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  • March 26, 2010 at 2:08 am in reply to: Embedding sound clips – Which format for hi quality + low file size? #55320
    boogyman
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    If I do decide to embed the audio directly into the pdf instead of indesign, that neat trick you linked me to above will definitely help, now that I understand it. Replace the page (that has been revised in indesign, and exported as a pdf) without disturbing the objects (in my case, sound objects). Great! That's probably what I'll end up doing, since the edits are going to be almost entirely punctuation, like substitute semi-colon in for period. So thanks again, David. And nice site :D It's my first time here, I found it very user friendly and the help is much appreciated.

    March 25, 2010 at 7:08 pm in reply to: Embedding sound clips – Which format for hi quality + low file size? #52323
    boogyman
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    If I do decide to embed the audio directly into the pdf instead of indesign, that neat trick you linked me to above will definitely help, now that I understand it.  Replace the page (that has been revised in indesign, and exported as a pdf) without disturbing the objects (in my case, sound objects). Great!  That's probably what I'll end up doing, since the edits are going to be almost entirely punctuation, like substitute semi-colon in for period.  So thanks again, David. And nice site :D  It's my first time here, I found it very user friendly and the help is much appreciated.

    March 25, 2010 at 5:52 pm in reply to: Embedding sound clips – Which format for hi quality + low file size? #55317
    boogyman
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    I wrapped the mp3 files in swf and imported the swf file into indesign, clicked on the option to show player controller upon playback in pdf, but when I exported and opened as pdf, then clicked on the swf file, it played fine, but there is no controller. I am using CS3. I didn't think this would be an issue, to play an swf file in a pdf, but apparently it is. it's hopeless! xD maybe it's because I wrapped the mp3 into the swf, which means there's no video? could that be a reason why the controller doesn't appear?

    March 25, 2010 at 2:57 pm in reply to: Embedding sound clips – Which format for hi quality + low file size? #55312
    boogyman
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    Hi David, thanks for the reply. I feel understood! haha. Yes, I have tried embedding files into acrobat itself, but the problem is that there are hundreds of sound files, and also if I made any changes to the file, and re-exported, I would have to change the properties of each individual avi file (to open with flash instead of quicktime) all over again. I tried to find a way to change all those properties of all the avi objects at once, but acrobat only allows me to “lock” all objects at once (if i select and click on properties), not change the preferred player for all of them. Someone suggested I embed swf instead, that is, convert mp3 to swf. I will try that and post the result.

    March 25, 2010 at 10:52 am in reply to: Embedding sound clips – Which format for hi quality + low file size? #52321
    boogyman
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    I wrapped the mp3 files in swf and imported the swf file into indesign, clicked on the option to show player controller upon playback in pdf, but when I exported and opened as pdf, then clicked on the swf file, it played fine, but there is no controller.  I am using CS3.  I didn't think this would be an issue, to play an swf file in a pdf, but apparently it is. it's hopeless! xD maybe it's because I wrapped the mp3 into the swf, which means there's no video? could that be a reason why the controller doesn't appear?

    March 25, 2010 at 7:57 am in reply to: Embedding sound clips – Which format for hi quality + low file size? #52320
    boogyman
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    Hi David, thanks for the reply.  I feel understood!  haha.  Yes, I have tried embedding files into acrobat itself, but the problem is that there are hundreds of sound files, and also if I made any changes to the file, and re-exported, I would have to change the properties of each individual avi file (to open with flash instead of quicktime) all over again.  I tried to find a way to change all those properties of all the avi objects at once, but acrobat only allows me to “lock” all objects at once (if i select and click on properties), not change the preferred player for all of them.  Someone suggested I embed swf instead, that is, convert mp3 to swf.  I will try that and post the result.

    March 25, 2010 at 7:08 am in reply to: Embedded avi content – default playback on built-in flash player instead of quicktime? #55292
    boogyman
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    no problem, just i'll have to deduct fifty points from your final score xD

    But yeah, I think you're on the right track. What I should do is forget about messing around with getting flash player to open the avi files in the pdf, and instead choose another format other than avi, even if in the end this means a pdf book ten times the size that has to be broken up into ten pdfs. In other words, I should accept my fate and embed wav files. nnoooo nooo i said it…. noo NOOOOOOOOO!!!! xD What's crazy is that each “chapter” of the pdf has 1 hour of audio = 280 mb of wav files. 280 mb for one pdf. that's pretty huge! had avi worked out it would have been about 30 mb.

    March 25, 2010 at 6:43 am in reply to: Embedded avi content – default playback on built-in flash player instead of quicktime? #55290
    boogyman
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    hmmmm hmmm…. *scratches head* I tried that, but the result was 4mb aiff file compared to 300k avi (because it uses mp3 compression). avi was the only format I found (using soundforge) that kept the file size as low as mp3 with the same quality, and could be embedded. thanks for replying so fast xD :D

    March 25, 2010 at 12:08 am in reply to: Embedded avi content – default playback on built-in flash player instead of quicktime? #52306
    boogyman
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    no problem, just i'll have to deduct fifty points from your final score xD

    But yeah, I think you're on the right track. What I should do is forget about messing around with getting flash player to open the avi files in the pdf, and instead choose another format other than avi, even if in the end this means a pdf book ten times the size that has to be broken up into ten pdfs.  In other words, I should accept my fate and embed wav files. nnoooo nooo i said it…. noo NOOOOOOOOO!!!! xD  What's crazy is that each “chapter” of the pdf has 1 hour of audio = 280 mb of wav  files. 280 mb for one pdf.  that's pretty huge!  had avi worked out it would have been about 30 mb.

    March 24, 2010 at 11:43 pm in reply to: Embedded avi content – default playback on built-in flash player instead of quicktime? #52304
    boogyman
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    hmmmm hmmm…. *scratches head* I tried that, but the result was 4mb aiff file compared to 300k avi (because it uses mp3 compression). avi was the only format I found (using soundforge) that kept the file size as low as mp3 with the same quality, and could be embedded. thanks for replying so fast xD :D

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