Q: Video Cuts off early
Hello:
I am trying to use the video feature and have ran into a couple problems.
1. The video never auto plays...or I haven't discovered the feature to have the video play upon entering the page.
2. When I do get the video to play...usually by clicking on it, it only plays the first 7-8 seconds of it before moving on to the next page. I did not set up anything to trigger this behavior. I'm not sure why my 30 second video would cut out after less than 10 seconds of playback.
Thank you for your time and help.
MacBook Pro (17-inch Late 2011), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.4)
Posted on Jul 1, 2013 2:47 PM
The web inspector highlighting is likely because your mouse is over the content. To disable the web inspector, deselect Preview > Show Web Inspector When Previewing.
As far as I can tell, iBooks Author doesn't allow auto-play videos (or auto-play anything as far as I can tell). It looks like user interaction is required.
For the "moving on to the next page", I suspect you enabled auto-advance. Can you provide a screenshot of the Overview window (where you can see all the pages), with the Inspector sidebar visible, and the video page selected? Here's what I'm looking for:
Posted on Jul 1, 2013 4:07 PM

