Multimedia Playback options in Acrobat

I have embedded some Captivate 3 flash files into a pdf. I was wondering if there was some way to bring the skin over with them for the play back controls and or have better play back controls than the ones in Acrobat 9? Any ideas?

You will have to use JavaScript to test the conditions and make the button visible. But you will not be able to stop the use of the menu action "File => Print" or the <Ctrl> +"P" keystroke action.

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I need a time line so any part of the what is being played can be found by time, ie at 1 minute and 30 seconds in and continues for 45 seconds out of a 50 minute audo.

If you're talking about a playback controller within the rich media annotation (RMA) then you need to write your own widget in Flash or Flex, and then place the video and widget files using the multimedia "Add Flash" tool in Acrobat instead of the "Add Video" tool. Aside from a bunch of proprietary code to handle events, commenting and the API (which you can live without for basic play-pause-scrub applications), video RMAs are just an embedded SWF file containing an FLVPlayback component. The skin and the video file itself are added to the RMA as resource entries. You can build your own version and have it display whatever controls you want, provided you know how to write ActionScript!
If you're talking about a controller that's external to the RMA (e.g. a series of links or buttons elsewhere on the page) then in the past you would use FLV video files and the 'cue points' feature that's built into Acrobat - however Adobe removed the ability to create FLV files in the latest version of CC, so unless you have CS6 or earlier it's a non-starter. Instead you can manually set playback start points using the special "multimedia operations" link action in your PDF - though stopping playback at a defined point is very difficult without FLV cues. For that you're back to writing your own widget.

Action Playback option changes the Result of an Automated Script.

When using the Playback Option in the Actions menu, then the Results are different with different Acceleration methods.
So the Result is different with, Accelerated - Step by Step - Pauze for [1],
I Expierence the issue with Windows and Mac as well.
This happens with Illustrator CS5 (15.0.1)
# Workflow
     Creating the action:
     Open Illustrator, open the attached document: 4102107 Exact.pdf
     Create an New Action, enable Transform window
     Select the Black Square and the Red text Exact
     Go to Object, Scale > 33.3% and press Copy.
     Then go to Transform an from the upper corner and enter on the
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>Is this as Designed? If So, why because when i understand the function of an automated script. It should exactly get the same
result as programmed, why else would you want to use the script if the result with be different without nothing.
There is running an Escalation case about this, But hopefully anybody more experienced can comment me about this. Or inform wheter it's a bug?
Please help me in this. (thank you in advance!)

To make a few things clear I have created a Video of the issue.
Have a look on:
http://adobesupport.emea.acrobat.com/p65456795/
Maybe i really blow in explaining what exactly happens, but i'll try it again.
When creating an action (as shown in the Video) You can see that the result
is totally different and when creating the action. This is error 1.
- I recieved a respons that we just shouldn't use the Transform Panel. So i requested to know why there is a panel created, if we cannot use it.
No respons.
Then when you select a Playback option in the setting of the Actions Panel,
the Result differs. As you can see when executig in the Accelerated the Movement gets placed WAY out of the file.
When selection Step by Step or Pause for [Numeric] Seconds, then the result is that the movement gets placed
at the bottom of the file. Both of the Results don't even come close in the Action which is created.
Hopefully this will calrify what i ment.

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Display Options in Acrobat X

Hi,
I'm looking to find the Display Option tab in Acrobat PDF Maker X but can't find it, specifically I want to be able to set Document Open Options. In Acrobat 5, there was a Display Option tab which allowed you to set Bookmarks and Page using a radio button and the Open Magnification from a drop down.
Are these options in Acrobat PDF Maker X?
Any information is appreciated.
Thanks

Hi,
Thanks for the reply. I was hoping that you could specify these options before you generate the PDF, you could do this in Acrobat PDF Maker 5.0
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 13:34:37 -0600
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Display Options in Acrobat X
You can set this options in Acrobat X. Look at the properties of the document.
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Video Playback Option in "Preferences/Audio-Video Out"

The following did not make it into the User Guide, though it did get into the troubleshooting docs:
http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/332121.html
332121 Video Playback option in Audio/Video Out preferences (Encore DVD)
A new option was added to the Preferences menu of version 2.0 of Adobe Encore DVD. When you select Edit > Preferences > Audio/Video Out, you see an Automatic option in the Video Playback section. This option is selected by default, allowing Encore DVD 2.0 to play video in a Standard Direct3D mode. If the feature is not selected, then video playback will be in GDI mode.
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http://adobe.groupbrowser.com/threadpage1616-2-10.html
"Re: Acrobat 7 Pro: missing PDF Options menu in all applications
06-23-2005, 07:00 PM #15
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Re: Acrobat 7 Pro: missing PDF Options menu in all applications
Hi all,
I solved this error with Acrobat 7 by deleting the com.adobe.print.AdobePDF7 folder from the user library preferences. It may be missed by those who are deleting preferences because it is not grouped with the com.adobe.acrobat.xxx.plist files.
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I hope this helps.
Best,
John"
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