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Click a location on the page to place the movie. Where you click specifies the center of
the movie frame. The play area is the exact size of the movie frame.
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In the Movie Properties dialog box, either navigate to a movie file, or enter a remote
URL for the movie.
4
In the Movie Properties dialog box, enter a name for the file in the Title text box. By
default, the name of the movie file appears as the title.
5
Select Show Controller if you want to display a controller bar at the bottom of the play
area.
6
Select a Mode option from the pop-up menu to determine the play action of the movie
clip. You can have the movie play once then stop, play once and stay open, play
repeatedly, or play forward and then backward repeatedly.
When you choose Play Once Then Stop, selecting the clip or the controller bar stops the
movie when it is playing. Double-clicking inside the movie frame starts the clip playing
again. When you choose Play Once And Stay Open and set the default to floating window,
the movie plays until the viewer presses the Escape key.
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To create a floating clip, select Use Floating Window. This specifies that the movie plays
in a separate window. Then specify the dimensions, including scale factors, of the floating
window in the pop-up menu.
8
Select Movie Poster to show the first frame in the clip as a still image when the movie is
not playing. You can choose to display the poster in the document, or retrieve it directly
from the movie file. If you are displaying the poster, choose the number of colors from the
pop-up menu. Choose 256 colors to display 8-bit color images; choose Millions Of Colors
to display 32-bit color images.
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Specify the appearance of the border for the play area:
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For a visible border, choose a Width value of Thin, Medium, or Thick, and the desired
style and color options.
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For no border around the unselected play area, choose Invisible for the Width value.
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For information on how to specify a custom color, see
“Setting the custom color option”
on page 138
.
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Click OK. Any further movie files that are added default to this file’s properties.
Note:
When the movie tool is selected, the borders around all play areas are highlighted,
even those with invisible borders. The highlight disappears when the movie tool is no
longer active.
To edit movie clip properties:
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Select the movie tool
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Select a movie icon to make it active, and choose Edit > Properties. Set the options in
the Movie Properties dialog box for the selected movie and all subsequent movie clips.
3
Click OK.
4
Move or resize the movie clip in the following ways:
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Move the clip by dragging its icon to a new location on the page.
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Resize the clip by dragging one of the corners of the movie frame until it is the desired
size. This is not recommended, as it distorts the image.