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Powerpoint to PDF converts videos to images

  • April 20, 2021
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I am using the full Acrobat & office 365 in this experient - when I convert powerpoint slides with:

  • embedded videos and/or
  • online videos such as youtube or vimeo

the resulting PDF shows an image instead of a video.

Under the PDF conversion settings in powerpoint I've switch 'convert multimedia' to both off and on, but I end up with the same result - an image and not a video.

 

Finally, I edited the PDF, deleted the image and tried to add a video, but I keep getting the error "No media file has been specified".  I tried a vimeo URL and a youtube, but I keep getting this.

 

I double-checked all my Adobe apps were upto date.  I am running Windows 10 64bit latest.  I'm at a bit of a loss as to what to do next.  I thought embedded video might be an issue, so I tried adding as an online video to powerpoint but it's just not happening, I keep getting the video replaced as an image.

Does anyone have any ideas at all? 

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    Correct answer Cntl+Alt+Del for help

    Thanks Amal for the quick reply.  I read through the link you sent and the summary of the solution seems to be: "Adobe isn't aware of modern streaming platforms and insists on using a solution from 1998."

    Take a look at how, say, add a video is added to a wordpress post - it is exactly how you'd expect: drop the URL and .... it plays.  SURELY for the amount of money we pay Adobe every month you've got enough resources to modernise this?

     

    I'm laughing because that link is maked as the 'correct answer'.  It's like saying the correct answer to fixing a crashed computer is to grab 35 floppy disks and slowly re-install windows.  Come on Adobe! we all know it's NOT the right answer, it's just a solution that hasn't recognised streaming video services of the modern age. 

    Can we fix this please?  Can Adobe update this so we can place a video from a streaming service and it simply DOES IT.

    This would keep the PDF file size low and all you need to develop is a video streaming window which pulls through the youtube/vimeo to the PDF.  

    Yes Im ranting, but it's glaringly obvious that this is wrong.  It's a bug.  It's not fixed.  There's a gaping hole in the beautiful world of universal document types that we love - The PDF*

     

    *Unless you want video in it, then you've f*cked.

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    Amal.
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    Amal.Community Manager
    Community Manager
    April 21, 2021

    Hi there

     

    Hope you are doing well and sorry for the trouble. As described you are unable to insert the video from YouTube or Vimeo into a PDF file and getting the above error

     

    Please check out the correct answer marked in a similar discussion https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat/placing-videos-into-pdf-using-web-url-instead-of-local-file/m-p/7888518 and see if that works for you.

     

     

    Regards

    Amal

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    April 21, 2021

    Thanks Amal for the quick reply.  I read through the link you sent and the summary of the solution seems to be: "Adobe isn't aware of modern streaming platforms and insists on using a solution from 1998."

    Take a look at how, say, add a video is added to a wordpress post - it is exactly how you'd expect: drop the URL and .... it plays.  SURELY for the amount of money we pay Adobe every month you've got enough resources to modernise this?

     

    I'm laughing because that link is maked as the 'correct answer'.  It's like saying the correct answer to fixing a crashed computer is to grab 35 floppy disks and slowly re-install windows.  Come on Adobe! we all know it's NOT the right answer, it's just a solution that hasn't recognised streaming video services of the modern age. 

    Can we fix this please?  Can Adobe update this so we can place a video from a streaming service and it simply DOES IT.

    This would keep the PDF file size low and all you need to develop is a video streaming window which pulls through the youtube/vimeo to the PDF.  

    Yes Im ranting, but it's glaringly obvious that this is wrong.  It's a bug.  It's not fixed.  There's a gaping hole in the beautiful world of universal document types that we love - The PDF*

     

    *Unless you want video in it, then you've f*cked.

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      December 13, 2024

      This is simultaneously hilarious and excruciatingly absurd. So basically, over 2 decades into the 21st century, this multi-billion-dollar coporation with thousands of developers who is the #1 company of its kind in the world, and releasing updates every 5 minutes, cannot program the software to embed and call a video URL into their documents from an internet connected computer? So my audience has to download a huge video file onto their hard drive to play it? So "tonight we're going to share docs like it's 1999?" LMAO.

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