Adding Movies to InDesign Documents

I successfully added a .swf file movie to an InDesign document and published to PDF - the first take went fine.
Then I added audio to my (Captivate) file, republished as .swf, and placed it in another InDesign document.
This time I get the message: "One or more interactive elements are clipped in ways that PDF files cannot reproduce. Those elements will be adjusted in the exported PDF."
The PDF file appears to be blank.
Should I be able to place a .swf file that includes sound into an InDesign file for output to PDF? Perhaps I am doing something else wrong, but I want to verify that the sound should come over with the .swf.
Anne G.

See this Help topic. From InDesign CS4, you have two ways to create Flash files -- SWF and XFL. If you export to SWF, you can include page curls, hyperlinks, transitions, and navigation buttons. If you export to XFL, you lose any button, hyperlink, or transition you've added in InDesign, and you use Flash Pro to add those things along with fancier animation effects. If you export to SWF, you can't edit the file. If you export to XFL, you have to know Flash Pro well enough to edit the file.

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