Video in PDF issue - Help!

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  • Ranger

    I'm making a full screen PDF presentation with MP4 video in it and having a couple of issues with the PDF afterwards. When you get to the page with the video on the keyboard left/right arrow navigation stops working. You can progress with the mouse as long as the video is not full screen i.e. as long as you have some area to right/left click on which is not the video area. Also (and this is the biggie) there is a stitching type line left on the following page in the place of where the video was on the previous page.

    So far everything has been compiled in InDesign and exported from there. We're viewing on acrobat 9 and above. The video files are linked fine to the PDF and are H.264.

    Has anyone had this issue when putting video in a PDF?

  • Ranger0

    Incase anyone searches this in the future - I think I have found a work around which has solved the above but it's a pretty rubbish workflow.

    It was feeling like an old school transparency problem with the PDF so I had to export the PDF from InDesign again but not using interactive settings. Export as a print doc so you get extra options and export at the highest PDF version option. The video won't play when you open in Acrobat. You have to insert the video from within Acrobat using the multimedia tool. This seems to solve every issue I had.

    I swear I had tried this earlier but when I tried later on another machine it worked so good luck if you ever have this issue in the future.

  • doesnotexist0

    what?

    • i think my work around would be to link to youtube.doesnotexist