Yes, I've done this before with iMovie
but was hoping for a more straightforward
solution. John McPherson's suggestion
worked very well.
Dave
--- In applekeynote@yahoogroups.com, Juan M <juanm@...> wrote:
>
> don't you have iMovie?
>
> Just bring in all the photos and adjust the timing as you wish then
> add transitions. add music. very easy to do even if you have never
> done it before.
>
>
> Other thought within Keynote ... assume you have a 3 second minimum
> time for each slide but need some 4, 5 and 6 second times on each
> photo. you could make all the photos only one second long and then
> duplicate each slide for the number of seconds that you need it on
> the screen.
>
>
> good luck.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Jun 17, 2008, at 9:13 AM, AjBezark wrote:
>
> > The truth is, Keynote really isn't the best tool out there for
> > timed, musical slideshows. It's
> > 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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