Video not supported on a spread? uncheck facing pages?

[Kolby77]

In indesign CS6 I am trying to embed a youtube video and I keep getting this error message, saying its not supported with facing pages? Anyone have an idea why I keep getting this error message?

[Steve Werner]

It's not possible to embed a YouTube video into an InDesign CS6 file. It's not a supported format.

As to why you're getting the message, give us a screen capture of the pages showing in the Pages panel. That's not an error message I'm familiar with.

[Kolby77]

Hey Steve thanks for responding, Not supported? DO you have a way to put a youtube video then into my file? I did find a few different ways but nothing really has fully worked for me yet.

[Steve Werner]

I've never heard of a way of streaming a YouTube video from an InDesign when saved in any format.

[Kolby77]

hmm
Tips & Techniques: How to add YouTube streaming video to a DPS article (part 2)

[Kolby77]

Above link is what I am attempting to do

[BobLevine]

That’s for DPS which is essentially a legacy format and does not support facing pages. It will also work for fixed layout epub but InDesign CS6 has no support for that.

So, the real important question is, what exactly are you trying to do?

[Kolby77]

oooh ok. thanks again for your help.

I have an editor's letter for a emag for a photographer, he has a 30 sec youtube on location, he wants to embed it into his page. Is this possible? Final file save will be interactive pdf.

[BobLevine]

I’ll ask again. What are you trying to do? Embedding in a page is not an answer. We know that part already.

What’s the end target format?

[Kolby77]

So you are saying this can't be done? My end result file will be saved interactive PDF. I just want to know how to apply his youtube video into his document.

[BobLevine]

AFAIK, it won’t work in PDF.

[Kolby77]

So I can't do this. I don't get it.
Tips & Techniques: How to add YouTube streaming video to a DPS article (part 1)

[BobLevine]

What don’t you get? That is for DPS output only.

DPS is not PDF.

[Kolby77]

ok I guess I understand now, thank you for your help.

[BobLevine]

Good luck. You should be aware that CS6 is very limited as far as choices go for interactive output.

CC has more choices such as fixed layout epub and publish online. Just something to consider.