InDesign Embedded YouTube Video Problem

[default52q82v0tbiny]

Help! 

I'm having issues with InDesign which is making want to lose the will to live and I can't for the life of me figure out what I'm doing wrong (if anything).

Basically I am making a page spread which will contain 10 thumbnail images. Each of those images is a button which will then pop up an embedded YouTube video. These videos will fade in and then have a close function which fades out wheh pressed. I have created all the thumbnails and applied the animations/buttons/timing/etc  which work fine (for reference I have been following this video: Learn how to create an interactive pop-up video in Adobe InDesign)

Everything seems to work fine however when I publish the document online, I play the first video which works correctly, however when the video has closed, it fades out but for some reason it remains on the document - just invisible which menas I can't select any of the other buttons as when I click it just interacts with the embedded video - I realise this is really difficult to explain through words!

Any suggestions/ideas??

[default52q82v0tbiny]

Help! 

I'm having issues with InDesign which is making want to lose the will to live and I can't for the life of me figure out what I'm doing wrong (if anything).

Basically I am making a page spread which will contain 10 thumbnail images. Each of those images is a button which will then pop up an embedded YouTube video. These videos will fade in and then have a close function which fades out wheh pressed. I have created all the thumbnails and applied the animations/buttons/timing/etc  which work fine (for reference I have been following this video: Learn how to create an interactive pop-up video in Adobe InDesign)

Everything seems to work fine however when I publish the document online, I play the first video which works correctly, however when the video has closed, it fades out but for some reason it remains on the document - just invisible which menas I can't select any of the other buttons as when I click it just interacts with the embedded video - I realise this is really difficult to explain through words!

Any suggestions/ideas??

[Anubhav M]

Hello @default52q82v0tbiny,

Could you share more details, like the version of the OS/InDesign installed, a link to a sample file and a small screen recording of your exact workflow and the problem, so I can better assist you?

Looking forward to hearing from you.
Anubhav

[default52q82v0tbiny]

Hello - I have replied to the answer below wiith some screenshots of what I am trying to achieve and what I am experiencing.  I'm using Windows 10 with InDesign 2022.

[BobLevine]

This would be best handled with a multi state object but I'd need way more details. Worth noting that that the video you linked to does not mention embedded Youtube video but embedded MP4 files.

[default52q82v0tbiny]

[default52q82v0tbiny]

Here's some images showing the progress of what happens (dont have access to screen recording on my work computer unfortunately). This should hopefully show what I'm trying to do. I have used embedded videos from YouTube instead of locally stored videos as I feel the file size will be too big to publish online.

[default52q82v0tbiny]

Each thumbnail is a button which then loads up the embedded YouTube video (Fig. 1). The first one works fine and does exactly what I want (Fig. 2), however when I click the close button, the animations for fading the video, background and close button away work fine, however the video still remains, albeit invisible. You can see this on Fig. 3 with the cursor howevering over where the Play icon is on the embedded video. Fig. 4 shows that none of the other buttons work now due to the invisivble video covering the rest of the thumbnail - see the cursor.