Playing video in Interactive PDFs

When I embed a video (.mp4, .flv, etc) and export to an interactive PDF in Indesign, I keep getting asked to download the newest version of Flash player (which I already did) and the video won't play. Any suggestions?

Are you playing the video in Acrobat? If so, I'd ask in the Acrobat forums. It's not really an InDesign issue.
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I have created an Interactive PDF using Indesign CS6. It is a 43 page pdf with a video embedded on 5 of those pages. When the final PDF is played on a PC, the videos seems to play sluggishly after watching a previous video. It seems there is some sort of background process going on once the videos play that hampers the playback of the next video. Has anyone else had this issue?
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MD

Thanks for your reply Dave.
The .mp4 videos are imported into InDesign and are controlled using one of the Skin options from the Media tab which allow the user to Play/Stop/Seek/Mute/Vol.
The video sizes are 677k, 2.7mb, 3.9mb, 13.2mb, and 13.4mb.
Also, when I'm playing a video with audio, if I decide to go to the next page before stopping the video, the audio still plays in the background even though I'm on a different page. It doesn't look like there are too many options to choose from on the Media tab in InDesign so I'm wondering if there is something I'm missing to have more control over the video.
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Hello...good people! I want to create an interactive PDF using a published FC swf (offline view version) with flv video and animation. The problem I'm having is with video playback inside the pdf. EVERYTHING ELSE WORKS EXCEPT VIDEO! It's as if Acrobat is not reading the asset folder (where the video file is located) created by FC. All animations work and even the video control (skin) appears! Just....no....video!
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As a matter of fact, I am able to create damn-near-the-same SWF (with flv video playback and animation) inside InDesign CS5 (hint hint!) using the animation and media panel and Export> SWF command (and again everything works perfectly!)
In case you want to know how I do it, here's how it works....
1. Drag-and-drop your SWF created in InDesign into Acrobat 9 Pro or Pro Extended.
2. When the INSERT FLASH dialogue box appears, check SHOW ADVANCED OPTIONS. Click the RESOURCES tab. Click the ADD DIRECTORY button. Then, locate the asset folder (with flv/f4v video) associated with your SWF. Click OK.
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Hi,
Interesting application for the Fc output. I tried this out and it seems to work fine. Here are the steps I went through.
Created the fxp file and output the result
Created the pdf
From inside Acrobat Pro, I selected the Multimedia > Flash Tool and then chose the area in the document where I wanted to place the Fc output
I chose the Main.swf for placement
Acrobat Pro places the file
I saved the pdf and then opened the file in the browser
A play button appears and works when pressed
Not sure what would happen when placed on a server. Expect that you would need to keep all the files in the correct path/relationship to each other.
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Hi
I am having issues with embedded video in an interactive pdf (currently using Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional).
I have placed my media mp4 file in the pdf. I would like the video to have no border, so I proceeded to Multimedia Properties to edit the Appearance and set the Border Type to Invisible Rectangle. I also editted the Playback settings for the Rendition to keep the player open "Forever once activated." But every time I view pages in my interactive pdf with video there is still a thin black border surrounding the videos on initial play. If I have already viewed the video and come back to the page, the border dissapears.
Is there a way to ensure the thin black border/outline never appears in the pdf, even when first opening and viewing the file? Does this have to do with the Acrobat 8 in particular? Please let me know if you are also encountering this problem or have a solution.

Thank you so much for your help.
I am now working in Adobe Acrobat X Pro and have embedded the same video. The borders have disappeared.
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I am trying to put together an interactive PDF newsletter which has a video and a small slide show in it.
I am pretty new to this interactive element of indesign.
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I guess my issue is a presentational one mainly. Does this make any sense to anyone?!
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The way the PDF plays in Acrobat or Reader (this is what you're using, right?) is nothing InDesign has any control over.
So this really should be posted in the Acrobat forums. However, I don't believe there is any way you can modify this message, I'm afraid.

