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Jinny14
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April 2, 2020
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Media Panel

  • April 2, 2020
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Making an interactive PDF but I'm having trouble with the media panel. When I add a mp4 file to a page the media panel won't open. Not able to have any control on the video at all. All the other tabs work in the Interactive Window except for Media. Help please?

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Derek Cross
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Derek CrossCommunity Expert
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April 26, 2020

Adobe promise to support PDF 2.00 in 2021, if and when that happens, we'll be able to include successfully, video (and more) in our Interactive PDFs. In the meantime it's as mentioned previously. 

    Peter Villevoye
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    Peter VillevoyeCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    April 26, 2020

    Oooh, that's right on time (maybe 10 years too late, but nevertheless...)

    And what video codecs might be supported, and with or without DRM ?

    JavaScript, anyone ? We'll see... 

    Peter Villevoye
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    Peter VillevoyeCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    April 26, 2020

    LISTEN, like Derek also clearly stated: STEER AWAY from using audio and video media in PDF. It simply doesn't work !! Many PDF viewers don't support it. Your next community question will absolutely be: "Why doesn't MP4 in my PDF play on this or that device". And don't use the Buttons panel either for PDF...

     

    And apart from that, the whole approach, interface, information, and documentation of Adobe about these interactive features is partially wrong and even misleading. It has become a can of worms, since Adobe decided to drop all ambitions in this area (in InDesign), went for the Big Money (with the Experience Cloud), and just forgot to correct or at least retract all flawed or even abandoned technologies in InDesign.

     

    Use IN5 if you're adamant about using InDesign to create interactive stuff for HTML5 output and purposes.

    https://ajarproductions.com/pages/products/in5/

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      Katherine.i
      Participant
      April 5, 2020

      same problem :(((

      Derek Cross
      Community Expert
      Derek CrossCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      April 5, 2020

      Video can't be successfully be distributed via an Interactive PDF. You can include hyperlinks in your PDF to external sources, such as YouTube. (Or use another format as I mentioned.)

      Derek Cross
      Community Expert
      Derek CrossCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      April 4, 2020

      Don't use PDF, use FXL ePub, InDesign's Publish Online or in5.

        Anna Lander
        Anna Lander
        Inspiring
        April 4, 2020

        Do you mean, you can't open Media panel from Window > Interactive menu? Or I didn't see the problem well?

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        Jinny14Author
        Participant
        April 6, 2020

        The media panel from window>interactive menu wouldn't open. It works now but seems like I have to delete all temp files in my drive before getting it to work everytime.

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