Pages User Guide for Mac
- Welcome
- What’s new in Pages 14.2
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- Use iCloud Drive with Pages
- Export to Word, PDF or another file format
- Open an iBooks Author book in Pages
- Reduce the document file size
- Save a large document as a package file
- Restore an earlier version of a document
- Move a document
- Delete a document
- Lock a document
- Password-protect a document
- Create and manage custom templates
- Copyright
Edit video and audio in Pages on Mac
You can perform simple video and audio editing in Pages on Mac, like trimming, looping, adjusting volume and choosing a thumbnail for videos.
Set video or audio looping
Go to the Pages app on your Mac, then open a document with video or audio.
Click to select the video or audio on the page.
In the Format sidebar, click the Movie or Audio tab.
To set media to repeat, click the Repeat pop-up menu, then choose how you want it to play:
Play in a continuous loop: Choose Loop.
Play forward and then backward: Choose Loop Back and Forth.
Note: Audio recorded in Pages can’t loop back and forth.
Trim video or audio
Go to the Pages app on your Mac, then open a document with video or audio.
Click to select the video or audio on the page.
In the Format sidebar, click the Movie or Audio tab.
Click next to Edit Movie or Edit Audio to show the edit tools (if necessary).
Drag the Trim sliders.
Note: You can’t trim audio that you recorded in Pages on your iPhone or iPad.
Change the thumbnail for a video
You can change the video thumbnail — the frame that’s displayed on a page to represent a video.
Go to the Pages app on your Mac, then open a document with a video.
Click to select the video on the page.
In the Format sidebar, click the Movie tab.
Click next to Edit Movie, then drag the Poster Frame slider.
Adjust playback volume
Go to the Pages app on your Mac, then open a document with video or audio.
Click to select the video or audio on the page.
In the Format sidebar, click the Movie or Audio tab.
Drag the volume slider.
You can set Pages to optimise the format and quality of movies and images that you add to documents.