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Keynote - the most elegance, well-built application suitable for transforming ordinary slides into extraordinary presentation - maybe sounds unfamiliar to Windows users' ears. In most case, it's due to the fact that Keynote has its own extension; The slides and effects created in Keynote can be opened only with Keynote. However, Keynote is quite popular among Mac users; Perhaps, Steve Jobs also used Keynote for his presentations.
But, as I've experienced, presentations and/or movie effects made on Keynote can surely wow your friends who own only Windows. And for the sake of saving the trouble, I've found a way to export Keynote presentation into QuickTime Movie file (.MOV).
Let's assume that you've got your presentation slides and gorgeous effects ready and set. And now, you want to export your Keynote presentation into movie file, these following steps would be required.
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Attach Soundtrack
Movie without background sound will be a bit dull. Knowing that, should we attach a soundtrack to the movie. It's quite easy to attach soundtrack into your Keynote presentation.
- Go to Menubar View - Show Inspector (keystrokes: Command-Option-I)
- Select Document icon, the one on the left most
- Choose Audio section
- Browse through your iTunes Library to select the most appropriate soundtrack, there is a button to help you do that
- Drag the file onto the place provided
- Select the soundtrack loop using the option pane provided: Play Once, Loop or Off
Record Slideshow
The most interesting thing here is that you can manage your presentation timing using this thing. After the slideshow recording has been started, all clicks and effects performed during that recorded Keynote presentation will be captured.
Your exported movie will play with exact timing as that you set on your recording session.
If you've done your recording process but you found some mistakes in the middle of presentation, you can clear your recording and start all over again.
Export to QuickTime Movie
Summarize: until this point, you've got your soundtrack attached to your Keynote presentation and you've set good timing for your presentation slides.
Now the final step you need to perform is exporting your Keynote presentation to QuickTime Movie.
- Go to menubar File - Export…
- Select QuickTime
- Set Playback to use Recorded Timing
- Choose appropriate settings
- Confirm by clicking Next… button
- Fill in suitable name for the movie and wait patiently for the exporting process to take place
Note that the size of QuickTime Movie is far bigger than the Keynote file itself.
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11 Comments
Sander
Nice its perfect for the presentation I have to do this year! Thanks a Lot!
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Matthew Miller
Looks interesting. maybe will help for next school assignment
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John Bailey
Is the above written by people that have actually done this? I've been trying for hours to find a way to keep the video in sync when I transfer to quicktime. Seems every other user has this problem too. Fix it for gods sake!
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Mannion
if anyone can help with exporting the keynote presentation to Quicktime with soundtrack attached and the presentation recorded, where the Quicktime movie plays WITH the soundtrack, please let me know. Hours have passed and I did this successfully before but can do it again?
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Wendy
Yeah, I am the one writing the article. And I've tried this for couple of time. If you export the movie before record the timing, the soundtrack won't be in sync with the movie as it's saved in two separate files.
However, by first doing the record timing, your exported movie plus soundtrack will be exported the same timing as when it's recorded. Hope this can help you :)
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tom ilvento
Wendy, There was aknown problem when Quick Time 7.5 came out - the export from Keynote 4.03 would not work with QT 7.5. The only solution was to go back to QT 7.4. Apple was very VERY slow to fix this. I first experienced in in May 2008 and it was not fixed by late August. Are you saying this strategy works with QT 7.5?
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Wendy
Hi Tom, I was using QT 7.5.5 when I did the exporting.
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Jason Shen
just spent 20 mins searching this problem on forums. Trick is to add a new slide at the end of your current slide show, record sound briefly on this slide (select record and append not to delete anything) and then stop. Go to the keynote file, right-click show package contents. Look for the m4v file. Send it to garageband and export as an mp3. Whew!
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Christian
Hi, Thanks a lot for that blog post, I think you just saved my life! Thanks ever so much :-)
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rafael
Ok I just exported my presentaion in .mov (my client got PC), the issue is that in the same presentation tehre's a 10 min. interview to another client. How can i switch the video? It seems that in the .mov of keynote it's impossible to stop, back or go to a link until the end of the video or an animation.
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CK
Once I've saved the Keynote as a QTmovie, I want to be able to share with others via disc. Each time I burn a QTMovie to disc, the slides don't load properly. It's as if there's too much data on the slide and there are hiccups in the timing of the slide movement, incomplete loading of slides and generally poor performance. How to save as a QTMovie (or any format available to PC users and burnable to disc) without the headaches?
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