Placing a video as a URL in InDesign for online publishing

[benb97069474]

Hi, I've created an interactive map in InDesign with seven 30-second videos and a bunch of photos that appear on rollover. The map is pretty slow and I would like to speed it up by placing the video as URLs instead of saving them directly to the document. When I place the videos as URLs into the InDesign document they appear fine in the programme, but when I hit the publish online button they do not appear. Any suggestions? Thanks

[Mike Witherell]

Have you considered tinkering with in5?

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[Diane Burns]

Possible to post the Publish Online URL? Thnx

[maxwithdax · Accepted solution]

Interactive pdf and video do not produce consistent results. If you are looking for something that is stable, html5 would be the better workflow.

[David Healy]

In InDesign I created a frame and went to the media panel and selected “Video from URL...”. When I entered my URL it said the file name had to start with, “http:”. My URL starts with, “https:” and it wouldn’t accept it. Is there a work around? I am using InDesign 17.2.1.

I will be exporting the final version with in5.