Adding video trouble.

[kaylamarie678]

Hey everyone. I'm trying to add MP4 videos to my pdf document on Indesign. I add them and they play and then when I export as interactive and open it they are just images. No interaction. Any ideas? I've been trying to get through this all morning 😫

[Derek Cross · Accepted solution]

Use a hyperlink in the PDF to an external site, such as a YouTube video, or similar, or use FXL ePub, InDesign's Publish Online, or the InDesign plugin (at extra cost), in5.

[Diane Burns · Accepted solution]

PDFs aren't really ideal for including videos. All kinds of problems with so-called "interactive" PDFs. https://www.boblevine.us/its-okay-to-say-no-to-interactive-pdf/

As Derek mentions, use another format if possible. Publish Online handles videos beautifully. Here are many samples of intereractive documents, many of which include video: http://bit.ly/PubOnCollection