From the course: InDesign Secrets
133 Creating nav points in a movie - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign Secrets
133 Creating nav points in a movie
When you're showing a video in an interactive document, like an interactive SWF or PDF, often you want to point people's attention to specific points in the video. Like, if you had an illustration or a chart, you might want to drag out call outs, right? With a little line saying, look at this part and look at this part. Well, it's kind of awkward in a video to say, go to time code oh, two, nine, three and take a look at xyz. Instead what you can do is create buttons that jump people to those time codes. Those are called nav points and you can do this in Indesign. Let's look at the final effect here and then we'll see how we built this in InDesign. This is a video that I took of my two new dogs that I just rescued, of them play fighting on the deck. What I want to show you is Bella, that's Bella, coon hound, where she gets the upper paw. And Barkley, that's the little terrier mix, Barkley dominates. And if I just play the video. It takes a while to get to those points. So I'm going to stop, rewind, and this time I can just say, let's jump to where Bella gets the upper paw. There we go. And now, let's jump to when Barkley dominates. Boom, there he is. Course I'm doing a silly little example, here. But if you're doing a video that has chapters or sections, you'd might want to create little buttons or icons that will help people jump to those specific chapters or sections in a single video. So how was this done? Let's jump back into InDesign. I placed the video, as usual. You just choose File, Place. Place it right in here. And then, in the media panel, it shows a preview of the video. And I chose a poster image from the current frame. And then what you need to do is you need to create nav points. And you do that right here, so you scrub through the video until you get to the point where you want people to jump to. So I'm going through here looking for the part where Bella's paw is on top of Barkley. And it's com, there it is, that's, that's close enough. And then when you get there, let me detach this from here, in the Navigation Points area, you click plus. And it adds a point there, and I'll just call this Bella paw because we're going to refer to this in a bit. And you can continue adding nav points that way, let me scrub forward, and see if I can find the part where Barkley's on top, that's close enough right there. And I'll just click the plus symbol, and call it Barkley. And then for controller, you know, while you're here, you want to put some sort of controller so people can play and pause and rewind the video. I'm just going to choose skin over all, which is the one I have in the PDF example. So we have our nav points, now we just need a way for people to get to those nav points, and we do that with buttons. Now I just drag these buttons right out of the button library, if you change to the workspace for interactive for PDF you can grab those. If you dragged and dropped them, and they're already ready to go with rollover states, then you select one of these buttons and you open up the Buttons and Forms panel. Every button from that library has a default action that's go to page. And we don't want this to go to any page. So we're going to delete that action. That's for sure, and instead we're going to add the action that has to do with video. Now if you look through here for one that says go to nav point, you're not going to find one. Look for just the word Video. Then after you get to Video, you can see down here under Options what you can do. So you can have a button that plays, one that stops, one that resumes. But we want to play from a navigation point. So choose that as the option and then choose one of the navigation points you selected. See, pretty simple. Let's do the same thing for Barkley dominates. Don't forget to delete this action. If you forget, you're going to get an error in the pdf. It's going to say, sorry there is no such page. So I'll delete that. And when I add the action video. Go to nav point. This one would be Barkley. And that's about it, that's all you've got to do. So here's the final result. That looks just about the same. Everything has been set up. Then you export to pdf. Of course you want to export to interactive pdf. I just command or control e, which is export. You want to choose Adobe PDF Interactive. Let's put this on the desktop. And I'll say two. And it's only a one page document, but just to be safe I always say pages. And usually all of the defaults are fine. You click okay. And it opens up in Acrobat. I'll put fit in window, lets give it a go. I'll click the green button for we want to jump to where Bella get's the upper paw. There we go. And then jump to where Barkley dominates. That's it. Very easy to create navigation points and then export them to an interactive PDF or SWF file.
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229 Batch converting ID files to current version with the Book panel6m 9s
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230 Getting around InDesign limitations6m 46s
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231 Creating better callout lines with effects and object styles5m 47s
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232 Swapping column and row information in tables6m 9s
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233 Making bigger text link targets4m 52s
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161 Keeping page numbers on top of master items3m 55s
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162 Adding automatic currency symbols in a table cell or before text3m 50s
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163 Make a pop-up footnote for your ebook3m 48s
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164 Deleting tabs at the beginning of paragraphs and applying a paragraph style3m 10s
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165 Five InDesign Presentation tips6m 28s
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111 Packaging images on the pasteboard3m 32s
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112 Automatically updating figure references for books6m 9s
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113 Adding Tool Tips to your form fields in InDesign3m 21s
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114 Setting poetry, flush left, center on longest line3m 54s
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115 Use bookmarks to navigate long documents in production4m 57s
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107 Using the same keyboard shortcut for two different commands with the Context feature5m 22s
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108 Making a text highlighter3m 33s
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109 Updating an interactive PDF without losing work done in Acrobat5m 30s
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110 Adding custom text at the beginning of each line automatically4m
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089 Three great Object Styles for any designer8m 1s
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090 Choosing alpha channel image transparency2m 25s
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091 Adding and reading metadata for InDesign files3m 25s
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092 Adding ALT tags to your images6m 59s
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093 How to Place & Link a text frame's text but not its formatting7m 4s
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094 Setting the baseline position of a caption2m 39s
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051 Five things that should be in every new file5m 19s
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052 Forcing EPUB page breaks with invisible objects6m 21s
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053 Understanding component information6m 39s
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054 Creating running heads using section markers4m 16s
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055 Making a font with InDesign using the IndyFont script5m 20s
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056 Finding where that color is used7m 17s
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047 Specifying an exact amount of space between objects5m 17s
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048 Fixing last lines that are too short8m 16s
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049 Creating web graphics from your InDesign artwork7m 20s
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050 Using “No Language” to suppress unwanted hyphenation, spell-checking, and smart quotes2m 48s
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037 Updating a linked table without losing formatting5m 18s
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038 Creating electronic sticky notes4m 49s
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039 Moving master page items to the top layer for visibility2m 48s
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040 Five guide tricks that will impress your coworkers6m 18s
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041 Letting InDesign add the diacritics4m 21s
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042 Using single-cell table cells for custom paragraph formatting6m 2s
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027 Creating running heads using variables5m 1s
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028 Live Caption tips and tricks8m 3s
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029 Making professional drop caps10m 37s
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030 Making two-state buttons in interactive documents5m 5s
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008 Some great tips and tricks for the Swatches panel9m 40s
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