| You can also set the poster options for the movie. This allows you to set an image that fills the space in the frame for the movie clip. To set the movie poster options: 1. | In the Movie Options dialog box, choose one of the following from the Poster menu :
Use the Poster menu to choose the image that is displayed on the static page. None sets no poster for the movie. Standard uses the image from the StandardMoviePoster.jpg file that Adobe provides with InDesign. Default Poster uses the poster image that was created when the movie was edited. Choose Image as Poster lets you click the Browse button to choose an image to use as the poster. Choose Movie Frame as Poster opens a dialog box that lets you advance through the movie to choose the poster . When this option is chosen, the listing Frame from Movie is checked in the menu.
Use the Choose Movie Frame as Poster dialog box to choose the frame you want to add as the movie poster. | You can also set the options for how often the movie plays. To set the play options for the movie: You can also set the rest of the options for how the movie plays .
The settings at the bottom of the Movie Options dialog box that control how the movie plays. To set the movie display options: 1. | Check Play on Page Turn to have the movie automatically play when the page is opened. TIP A movie or sound clip may take a moment to load before it starts playing. TIP The automatic page turn isn't the only way to play movies. A movie can be played by clicking the movie object in the PDF page. Also, you can create button behaviors that play movies. | 2. | Check Show Controller During Play to display the user controls that let you start, stop, rewind, forward, and change the sound of the movie .
The Controller is displayed at the bottom of the movie. | 3. | Check Floating Window to display the movie in a separate window that appears above the Acrobat document. | 4. | If you check Floating Window, use the Size menu to set the dimensions of the movie window .
Use the Size menu to set the size of a movie that plays in a floating window. TIP The size options for a floating window movie are listed in multiples of the original movie size. 1/2x means one-half times the size of the original. 3x means three times the size of the original. Max means the maximum size to fit the monitor. TIP A movie that is nonfloating is displayed at the size that it was originally created. | 5. | If you check Floating Window, use the Position menu to set where the movie plays in relation to the Acrobat document .
Use the Position menu to choose where a movie that plays in a floating window is displayed. | |