Remove Video Options

[austind69658590]

I was trying to create a pdf with some short videos included that I could send to clients. I didn't realize that the videos I watched where you can export videos included in a PDF were old and that this was no longer possible (at least to my knowledge). So if there isn't a way export the document with the video included, why is there even an option to import videos? It's like going to a restaurant, ordering from the menu and they tell you they actually don't make that dish. If that's the case, shouldn't that option just be removed?

[Derek Cross]

To include video in an Interactive PDF, include a link to an external site such as Youtube video or similar.

[austind69658590]

That is a work around, just not what I was intending to do. It also still makes the 'import video' function obsolete if you can't actually include it inside of the PDF.

If that's my only option, then that'll have to work!

[BobLevine]

Your analogy is not at all accurate. There are formats (EPUB and Publish Online) where it does work.

[austind69658590]

I tried both of those options and neither allowed me to play the videos inside the PDF. Possible there is something that I'm doing wrong, but I have yet to find a way to get them to work.

From what I read, having playable videos inside a PDF was removed when Flash was discontinued. Could be a misunderstanding on my part.

[BobLevine]

Neither of those formats has anything to do with PDF. Again, you are wasting your time trying to get video or just about any other kind of interactivity to work in a PDF. 

[James Gifford—NitroPress]

As noted, some options apply to more than one export format.

Given that almost any kind of document with video, even remote links, is likely to be bulky and thus unappreciated by clients and prospects and the like, I'd suggest doing your presentation as a web page and sending the link. (Publish Online is the halfway step to that, exporting ID layouts to a web format, but on a specific hosted system.)

By building it as a web page, you have almost no limits on interactive and multimedia elements, and you don't clog up anyone's inbox or make them download some enormous file.

[austind69658590]

I tried to publish it online through indesigns built-in publishers, but the videos would not play. They were still just still images. It may be something on my end, but I haven't been able to figure out what I'm doing wrong.

[BobLevine]

Well, then you'll have to back up and give us details on exactly what you're doing and seeing, along with a link to the Publish Online document. We're here to help, but we're not mindreaders.