Adobe ACROBAT 3D Manual page 528

Adding movie clips
When the Acrobat 6 Compatible Media option is selected, you can embed media files in a
PDF document, or you can create a link to them. You can also allow for different
renditions of a movie to be played, depending on the user's settings. For example, you
may want to allow a low-resolution movie to be shown if the user has a slow Internet
connection, or you may want to allow a different player to be used if the default player
isn't available to the user.
Note: If an alert message tells you that no media handler is available, you must install a
media player, such as QuickTime, before you can add media clips to the PDF document.
To add a movie clip:
1. To select the Movie tool
Choose Tools > Advanced Editing > Movie Tool.
Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) the toolbar, and then choose Advanced
Editing. Select the Movie tool from the Advanced Editing toolbar.
2. Drag or double-click to select the area on the page where you want the movie to appear.
The play area is the exact size of the movie frame (if Acrobat can read the media clip's
dimensions). The Add Movie dialog box appears.
3. Select Acrobat 6 Compatible Media if you want access to all movie options, or select
Acrobat 5 (And Earlier) Compatible Media if you want your media clip to be available to
users who have not yet upgraded from version 5.0 or earlier of Acrobat or Acrobat Reader.
Note: To embed media clips, assign different renditions, create a poster from a separate
file, and specify the content type, you must select Acrobat 6 Compatible Media. These
options are not available when you select the Acrobat 5 Compatible Media option.
4. To specify the movie clip, type the path or URL address in the Location box, or click
Browse (Windows) or Choose (Mac OS) and double-click the movie file.
5. For Acrobat 6.0-compatible movie clips, do the following:
Specify the content type to let Acrobat know which media player to use. In general, you
should use the content type selected by default. Specifying the wrong content type may
cause difficulties during playback.
Select Embed Content In Document if you want the movie file to be included in the PDF
document. If you deselect this option, the document includes only a link to the external
movie file. If you don't embed the file, make sure that you use the correct file name and
relative path location for the movie clip when you distribute the PDF document.
6. Select Snap To Content Proportions to maintain the movie's original size when it plays.
7. To select a movie poster, which determines the appearance of the play area when the
movie isn't playing, do one of the following, and then click OK:
Select Use No Poster to leave the background of the movie's play area invisible.
Select Retrieve Poster From Movie to show the first frame in the clip as a still image when
the movie is not playing.
Select Create Poster From File to select a different image to use as the poster. Click
Browse, and then double-click the file.
To move, delete, or resize the movie:
1. Using the Movie tool
area to select it.
2. Do any of the following:
Move the clip by dragging its icon to a new location on the page.
Delete the clip by selecting it and pressing Backspace or Delete.
Resize the clip by dragging one of the corners of the frame until it is the desired size. Hold
down Shift to prevent the play area from becoming skewed.
Note: When the Movie tool is selected, the borders around all play areas are highlighted,
even those with invisible borders. The highlight disappears when the tool is no longer
active.
, do one of the following:
, the Sound tool , or the Select Object tool , click the play