Pages: QTMovies and Exporting to .pdf

Hi,
In Pages, I write a newsletter which I export to .pdf's which are emailed and posted online.
I have no problem with "static" media converting to the .pdf format. It all works.
But, now I want to embed QT movies created in Snapz Pro X. I can place them in the Pages document but they don't transfer to the .pdf as a movie -- the first frame comes in and that's all.
There must be a way to do this. I don't expect anyone to take the time to write me a tutorial -- but could you point me in the right direction so I can read something?
Thanks.
sjh

I don't expect anyone to take the time to write me a tutorial
In principle, embedding a QuickTime movie has long been possible in PDF. If memory serves, since Adobe Acrobat 2.1 in 1996. In practice it's not so simple. PDF was originally aimed at office archiving alongside architectures like Adobe PostScript Fax supported in the Adobe/Apple PostScript driver at the time. This aim changed in 1995-1996 when Adobe began to aim PDF at its core community which is prepress. The problem is that a QuickTime movie is not what you want in a pagination prepared for prepress. A group of prepress people put out a white paper on PDF for prepress and one thing led to another until the PDF/X specifications arrived. The PDF/X specifications define how to prepare a portable page description for blind eXchange (whence the X in PDF/X). Thus if PDF is seen as a prepress platform then by default QuickTime does not belong in PDF. This can be confusing since there are still several ways to see PDF, for instance, QuarkXPress and InDesign see PDF differently.
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