Indesign 2020 Interactive PDF - No controller option when adding video?

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July 8, 2020
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Hi everyone!

I hope you are all safe and well 🙂

Really hoping someone can help me with this one as I'm submitting my final university project in a few days and I can't seem to fix this issue!

I want to be able to modify/add a stop - play - pause bar on videos that I have added to my doc, but when I insert the vid and click on media pannel there are no options for this? I'm sure it used to be called controller?

Is there something really simple I'm missing here? Getting really stressed out lol x

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Correct answer JonathanArias

correct. indesign 2020 did away with all options in your indesign panels which used flash technology. thats one of them in that panel.

If you absolutely need to have those controls, install indesign 2019 or older to open that file ( make a .idml).

Ashutosh_Mishra

Inspiring

Hi there,

Thanks for reaching out. In addition to the useful responses given earlier, please check out this help article for more information about adding media/sounds in InDesign files. Hope it helps.

Regards,

Ashutosh

miho272

Participant

Hi there,

I had the same issue, no controllers after exporting 'interactive PDF'. Troubleshooting:

open the PDF with Acrobat
right-click the video and make sure it's de-activated
that's how you could reach the 'properties' panel.

There you change everything you want, even placeholder image, controls, fullscreen, autoplay, ...

Regards,
miho

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Svi5FCA

Participant

Hi Miho! I hope you're well.
In the properties panel of PDF there ar only two options for the bar control for video: "none" or "all", also it is u¿inhabilited the option of color. So, even I choose "all controls", no change happens. I don't know what to do. After I export to PDF interactive I can see the video, but ? cant manage it with the playback control. May be you know something about. Thank you in advance.

JonathanAriasCorrect answer

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correct. indesign 2020 did away with all options in your indesign panels which used flash technology. thats one of them in that panel.

If you absolutely need to have those controls, install indesign 2019 or older to open that file ( make a .idml).

ShannonMcAlindenAuthor

Participating Frequently

Hey Jonathan, Thank you for explaining, I thought I was going crazy! - Do you mind me asking where I would find/how I would go about installing an older version?