VR/Panoramic video embedding in Acrobat PDF

[KevinFlood]

Hi has anyone got a solution/workflow for embedding VR/Panoramic video in an Acrobat Pro PDF?

Video model created in C4D & edited in Ae - I need the the VR contols in the video to work in the PDF as they do on youtube/VLC etc.

[Dave Merchant]

No longer realistically possible. Many years ago there was a method to "embed" the YouTube player into a PDF, but it broke YouTube's terms and conditions so the loophole was rapidly plugged. The only thing you can do now is embed (or stream) a regular MP4 video file, with standard playback controls. You can't embed part of a website, nor can you load up an installed player like VLC.

As far as Adobe is concerned PDFs are for "documents", which are boring printable things with maybe a form field at the very most. Anything interactive / multimedia is dumped into the lap of EPUB and native apps.

Host the video online somewhere with working navigation controls, and just put a hyperlink in the PDF.

[KevinFlood]

Thanks will possibly look at Epub rather

[JR Boulay]

"You can't embed part of a website"

Not in a regular PDF file but it is possible in a PDF Portfolio: use "Add Web Content".

[KevinFlood]

Thanks, youtube embeds okay (both link & embed code) - but without 360 controls.