Re: [applekeynote] Re: iDVD timing question

Not sure why, but it looks better when exported from iMovie as a slide show. When using iMovie, photos are not as sharp. 

On Jun 17, 2008, at 5:56 PM, Juan M 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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