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placing a video from URL - Youtube

Apr 11, 2012 3:01 PM

Categories: Windows Tags: #pdf #youtube #url #indesign_cs5.5

Youtube converts videos to MPEG-4 H.264 format which is suppose to be supported for the placing a video from url tool in InDesign CS5.5.

Does anyone knwo why this does not work? I nwo that it can be done by creating a flash player, but not interested in the extra work.

8653 Views 3 Replies Latest reply: Dave Merchant, Apr 12, 2012 3:38 AM

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1. Dave Merchant,

Apr 11, 2012 9:11 PM in reply to EL371

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You cannot link directly to the video stream on YouTube - the URLs point to an HTML fragment which in turn loads an instance of their player widget, so InDesign doesn't see it as a valid rich media format.

The only legal way to play YT-hosted videos within a non-HTML document is to implement their public API within your own Flash project, and embed the SWF as a rich media object. Joel Geraci wrote a SWF wrapper for use in PDF files which does this.

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2. Bernd Alheit,

Apr 12, 2012 12:23 AM in reply to EL371

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You may try the forum for InDesign.

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3. Dave Merchant,

Apr 12, 2012 3:38 AM in reply to Bernd Alheit

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Actually it's better here - the post was tagged 'pdf' and embedding this type of content into a document is best done in Acrobat after the file is exported, rather than in InDesign.

Bernd Alheit wrote:

You may try the forum for InDesign.

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