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How To Add Background Video With Adobe Muse

By Tom Green Tom Green Writer Humber College Tom Green is a former Lifewire writer, the author or coauthor of 15 books on computer graphics, and is a professor at Humber College. lifewire's editorial guidelines Updated on March 16, 2021 Tweet Share Email Tweet Share Email Design Graphic Design Photoshop Animation & Video 3D Design

What to Know

With the Home page in Plan view, go to Window > Library > [MR] Fullscreen Background Video folder and drag the widget to the page.To add a video, go to File > Add Files For Upload > videos folder > Open. Adobe Muse allows you to create web pages using a similar workflow to publications; you don’t need a deep understanding of the code that builds a site or page, although familiarity with HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript won’t hurt. Though traditional web video is usually added through HTML5 Video API, Adobe Muse accomplishes the same thing through widgets that create the HTML 5 required for specific tasks but use a plain-language interface in Muse to write the code when the page is published. Download the Fullscreen Video Background widget

How To Prepare A Page For Background Video in Adobe Muse CC

Lifewire With the widget installed, you can now create the page that will use the video. Before you start, create a folder for your Muse site. Inside that folder, create another folder – we use “media” – and move your mp4 and webm versions of the video into that folder. When you launch Muse, select File > New Site. When the Layout dialog box opens, select Desktop as the Initial Layout and change the Page Width and Page Height values to 1200 and 900. Click OK. Double click Master Page in the Plan view to open the Master page. When the Master Page opens, move the Header and Footer guides to the top and the bottom of the page. You really don’t need a Header and Footer for this example.

How To Use The Fullscreen Background Video Widget in Adobe Muse CC

Lifewire Using the widget is dead simple. The first thing you need to do is return to the Plan View by selecting View > Plan Mode. When the Plan View opens, double-click the Home page to open it. Open the Library panel – if it isn’t open on the right side of the Interface, select Window > Library – and twirl down the [MR] Fullscreen Background Video folder. Drag the folder widget to the page. You will notice the Options ask you to enter the names of the mp4 and webm versions of the videos. Enter the names exactly as they are spelled in the folder where you placed them. One little trick to ensure you don’t make a mistake is to copy the name of the mp4 video and paste it into the MP4 and WEBM areas of the Options menu.
One other trick: All this widget does is to write the HTML 5 code for you. You can tell this because you see <> in the widget. In this case, you can place the widget from the web page onto the pasteboard, and it will still work. This way, it doesn’t interfere with any content you will place on the page.

How To Add Video and Test A Page In Adobe Muse CC

Lifewire Though you have added the code that will play the videos, Muse still doesn’t know where those videos are located. To fix this, select File > Add Files For Upload. When the Upload dialog box opens, navigate to the folder containing your videos, select them and click Open. To ensure they have been uploaded, open the Assets panel, and you should see your two videos. Just leave them in the panel. They don’t need to be placed on the page. To test the project, select File > Preview Page In Browser or, because this is a single page, File > Preview Site In Browser. Your default browser will open, and the video will play. At this point, you can treat the Muse file as a regular web page and add content to the Home page, and the video will play underneath it.

How To Add A Video Poster Frame In Adobe Muse CC

Lifewire This is the web we are talking about here, and, depending on the connection speed, there is a good chance your user may open the page and be staring at a blank screen while the video loads. This is not a good thing. Here’s how to deal with this bit of nastiness. It is a “Best Practice” to include a poster frame of the video, which will appear while the video loads. This is usually a full-size screenshot of a frame from the video. To add the poster frame, click once on Browser Fill at the top of the page. Click the Image link and navigate to the image to be used. In the Fitting area, select Scale to Fill and click the Center point in the Position area. This will ensure the image will always scale from the center of the image when the browser’s viewport size changes. You will also see the image fill the page. Another little trick is to have a solid fill color in case the poster frame takes a while to appear. To do this, click the Color chip to open the Muse Color Picker. Select the eyedropper tool and click on a predominant color in the image. When finished, click on the page to close the Browser Fill dialog box. At this point, you can save the project or publish it. The final part of this series shows you how to write the HTML5 code that slides a video into a web page's background. Was this page helpful? Thanks for letting us know! Get the Latest Tech News Delivered Every Day Subscribe Tell us why! Other Not enough details Hard to understand Submit More from Lifewire PHP File (What It Is & How to Open One) How to Save Web Pages in the Opera Desktop Browser How to View the HTML Source in Google Chrome Viewing the HTML Source Code in Safari What Is a GIF? Home Pages: What Are They? What Is a WEBM File? 26 Best Free Video Converter Tools ASPX File (What It Is and How to Open One) How to Set the Home Page to Your Favorite Website What Is a PDF File? (And How to Open One) What's an MHT File and How Do You Open One? MQ4 File (What It Is & How to Open One) How to Save Twitter Videos on iOS, Android, and Windows WLMP File (What It Is and How to Open One) The Top 10 Personalized Start Pages for Your Web Browser Newsletter Sign Up Newsletter Sign Up Newsletter Sign Up Newsletter Sign Up Newsletter Sign Up By clicking “Accept All Cookies”, you agree to the storing of cookies on your device to enhance site navigation, analyze site usage, and assist in our marketing efforts. Cookies Settings Accept All Cookies