how to "embed" videos in PDFs?

Here's a link to an older thread about it, check out Josh Anderson's link to the video he created.

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...-into-pdf.html

If you have Adobe Acrobat Pro (not Acrobat Reader, but Acrobat Pro) or Adobe Indesign, this is actually pretty simple.

First, you can embed videos into PDFs. I think you need Acrobat Pro Extended. Not sure, but that's what I use but am not sure how the other versions work.

The second thing is calling YT videos. You can't actually do that by embedding in Word then converting to PDF. You need to use Acrobat link tool. That's how I do it anyway. Generally, I put a video image in the doc, make the PDF, then use the tool to make a link to the YT video.

If I have misunderstood what you meant, let me know.

Try explaining this to your mother.

She just wrote a nice report in WORD, and there's a video on YouTube she wants to be able to put there so when people click the image in the document, the video plays. Exactly the same thing that happens if you "embed" a video in a post here.

You hooked her up with a free copy of PDF995 that lets her convert her Word documents into PDF files. (Or say she's just using Open Office instead of Word.)

Your mom does not have a copy of Acrobat, or even Acrobat Pro. Suggesting that she needs to spend upward of a thousand bucks to put a clickable video in her PDF file that works the same way it does on a web page is simply idiotic.

She shows you web page after web page that have YouTube videos embedded on them, and asks if they all require Acrobat Pro to work. You say, "Of course not, mom! You just paste the embed code from YouTube into the web page and it show up that way."

"So how do I make that work in a Word document that still works when I convert it to a PDF file using PDF995?"

"So how do I make that work in a Word document that still works when I convert it to a PDF file using PDF995?"



You can't. You need a wrench to loosen a nut, not a corkscrew. PDF995 is the wrong tool.

Contributors, Thank you! I didn't know how to do this. Thanks thread starter, and contributors.

Awesome.

Adobe Apollo will marry PDF and Flash formats but the technology is still in early stages.

But Adobe has another tool called Acrobat that allows you embed any SWF Flash file in a PDF document without requiring Apollo.

To add movies, animations, and sounds to your PDF presentation, just open the Advanced Editing toolbar in Adobe Acrobat and choose the object you wish to add.

The process is similar for adding audio files (Quicktimie MOV, WAV, MP3) to PDF mulitimedia documents. Select the Sound tool and draw an area anywhere on the PDF page where you have to embed the sound file.

You can do this using Open Office. Simply upload the video anywhere like YouTube and then add a hyperlink wherever you want to, but instead of using text in the hyperlink, you select the Button option. When you click the button in the pdf it will go to the url of the video in your browser.

Print the PDF out and tape it to a TV.

No need to spend any money on high end products when it can be done for FREE

Thanks, but nobody is really addressing the question that THEIR mom would be asking. (My mom died in 2000, but she'd probably be asking pretty much the same question.)

Here's an embed code from the video posted on YouTube a few replies above:

Here's anther embed code option for the same video:

Your mom, not being the least bit tech-savvy, has this video on her Wordpress blog. She got it there by pasting one of the above code snippets into something in the blog.

Now she simply wants to know how to paste this exact same code into a Word document (and similar codes for other videos) that will display the video as it appears a few posts above, rather than a bunch of gibberish. And when she saves the Word document as a PDF file, she wants it to look and act the same as if it was pasted here or into a Wordpress blog.

She doesn't want a "link" or a "button" that says "Click here". She's not about to spend a grand on some ridiculous software package designed for professional publishers. She simply wants to make a document where the embedded videos look the same as they do in her blog.

[sorry I have no idea how to embed a video here so it shows up.]

It's fine if someone clicks on the image and it opens the video somewhere else (ie., in a browser window), although she thinks it would be nice if it played it right in the page itself.

She doesn't understand why she can't paste the same code into the document that she puts here or in her blog to add a video to her content.

-David

The simple answer. It is impossible to embed a video like you can here on the forum or on a web page. For the embed code to work, it relies on html code which is non-existent in a word document (except for the occasional hyperlink).

I was a little confused at who was actually needs this information, but as I said you can use ghostscript, plus, video

To do what you want to do, it is still time consuming for the novice, if that is who the consumer is here, but it is doable, hope this helps,