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Sound and video buttons

Sound and video buttons - InDesign Tutorial

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Sound and video buttons

- [Instructor] As we saw in the last movie, it's super easy to add a movie or sound to your document, because InDesign treats it like a graphic. I've saved the document from the last movie, and I've opened it as this new version two file, V2. But remember, I had hidden my sound file behind this button, so that it doesn't show up as ugly. Now I need a way to play it. The way to do that is with a button, a play button. To make a button, I'll go to my Window menu and choose Sample Buttons And Forms. I'll just grab a button out of here, like this green one, and drag it out onto my page. Now I need to give it an action in the Buttons And Forms panel. Right now it's set to Go To URL, and I don't want that. So, I'll click this little minus button to make that disappear. Instead, I'm going to give it an action called Sound, or if I were trying to control my video, I would choose Video instead. When you choose one of those, InDesign looks for all the sound files or videos that are on your…

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