I'm trying to Embed a video in a PDF using Acrobat Pro DC, and once placed on the page, it never shows the video, all it is showing is soundwaves and only the sound plays, not the actual video. The video is .mp4.
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Hi Everyone,
I think this might work:
In Acrobat, go to:
Edit>Preferences>Security (Enhanced)
Uncheck “Enable Protected Mode at startup (Preview)”
Close out of Acrobat, reopen your file, and then it should work. However, this could be a lot of work for someone and they might get frustrated. It would be great if we could be a "trusted source."
Hope this helps,
Kristen
Until Adobe finds a way to play a video reliably and with the playback control bar in a PDF file, the best thing to do is to place it as an attachment and use a button (for example) to trigger the opening of the attachment in the default video player.
@Amal. the same answer has been given several times. This should be easy to replicate. - insert mp4 video file - save - play media file - see soundwaves - try disabling security workaround - this seems to yield two possible outcomes. Either it works or player crashes when we attempt playback. Even if this workaround is effective (and it seems it only works part of the time) it is no good, as we cannot expect to send our merticously created PDF to a customer with instructions to disable secur
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