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Use a miniature version of the movie poster to create an icon for the movie. The movie
can play in a separate window. You can create the icon by adjusting the movie bound-
aries to less than full size, and then selecting Display Poster. The Use Floating Window
option sets the movie to play in a separate window.
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Use a play action other than Play Once Then Stop when a controller bar is used with a
clip. Selecting the controller bar stops the clip. Double-clicking inside the movie frame
starts it playing again.
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Use movie and sound files that are located on your hard disk or on a CD with your PDF
files. This ensures optimum performance. If you link your PDF documents to movie or
sound files residing across a network or on the World Wide Web, performance
decreases.
Playing movies and sound clips
Before you can play movies or sounds, your computer must have the appropriate
hardware and software installed. See
“Integrating media clips into PDFs” on page 176
for
information on the movie and sound file formats for Windows and Mac OS. See your
system’s documentation for more information.You must also have the necessary software
installed on your system:
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Apple QuickTime 2.5 or later, or Microsoft Video (Windows).
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Apple QuickTime 2.5 or later (Mac OS).
Note:
QuickTime 4.0 or later is recommended. QuickTime 5.0 or later is required for
working with MPEG files.
To play a movie or sound clip:
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Select the hand tool
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Move the cursor over a movie or sound clip, and the cursor changes to a filmstrip.
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Click to begin playing the clip.
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Click again to stop playing, or press Escape.
Using actions for special effects
Acrobat allows you to add special effects to PDF documents. You can specify that a
particular action will occur when a bookmark, link, or form field is selected, or when a
page or form is viewed. For example, you can use links and bookmarks to jump to different
locations in a document, but you can also use them to play movies and sound clips,
execute commands from a menu, or other actions. Page actions are another way of
activating special effects in a PDF document. For example, you can specify a movie or
sound clip to play when a page is opened or closed.