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Understanding media formats

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Understanding media formats

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- [Instructor] Since InDesign is primarily a page layout tool, with its origins in print production, you might be surprised to know that it has offered support for placing audio and video all the way back to the CS2 days. And now you can export InDesign files as PDFs, ePubs and Publish Online documents, with embedded or streaming video and audio. So, let's take a look at the details of InDesign's media support and some best practices. The first thing to know when it comes to working with media in InDesign, is which formats are supported for placing and output. When it comes to putting audio into your InDesign documents, you should use the MP3 format. If you have audio in other formats, you can use tools like iTunes on Mac or Windows, to convert it to MP3. For video, you can place files in Flash Video format, and SWF files. As well as H.264 encoded files. Of those formats, the recommended best practice is to use the H.264 encoded files, because they're fully supported within InDesign…

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