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I have read everything I can on this subject, and although it looks like I should be able to do it, I have so far been unable to make it work!
My dilemma: Creating an Interactive PDF from InDesign CS6, and I would like to include links to various streaming video's throughout the pdf. I would like them to run within the pdf (as a floating window), not pop out to the users web browser. I would like people to be able to play them, and then play them again if they need to listen again, aka, loop, I guess.
My attempts: I have created the Play button (to launch the video) in InD and when I exported it to PDF, I tried to set the video up there. I had minimal success with that route. I've also tried to do the whole thing directly in InD, including the link to the video, but had no success.
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First thing to say is that if you want the video to be truly "streaming" it has to be served from an Adobe Media Server platform using the RTMP/RTMPE protocol.
Assuming you have the URL of such a stream, it's easy to create the annotation in Acrobat Pro. If you want a floating window and a 'play' button, this is the simnplest workflow as there's no scripting involved - but you need to create an image that will act as the button.
Use the Add Video tool to draw a region on the page which will be where your 'play' button sits.
In the Insert Video dialog there's a "Select file or insert URL" field at the top - in there, type the full URL of your RTMP stream.
Click "show advanced options" and select "Create poster from file", then open your image of the play button.
Set the playback style to "floating window" and enter the dimensions of the stream.
Click OK.
If you already have the graphic for the play button as part of the PDF page itself, you can use a different workflow:
Use the Add Video tool to draw a very small region on the page which will be where the video poster sits (it has to exist but you want to hide it somewhere...).
Set the video options as before and click OK.
Use the Add Link tool to create a link region around the play button shape on your page.
Set the link to "Custom Action"
On the Actions tab, set the event to "Multimedia Operation (Acrobat 9 and later)", choose your video from the list, then in the lower area choose Play.

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Adobe Reader 10.3 does not yet support multimedia. None of the free readers I've found support it.
The best PDF reader I've found for the iPad is not free, $US9.99: PDF Expert. It supports multimedia.

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I'm having problems embedding video content in a pdf whilst retaining its quality. I have a presentation document at A3 size in indesign, on which there is a video on the page at 400x224mm (or 1138x638px if I change the unit of measurement.
We have been getting frustrating results when using a .mov with h264 codec where frames are dropping and the quality is very poor compared to the original. We have tried plenty of iterations, sizing the video to the exact proportions of the box it is placed in, larger HD sizes, using f4v, and altering bit rates, but with similar results.
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Thanks for your swift response Dave, really appreciate the help.
We looked into using a floating window, but the documents are for sending out to clients without knowing what size of screen it will be viewed on. This meant that in certain circumstances the poster frame would sit larger on the page than the video itself, creating a bit of an odd composition.
The widget sounds very useful, although I'm hesitant as it would need to be rolled out across a large number of computers in our organisation. So I'm keen to explore any other alternatives (if there are any!) first.
You mentioned:
"The default video player widget embedded into PDFs by Acrobat and InDesign always scales the content proportionally to fit the Flash Player viewport, so if the video is smaller than the actual pixel dimensions of the viewport it will be enlarged.'
Since we tried creating the video at the exact dimensions of the media box do you know why it is still rescaling it? I've heard there's a bit of a discrepancy between indesign and acrobat with pixels vs vectors, but have never quite got my head round it.
Let me know if you can advise further,
Thanks

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Hi wag5,
Thank you for posting on the forums, Acrobat would embed the video in the document but uses the relevant application to run it.
However, what is the actual behaviour, Please use the latest version of the Reader and then test the same.
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Hi,
I am attempting to export an interactive pdf with video and I have followed all the steps in the user guide.
However, While all other elements seem to function fine, when I attempt to click on the video file I am presented with a blank screen.
Initially I was using an mp4 file but I have converted this to f4v with no success. I have made sure to keep the original frame size.
The file plays fine in SWF preview.
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In Acrobat Reader, check the Multimedia Trust (legacy) setting. You can set the permissions of how the media players handle multimedia files. The settings are: Prompt, Always and Never. If "Never" is applied, then you would need to change to one of the other settings. Also, you have individual settings for Quicktime and Flash. And individual settings for trusted documents and other documents.
Keep in mind, these are application settings, and will only affect your app, not the document and how others will experience the multimedia files.

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