Re: [applekeynote] Re: Incorporating Keynote with other media

Sounds like that would be the very thing to display a Bible Timeline.

On Aug 5, 2008, at 1:40 PM, Mark Rushton wrote:

>
> Well done, Les! Your continued "public
> consultation" is appreciated - the mark of a
> presenter who knows how to give the audience what
> the want, not just what they need ;)
>
> I'm not sure how relevant this will be to your
> presentation, but I do want to share an
> experience I had recently integrating QuickTime
> product into Keynote that may have elements of
> use to you.
>
> I had a great deal of historical data to pass
> along to my audience, not incredibly deep in its
> content but spanning a long period of time. The
> night before the presentation (yes, that is how I
> tend to work. Sigh.) I happened across the Apple
> Design Award winners page from WWDC 2008
> (http://developer.apple.com/wwdc/ada/index.html#application)
>
> On that page I found the one-trick-pony (but what
> a pony!) BeeDocs Timeline 3D
> (http://www.beedocs.com).
>
> A quick demo download, and $69 payment later, I
> quickly built a very cool-looking (oh, and clear,
> informative and accessible to the audience)
> timeline.
>
> But... this would be one part of the
> presentation, not the whole shebang. And I didn't
> want to jump through those hoops of switching
> from Keynote to Timeline 3D (even with the Freeze
> Screen trick) and risk a funky presentation.
>
> Solution? Timeline 3D supports QuickTime export.
> So - I made a movie of the presentation. And
> then I discovered Apple's genius.
>
> I imported the movie into Keynote and placed it
> among the various slides. I test-ran the
> presentation, and was very pleased to discover
> that I could use the Apple Remote to control the
> movie as well! This enabled me to replicate
> (with careful play/pause use) Timeline 3D's own
> presentation method. And it was smooth as silk,
> too.
>
> However.... as I developed the presentation, it
> became clear that there were moments during the
> timeline in which I would need to expand on the
> point of a particular historical moment in
> greater detail, with accompanying supporting
> slides. This presented a quandry as to how to
> jump out of the movie and back to it later.
>
> Solution? Chop up the movie. I have QT Pro, so
> it was an easy matter - others can do the same,
> no doubt, with iMovie or another utility.
>
> The end result was pretty seamless, and the only
> tool I needed during the show was my Apple Remote.
>
> One caveat: once in a QT movie, you can
> Play/Pause at will, but there is no "reverse"
> that I know of to go backward within the video.
> :)
>
> Cheers,
> Mark.
> --
> _____________________________
> Mark Rushton,
> Doctorado en Estudios del Desarrollo
> Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas
> Zacatecas, México
> http://web.mac.com/mrushton
> _____________________________
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