This option is used to insert movies in your topics for the output formats that support them. See Videos and Animated Media for details. There are a number of different dialogs for the different video and animated media types. The options in each dialog are quite similar, however.
Insert Video / Video tab:
File: |
The local video file you want to insert. Drag & Drop: •You can drag local video files into the the Local Video dialog |
Caption/Title: |
The caption is displayed below the placeholder image for the video just like the caption of an image. The Title is the ALT tag text of the preview image that is also displayed as mouseover tip. |
Aspect ratio: |
This will generally be set automatically from the video you select. If you select the aspect ratio (4:3, 16:9 or 16:10) you only need to enter the width of the video. The height is then calculated automatically. Alternatively you can select Custom Aspect Ratio and enter both values manually. |
Width/Height: |
The dimensions of the video. If you select the aspect ratio the height is grayed out and is calculated automatically from the width. |
Alignment/ |
This is the same as the alignment and padding values for inserting images. It inserts space around the video in the topic page. |
Play Inline/ |
If you select Lightbox the video will be played in an overlay on the page when the user clicks on the placeholder image. Inline plays the video in the page in the position where the placeholder image is displayed, in the same way as embedded videos on most web pages. |
Preview zoom: |
Zoom size of the preview image. This is also the display size of the video when you select Zoom proportional to page width (inline option only). |
Zoom proportional to page: |
Makes the preview image responsive, and also the video if it is played inline. Its percentage width will then be relative to the current page width and will adjust automatically when the user changes the browser or viewer window size. This is only available if you select Play Inline. When you choose Lightbox mode the lightbox overlay containing the video always scales to the page automatically. |
Show controls: |
Displays the video player's controls if possible. |
Add play button: |
Adds an overlay Play button to the placeholder image so that it is more obvious to the user that they can play the video by clicking on it. |
Insert Video / Embed Code tab:
This tab displays the HTML code used to embed the movie in HTML-based output formats (HTML Help and WebHelp) and allows you to edit it if you want to.
Selecting I want to enter the embedded HTML code manually displays the code and allows you to edit it or replace it with your own code. Select this after selecting your video in the main tab, otherwise you won't get very meaningful code!
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