[Aaron Kiersky]

Hi Alasdair,

First of all, this is a pretty old thread you dug up, and your question doesn’t really even relate to the original question. So I would post the same question in the InDesign forum.

That said, to answer your question, It sounds like if you want to create a simulated interface After Effects is a much better option to give it the life of an interactive application. InDesign does have options to add video to pages, but I’m not sure it is going to work the way you are wanting.

From my experience videos in indesign work similarly to on ios devices, you get a poster frame, click play, then it plays on the top layer, over other objects.

But, new features are added all the time, and I have never attempted what you are trying. A quick google search came up with these two articles that may be helpful:
https://indesignsecrets.com/how-to-get-animations-to-work-in-pdf-working-title.php
and
https://indesignsecrets.com/bringing-animation-from-indesign-cs5-into-a-pdf-with-the-help-of-a-little-script.php

good luck!
ak

[Aaron Kiersky]

ha ha ha, it sounds like you have practiced that a few times dave!

thanks,
ak

[Aaron Kiersky]

Hey dave,
thanks for the quick response. no dice on the importing .indd files to ae, I can do a pdf, but that imports as a single layer file, not allowing me to get at the individual elements. Even if I can’t directly import the document, it seems like I should be able to copy and paste from one to the other.

Software creation is a crazy beast I know, but it seems like if some of adobe’s programs work so well together, why is basic copy and pasting of vector art not a global standard?

I realize that id and ai are not designed for motion, try and tell that to the designers that hand off files to me. 🙂

thanks again,
ak

[Aaron Kiersky]

with the external raid boxes, many say they work with firewire 800, but it looks like the next step up is to a raid enclosure and a raid pci card for my mac pro. would this be the best option overall, or would the 800 work well enough?

just to give some perspective, we mostly output sd, but much of the footage is hd,(what our client sends us) I can’t imagine having more than two of the hd streams playing at the same time (for transitions, or multiclips).

I am looking at the G-tech G-RAID3 with eSata and firewire800, when connected with eSata it gets 200 MB/second, would this suffice? seems to be a good option.

thanks!
ak

[Aaron Kiersky]

Thanks David,

just the answer I was looking for.
it’s such a pretty drive though, I hate to give it back, the new LaCie designed by Neil Poulton.

ak

[Aaron Kiersky]

Hi Daniel,

Thanks for the reply, Ive got quicktime pro Version 7.6.4, ‘save as’ just gives me the option to save as a self contained or reference movie, no options to change streaming options. I know export has the option, but then it would re-compress the video, which I don’t want.

thanks,
ak

[Aaron Kiersky]

Best bet would be not to export directly to avi, go for “animation” compression out of after effects, then use a 3rd party app such as quicktime or windows media converter to compress to the avi.

as a side note, why avi? it is a pretty old format, and creates large files for the quality. go for h264.

[Aaron Kiersky]

Good idea about the character palate, but it looks like AE7 doesn’t support the insert option from there. I am just trying to use the outline version, but then I don’t get the great text animation abilities. just have to upgrade to get the function I need.

Funny how ligatures have been in every other program of adobe’s for quite some time now, I remember using them back in the pagemaker days…. good times…

[Aaron Kiersky]

Hey steve,

thanks for the response, i know that the h264 is not for editing, it is what I was given and I was trying to just make my quick edits and be done with it. im not sure if my edit to my previous post went through, I did convert them to an Animation .mov file to edit with, but to no avail. the strange part is, I can import other clips, some h264 some various lossless formats, and they all work fine.

so it seems to be isolated to the one video clip, I ended up just moving to the workstation the clips were captured on and doing my editing there.

sorry again for the repost, the posts I found dealing with the same issue were mostly on export, not just viewing the file.

thanks!
ak

[Aaron Kiersky]

I found an online converter that actually works pretty well, no settings for compression and whatnot, but it adds the critical .wmv extension and seems to work!

https://www.zamzar.com/

better than paying…