Inserting Movies And Legacy Versions - Adobe ACROBAT 9 HOW-TOS Manual

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inserting Movies
and Legacy Versions
Prior to Acrobat 9, movies were embedded in different movie file types,
such as MOV and AVI formats. In Acrobat 9, movies are generally stored as
a FLV movie, since Acrobat 9 and Adobe Reader 9 include an integrated
Flash Player.
Follow these steps to add a movie to a PDF file:
1. Click the Video tool
on the page to open the Insert Video dialog.
2. Click Choose to locate and select the movie file. A preview is loaded
into the dialog (Figure 97a).
3. Drag the endpoints on the slider below the preview to establish a trim
length. Display the frame you want to use as a poster for the movie,
and click Set Poster Image from Current Frame.
4. Click the Show Advanced Options check box to display a set of
four tabs in the dialog and make your choices from the Launch
Settings, Controls, and Video options, described in the previous two
techniques.
Inserting a Movie also includes a Quality tab, where you can specify
the video and audio quality, as well as resizing options.
5. Click OK to close the dialog. The movie is converted to FLV format and
embedded in the document.
on the Multimedia toolbar, and double-click
Figure 97a
file to convert to FLV and
embed in your document.
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Inserting Movies and Legacy Versions

Using Multiple Movie
Versions
Follow these steps to add
multiple movie renditions to
your document:
1. Double-click the movie
2. You'll see the Annotation
3. Select an action from the
Select a movie
4. Click Add Rendition, and
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with the Video tool to
open the Multimedia
Properties dialog,
displaying the Settings
tab.
Title, a name assigned by
Acrobat to identify the
object; for accessibility
purposes, type a descrip-
tion for an alternate text
tag.
List Renditions for Event
pop-up menu, or leave
the default Mouse Up
action.
then select a location:
•
Using a File to locate
and select another
movie version
•
Using a URL, and then
typing the URL in the
resulting field
•
By Copying An
Existing Rendition, to
select the rendition
you want to copy
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