Enhancing Documents With Video, Audio, and Links

Enhancing Documents With Video, Audio, and Links

The two “cursor” To add new video Create a options region on the let Select an MPEG 4 buttons Choose you the switch between editing element, first click page where the video file and format video file to Add for video, using elements such as video, Video... will appear. add, and click and click OK. Open and position of those links. When the following button, Cursor behaves normally , audio, and links.

is selected, then the mouse cursor behaves in the same way it would in the Web Document Interface – that is, it activates the links which have been added to the document. The final button, View Fullscreen , toggles between a full screen view of the document, and one which is reduced in size to allow for surrounding palettes.

Enhancing Documents with Video, Audio, and Links

You can add, edit, and remove elements to existing pages which provide video, audio, and clickable links. To perform any of these tasks, click the button Cursor selects overlaid controls , which allows you to manipulate those elements. (The adjacent button, Cur- sor behaves normally lets you test and use these elements as they will appear in a normal browser.)

Adding Video to documents

To add a new video to a page, click the Add Video... button, and then click and drag to create a region on the page where the video element will reside. When you release the mouse button, the Se- lect Video File window opens, where you can select the video file you wish to add to the page. Video files must be in MPEG 4 format, and must have the file- name extension .mp4 in order for you to select the file for inclusion. After you select the file and click

Open , the Edit Video window appears, where you can choose the following options: • Radio buttons let you select whether to keep the current poster image, not use one, or select a new one. A poster image is a still image which ap- pears in the space occupied by the video, and represents the video’s contents.

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