Adobe Acrobat 9 PRO Extended - Manual (Page 348)

342 USING ACROBAT 9 PRO EXTENDED
Editing PDFs
Last updated 9/30/2011
Advanced multimedia options
To view advanced multimedia options when you insert video, sound, or interactive content, select Show Advanced
Options in the Insert dialog box.
You can also change these options after multimedia has been added to a PDF. Double-click the multimedia with the
Select Object tool (Tools > Advanced Editing > Select Object Tool).
Note: Video and sound quality settings can only be changed when a file is added to a PDF.
Different options are available in the dialog box depending on the format of the file.
Flash tab Displays when you insert SWF files.
• Flash Vars Flash developers can use the FlashVars field to add ActionScript™ variables for the selected file.
• Pass Context Menu Click to Flash Movie SWF file developers can select this option to replace the Acrobat context
menu with the context menu of the originating SWF file. When the user right-clicks the SWF file, the available options
are from the originating file.
Launch Settings tab Use these settings to determine how the media is started and stopped, where it is displayed, and
what is displayed when the media isn’t running.
• Activation Settings Select options to determine when the media is played and stopped. From the Playback Style
menu, select Play Content In Floating Window to have the video or interactive content run outside the page. Content
in a floating window enables users to read the page and view the video or application at the same time.
• Border Width Creates a black border around the video or interactive content. For sound, the border surrounds the
poster image.
• Poster Image To use an image that is not part of the file you are adding, select Create Poster From File. Click
Browse to find the image you want to be displayed when the video, sound, or interactive content is not activated.
Resources tab Use this tab to list all files that are required to run a SWF file. When a file is displayed in the list of added
files, you can click it to set the file properties.
• Properties When you click a filename in the Resources list, the full filename (including the path) is displayed in the
Name field. You can rename the resources to ensure that scripts run properly.
Quality tab These options are only available when you add files. Quality settings are not available for FLV files and
H.264-compliant files (unless you cleared the Maintain Original H.264 Encoding check box when you added the file).
• Video Quality Select a setting that provides good image quality at an acceptable file size. Higher kbps (kilobits per
second) generally results in better quality video, unless the originating video is of low quality. Higher video quality also
results in larger file size.
• Deinterlace Interlacing is used for TV output and can create some distortion (wavy or jagged horizontal lines) in
media that is transferred to a computer. Select Deinterlace to help improve image quality in video that was originally
created for TV.
• Resize Video Use this option to resize video to reduce or enlarge the video by a percentage of the original file or by
a specified pixel dimension.
• Respect Aspect Ratio When resizing a video, select this option to prevent image distortion.
• Encode Audio Clear this check box if you want to add video without the sound.
• Audio Quality Determines how good the sound is. Many sound files are compressed; select a sound quality that is
high enough without overly increasing file size.