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Add video and audio in Pages on Mac
You can add video and audio to a document, or replace a media placeholder with a video.
Note: Video and audio files must be in a format that QuickTime supports on your Mac. If you can’t add or play a video or audio file, try using iMovie, QuickTime Player, or Compressor to convert the file to a QuickTime file (with a .mov filename extension) for video, or an MPEG-4 file (with a .m4a filename extension) for audio.
You can also record audio and add it to your document.
Add video or audio
Do one of the following:
Drag a media file from your computer to a media placeholder or anywhere else on the page.
To add a video, click
in the toolbar, choose Photos or Videos, then drag a video file to a media placeholder or anywhere else on the page.
To add audio, click
in the toolbar, choose Music, then drag an audio file to a media placeholder or anywhere else on the page.
Click the Play button on the media to play it in the document.
Add a video from the web
You can add links from YouTube and Vimeo so videos play right in your document.
Important: This feature may not be available in all regions.
Click
in the toolbar, then choose Web Video.
Type or paste a link to the video, then click Insert.
To play the web video in your document, click the Play button
.
Note: You must be connected to the internet to play a video from the web.
When you paste supported video links into your document, they are inserted as web videos by default. To change this setting, choose Pages > Settings (from the Pages menu at the top of your screen), then deselect the checkbox next to “Paste YouTube and Vimeo links as web videos.”
Replace video or audio
Click to select the video or audio on the page.
In the Format
sidebar, click the Movie, Audio, or Web Video tab.
Click Replace.
Select a video or audio file, then click Open.
If you are replacing a web video, insert a link to a new video, then choose Replace.
Add a video description
You can add a description to videos in your document that you added from your device, iCloud, or another service. Video descriptions are read by assistive technology (for example, VoiceOver) when someone uses that technology to access your document. Video descriptions aren’t visible anywhere in your document.
Click the video to select it, then in the Format
sidebar, click the Movie tab.
Click the Description text box, then enter your text.
If you export your document as a PDF, video descriptions are still readable by assistive technology. See Export to Word, PDF, or another file format in Pages on Mac.
To add descriptions to an image or drawing, see Add an image description or Add a drawing description.
Add an audio description
You can add a description to any audio in your document. Audio descriptions are read by assistive technology when someone uses that technology to access your document. Audio descriptions aren’t visible anywhere in your document.
Click the audio to select it, then in the Format
sidebar, click the Audio tab.
Click the Description text box, then enter your text.
If you export your document as a PDF, audio descriptions are still readable by assistive technology. See Export to Word, PDF, or another file format in Pages on Mac.
To add descriptions to an image, drawing, or video, see Add an image description, Add a drawing description, or Add a video description.
You can set Pages to optimize the format and quality of movies and images that you add to documents.
To set video or audio looping, adjust playback volume, or make other edits to your media, see Edit video and audio.