much better suited to verbal presentations, where the presenter clicks the cues manually
and unveils information in each slide. Using Keynote for a musical slide show is a little like
using Excel as a word processor: you can do it, but that's not really what it was built for,
and there are better tools out there.
Assuming you have iLife, the cheapest solution may be iPhoto. It lets you do beautiful
slide shows with the pan-and-zoom "Ken Burns" effect, and you can easily add music
from your iTunes library -- even DRM'd songs from the iTunes Store.
There are other, more advanced slide show apps out there, too. My personal favorite these
days is Boinx FotoMagico. It's like iPhoto's slide shows on steroids: the image quality is
equal to iPhoto, but it has even more control features. The pan/zoom effect is more
sophisticated; you can adjust the individual timing of each slide and use any combination
of transitions and fade speeds; you can easily use multiple music selections; and you can
even synchronize the slides precisely to the music (though this last feature is a little
tricky).
If you want to get trickier, another interesting slide show app is Aquafadas PulpMotion
Advanced. It lets you create shows with elaborate motion effects. You can make it look as
if your photos are sitting in frames on a shelf... or like your photos are hanging in a
museum and you're walking thru the galleries... or like your photos are in a printed book
and you're flipping thru the pages! PulpMotion's interface is a little funky, but the results
are very impressive.
My one real wish is that Apple would add a "pro" version of iPhoto's musical slide show
features and pan/zoom effects to Keynote, so it could be used for timed, theatrical
presentations with all of KN's existing titles, builds, etc. Better yet, I wish Apple would just
*buy* Fotomagico AND PulpMotion, and build their features into Keynote. :-)
Long ramble... good luck with your slide show!
--- In applekeynote@yahoogroups.com, "dpricemc" <dpp@...> wrote:
>
> Am doing a Keynote slideshow for a friend's
> wedding rehearsal dinner. I have done this at
> another wedding successfully, but played the
> Keynote presentation with a video projector
> hooked directly to a MacBook.
>
> This time around the MacBook won't be available,
> so I thought I'd put the Keynote presentation
> on a DVD.
>
> In the Send to iDVD dialog Keynote I am choosing
> Fixed Timing, but Keynote only permits one Slide
> Duration setting and one Build Duration setting
> for the entire presentation. Some of the slides
> stay on-screen longer than others, and some have
> different Build times.
>
> Any recommendations?
>
> I read in some of the posts (dated around 2006)
> that this might be a sticky wicket. Is the current
> version of Keynote any better at handling this?
>
> Thank you for your help!
>
> Dave
>
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