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Linking to video on a web server

Linking to video on a web server - InDesign Tutorial

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Linking to video on a web server

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- [Instructor] The biggest problem with video files is their file size, which typically ranges from pretty big to totally huge. And if you place a 50 megabyte video file into your InDesign document, and then export, then the PDF gets 50 megabytes larger. Well, maybe that's okay with you, but there is another way. Instead of placing the video inside InDesign, you could place it on a web server, and then link to it in InDesign. Then, when you export a PDF, your PDF just links to it, and the video is streamed across the web, into the PDF, though it plays as though it were embedded. Linking to a video is easy. You just make a graphic frame anywhere on your page, like this one. In this case, I've opened up my original interactive document, from the exercise files folder. Now, once you have a graphic frame selected, all you need to do is open your Media panel. I have mine in my dock, down here. Now, there are several buttons way down in the bottom right corner of the Media panel. If I click…

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