You can insert Flash, Windows Media, HTML5, or QuickTime videos directly into your Flare topics or snippets. See Inserting Videos.
Options:
- Embedded You can use Insert > Multimedia to embed the video in the content file. In addition, you can specify advanced settings, such as whether to include controls with the movie (e.g., Play, Pause), whether to automatically start the movie when it displays, and audio levels. The options available depend on the type of movie you are inserting. Also, keep in mind that some movie formats may be supported in some outputs but not in others.
- Linked You can use Insert > Hyperlink. When you use this option, the user must click the text link in order to open the movie. Also, you can choose to display the movie in another window.
- Drag and Drop You can insert embedded movie files by dragging and dropping the movie file from the Content Explorer or File List window pane into the XML Editor. However, with this method, you can specify any necessary advanced settings only after the movie file is inserted (to do this, right-click on the inserted movie and select Edit Multimedia).
Here is an example of an embedded MP4 video that was created using the HTML5 movie output format in MadCap Mimic.
Note When you insert a movie from outside your project (using the Insert > Multimedia option), a copy of the file is added to your project. The file is stored by default in the Resources > Multimedia folder of the Content Explorer.
