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1. Re: Link to videos not on the web?
BobLevine Aug 20, 2010 9:46 AM (in response to bspence11)First, I'd ask WHY you need to do it this way?
Do you have an intranet? If so, I'd be way more inclined to handle it that way.
SWF from CS4 was very primitive. Dramatically improved in CS5 but file sizes are huge.
Bob
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2. Re: Link to videos not on the web?
bspence11 Aug 20, 2010 10:50 AM (in response to BobLevine)Thanks for your help!
Basically, we want something that doesn't take a long time to download for the end user. PDFs with video get too big and I can't host the SWF file on the web.
We create some videos that go in powerpoint presentations and when a new gets made, I'd like to include it in the next newsletter. These videos aren't hosted on the web, and even if they were, our internet is just too slow to make that a good option. If I could just keep everything on our local network shared drive, it would be faster and I wouldn't need to worry about file size when it comes to embedding the video in a pdf.
We have something like an intranet, it's Microsoft sharepoint services. Videos don't work too well with it and it's not like a normal web experience, if that makes sense. I can't just make my own website on it. I could put HTML files on our local shared drive and have people open that in their web browser, which is why I was hoping that could be doable (for example, PowerPoint doesn't let you embed videos, but it will let you link to a file anywhere, not just the web like InDesign). The problem is when I try the "Verify URL and Movie Size" button, it won't work.
One of the editors of this newsletter saw a SWF interactive document on the web and wants us to use those page curls. I hate to tell him it's either page curls or embedded video. Is it possible to do page curl transitions and play video in a SWF file? If I have to learn Flash, so be it.
I'm looking for other solutions to this. If there's a better way, I'm all ears.


