Using Sound and Movies
You can add audio—a music file, a playlist from your iTunes library, or any other sound
file—to a Pages document. You can add video that plays within a page.
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Pages accepts any QuickTime or iTunes file type, including the following:
MOV
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MP3
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MPEG-4
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AIFF
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AAC
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Also note that some media files are protected under copyright law. Some downloaded
music may be played only on the computer where the download occurred. Make
sure the computer you are using has permission to play all the media files included in
your document.
When you add media files to your document, make sure that they will be available
if you transfer your document to another computer. When saving your document,
make sure the option “Copy audio and movies into document” is selected in the Save
window. (If you don’t see the option, click the button next to the Save field to display
the entire Save window, and then click the Advanced Options disclosure triangle.)
To learn how to
Go to
Add audio to a document
“Adding a Sound File” on page 153
Add a movie
“Adding a Movie File” on page 154
Add a picture frame around a movie
“Placing a Picture Frame Around a Movie” on
page 155
Specify settings that control how audio and
movie files play
“Adjusting Media Playback Settings” on page 155
Remove unused portions of audio and movie files
from a document
“Reducing the Size of Media Files” on page 156