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Winter Park Civic Center
Event DetailsOn September 23rd 2009, 80 people attended the meeting of the Orlando InDesign User Group -- a truly eventful and enlightening evening. We started the night with pizza and networking. Professor Robert McCaffrey, instructor and program director for Valencia’s Digital Media for Video and Motion Graphics program wowed the audience with how to create and place stunning animated content to transform Adobe InDesign CS4 into dynamic Acrobat PDF Print and Web designs. Professor McCaffrey showed us how to prep static images and logos for animation, hide cut points with full-frame and edge-on transitions, apply animated strokes to our vector designs, and use the 3D capabilities in Photoshop and After Effects.
Here are the notes from Robert's presentation that explains what file formats are needed and how to place an animation into InDesign. You can download the full PDF of this information, with video, at the bottom of this page.
Prepping your video for PDFs, InDesign or the web
• It’s recommended to keep animated GIFs to around 5 frames per second (5 fps) if your overall video or animation is longer than a few seconds.
• For photorealistic video or animations with lighting effects, video codecs will give you better quality than GIFs, but the resulting file sizes will be larger.
• Acrobat can play the H.264 codec without help from an external player; so if you’re able, export your video using this codec.
Placing a video into your InDesign document
• Use File > Place and navigate to your video file.
• Click in your InDesign document to place the video. (If you drag out a bounding box, you might accidentally change the aspect ratio of your video).
Exporting your multimedia InDesign document to PDF
• Use File > Export
• Choose Adobe PDF from the format dropdown menu
• In the export dialog box, set the PDF quality. ‘Smallest File Size’ is usually best for online or email‐able PDFs.
• In the export dialog box, look for the ‘Include’ section.
• Check the ‘Interactive Elements’ checkbox and choose from Link All (if your document will be able to access the file externally) or Embed All (if you need to make a self‐contained multimedia PDF).
To Contact Professor Robert McCaffrey, Program Director - Digital Media for Video and Motion Graphics
East Campus 1-147 :: 407 582-2784 :: rmccaffrey@valenciacc.edu
http://dmt.valenciacc.edu
OFFICE HOURS FALL 2009
Tuesday online hours from 9-11am in Second Life (b0bby Fhang) and on WebCT.
Physical office hours in East Campus room 1-147
M 3-5pm, W 9-11am, R 1-3 pm, F 9-11am
See examples of student work at:
http://youtube.com/ValenciaDigitalMedia
http://picasaweb.google.com/ValenciaDigitalMedia
Many thanks to our sponsors for their ongoing and generous support, to all of our partners for support and raffle prizes and Adobe for our prize of InDesign CS4. See our meeting photos of all our prize winners.
A special thank-you to Professor Robert McCaffrey for going the extra miles to be with us and for providing such a useful online handout...
Many thanks to Douglas Mitchell.
Great meeting! It's very interesting see what can be done with video and animation using Photoshop. —Kimmi
Great meeting – Professor McCaffery was a terrific presenter! —Dan
Loved hearing about features in Photoshop that I didn't know were there! —Gale
Great job tonight. I learned quite a bit that I didn't know. Rob seemed very knowledgeable and had a friendly manner. —Michelle
I'm pretty new but was able to follow along and understand. —Xanthe
Our next meeting will be held on November 18, 2009, the third Wednesday night of the month at the Winter Park Civic Center from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. We will return to the basics with Ann Bennett, Instructor at Winter Park Tech. This meeting is already up on the website, so please take a look to see the details, and even to see the content so you can make suggestions (which you are invited to do).
I look forward to seeing you all there!
Edward Feldman, Chapter Representative
Orlando InDesign User Group
efeldman@mac.com
Orange County Public Schools
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