Acrobatusers Tech Talk July 2010: Advanced Video in Acrobat 9 Pro
This page links to the sites and downloads mentioned in Dave Merchant's Tech Talk about advanced video techniques in Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro.
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Notes
Info on the Javascript functions responsible for control of Rich Media Annotations can be found in the API documentation, which is part of the
Software Development Kit (SDK) - you can either download it in full or view the documentation online using the links below.
To move a Rich Media Annotation onto a PDF layer (an Optional Content Group) requires a plugin, as Acrobat does not support layer manipulation.
Premium subscribers to PDFScripting.com get a plugin which can do this called the OCG (Layers) Tool, and it's also possible to write your own using the
SDK and Visual C++. We will be adding a tutorial to the AUC Learning
Center soon that shows how to write code snippets using Visual C++ 2010 Express and the Acrobat 9 SDK.
For questions and help relating to this Tech Talk, please post your messages to the Rich Media forum at AcrobatUsers.com.
Links
- Acrobat Developer Community - Acrobat 9.1 SDK
- Acrobat 9.1 SDK documents online
- Acrobat Developer Community - Acrobat 9 Flash security policy
- Commenting on videos - Adobe TV
- Adobe Flash Media Interactive Server - free developer edition for Red Hat Linux or Windows Server
Extended SWF Players
Behind the scenes of the YouTube widget is the Google YouTube API. This is a free closed-source SWF interface between your own Flash projects and the YouTube streaming servers, and handles the security and bandwidth negotiation. Any player widget that is serving content to a document other than a web page is required to use the API, and must download it "live" from YouTube each time they connect, in order to comply with the EULA.
Footage
If you don't produce your own videos and want some free material to experiment with, look no further than the moving images collection at archive.org - which delivers most content in MP4 format. We cannot provide a link to a legal free RTMP stream that you can embed into a PDF, but a bit of persistent Googling will turn up a few open servers to experiment with, provided you don't distribute the resulting documents.
The closed-caption material used in the tech talk is available from these links. Right-click and choose Save Link As:
