Issues with viewing Interactive PDF.

Question

I am a professor and use Indesign to design my digital slideshows—both images and videos. After exporting as Interactive PDF I view the files through Acrobat. I have two problems. After viewing one of the videos in acrobat I am not able to move on to the next image or video. The video just ends and the screen stays black. My workaround is to hit 'escape' to exit full screen mode. Upon entering fullscreen mode again I am able to resume viewing the PDF. There must be a better solution than this. My second problem is that the MOV files don't have sound when viewed in acrobat as interactive PDFS, yet these same MOV have sound when viewed with quicktime. Any ideas?

Answer 1

There's no way within the default workflow tools in Acrobat to automatically advance a PDF when a video annotation stops playing, but you can do it by replacing the video player widget with a customized one and adding some JavaScript to the PDF. However  it'll need to be done in Acrobat after the PDF has been exported.
As to the audio in your MOV file, it's because it's not in the correct format. Acrobat and Adobe Reader can render Flash video or native H.264 video streams, and AAC or MP3 audio, but cannot play the Linear PCM audio that is commonly included in Quicktime files (e.g. from a DSLR camera). You'll need to transcode the file into the correct format (H.264/AAC) - which is one reason why Acrobat Suite and Creative Suite collections include Adobe Media Encoder.