Place MP4 Video in FrameMaker
Editor’s note: As of April 2021, the embed feature seems broken in FrameMaker. Instead of embedding directly, host your video on YouTube or Vimeo, and use the Insert>Multimedia>Online Video option instead. While this will require an internet connection to work, it will result in a far smaller PDF file.
-Matt Sullivan
You can add video to your FrameMaker documents in a few different ways:
- Insert a Hypertext marker using the Go To URL command that jumps to the video hosting location
- Insert a poster image, then add a hotspot to the URL
- Import the MP4 or Flash Video file directly into the FrameMaker document
As of July 2017, embedding iframes from video hosting sites is not supported.
Here’s a video showing how to embed MP4 directly into your Fm docs.
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I have some years of experience with Framemaker and we would like to embed the videos we make for the e-learning area in the meantime also as nice and easy as shown by you.
If I knew the secret why in my PDF only the image with link appears, without active Youtube toolbar and why in my case the video does not start embedded but on the Youtube page, then ….
… I would be happy
… would like to buy the FM
… maybe also take trainings
(can you hear that this topic makes me despair)?
Best regards
As of April 2021, I believe this functionality is broken (not removed) within FrameMaker 2020.
I’ve seen the same issue, where embedded MP4 is passed as an image to PDF, not as an embedded movie.
However, you can use the Insert>Multimedia>Online Video to create a live link to a YouTube or Vimeo video. Other hosted video may embed as well, I’m not sure of limits.