visually compared to that of Flash's page turn effect. I found a source for some code which looks Ok but does not compare to Flash. Here is the site link. http://www.coastworx.com/bookflip.php

    Is there a way to export from a PDF to Flash and have all the media & links stay intact?

    On another note, I did some testing in Indesign CS5. If you try and place a video from a URL it will require that the video start with HTTP or RTMP (for flash media server). I tried using the standard object embed codes from Youtube but it informs you that it is not properly formatted. I even tried to truncate it to start with the HTTP section of the code but it provided me with an error, stating it must start with HTTP or RTMP.

    Does anyone know how to accomplish what I am looking to do?

    Thanks in advance...

    Robert

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    Anonymous
    July 15, 2009

    Silly Question are you connected to the interweb thingy when you verify?

    ColdfirePromotions
    ColdfirePromotionsAuthor
    Participant
    July 15, 2009

    Peter,

    I guess I could dowload it from YouTube that way and host it myself, I'm just unaware of what programs are out there that make that possible. Know of any legit ones? Also, there are no copyright issues - we have permission to use it.

    Burko,

    Yes, I am connected to the internet when I try linking the video.

    Jongware
    Community Expert
    JongwareCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    July 15, 2009

    A google on "youtube conversion" resulted in this promising link: http://www.zamzar.com/

    Peter Spier
    Community Expert
    Peter SpierCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    July 15, 2009

    Can you get the video from the client directly in one of the supported formats?

    ColdfirePromotions
    ColdfirePromotionsAuthor
    Participant
    July 15, 2009

    Unfortunately probably not. Our client is just in the video, it wasn't produced by her. Is it possible to embed the code using some other function?

    Peter Spier
    Community Expert
    Peter SpierCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    July 15, 2009

    I'm afraid I don't know any more than what you can read in the help files. Can you download the video from YouTube and host it yourself? What sort of copyright issues are there going to be if your client didn't produce this video -- have you got permission form the owner?

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