InDesign CS4 - Animating photos & video

I am just trialling InDesign CS4 and I have added in some video footage and created a button which starts it playing when exported as interactive pdf. I was just wondering if in CS4 there was a way to hide the vido until you hit play and then have the box pop up for the duration of the video and collapse again when finished?
I was also wondering if/how you get images and graphics to fly in/ pop up etc?
Any comments would be appreciated

I've looked everywhere for the answer for this and couldn't find it, either. There's a similar question in the Adobe Help, and, curiously, it is the *only* question on the button page that doesn't have an answer.
So here's my workaround: Shrink the video. I placed the video in a tiny tiny frame (p1xp1) and then fit the content in the frame proportionally (very important or you'll get the dreaded "clipped in ways the pdf files can't reproduce" error when you export). Then I put the video under the button. Odds of someone clicking on that exact pixel on my button, especially if I put it somewhere wonky and offcenter, seemed pretty low.
This is the equivalent of duct tape and baling wire, I realize. But when I can't find the "real" answer, that's how I roll.

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    Dell Optiplex GX620
    Pentium 4 3.00 Ghz CPU
    80 GB Hard drive
    4 GB RAM
    Windows XP SP3
    Dell 1907ftp LCD monitor
    IE ver. 6.0.2900
    McAfee 3.6.0.608 virus checking
    Can anyone help?

    One thing that is missing from your list of system components is the video card used on your system. And that may be the source of your problems. In general, though, we are not aware of any video problems particular to InDesign 6 as opposed to InDesign 4 which you previously had installed.
    Many low-end computers from Dell and others take the low cost route by integrating a graphics display chip, typically from Intel, on the motherboard which does not have its own dedicated graphics memory. It shares memory with Windows. This has several ramifications (pun not really intended, sorry!). The first is that using main memory as video memory means that you have very slow video memory, very much slower than the memory on dedicated graphics cards. The second is that access to that memory competes with disk operations, CPU operations, and virtually everything and anything going on with your system. If in fact your system does have one of these integrated graphics chips in lieu of a real graphics card, there might not be much you can do assuming you have the latest video driver (you said you checked that) unless your Dell OptiPlex allows you to disable the motherboard integrated graphics chip and install a real video card. (To be completely fair, the integrated graphics display chips are perfectly fine for systems that are not running graphically intensive applications - Outlook, Word, and a web browser instance or two work quite well with those configurations.)
    Other things that I would check would be disk space as well as fragmentation. An 80GB disk is not that big these days and if most or much of the remaining free disk space is highly fragmented (as it might be after uninstalling CS2, installing CS4, and perhaps doing a whole bunch of Windows updates including SP3), disk operations, including page file operations, might be excrutiatingly slow.
              - Dov

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