Friday, November 14, 2008

[applekeynote] Re: QT movies not playing till the end on slides

Does anyone know if this has been resolved in the '08 Keynote? We have kiosks (minis
hooked to Plasma TVs) and want to loop a slideshow of movies, 1 per slide. The movies are
10-15 minutes each so the delay does not work as it is limited to 1 minute.

Thanks!

Tim

--- In applekeynote@yahoogroups.com, John Driedger <driedger1@...> wrote:
>
> This is a "Huge" problem?
>
> Does the whole thing play from beginning to end with no user
> involvement?
>
> If so you could make a QT movie. If not, is having them advance at
> the end of the movie that bad?
>
> Maybe others know, why are timings different on different Macs,
> doesn't it use the internal clock. It should be the same on any Mac,
> Right? 180 seconds is 180 seconds, no?
>
> How many movies you got? Time it for the Minis since you are
> presenting from that.
>
> Make four slides with different timings and see how it does. I bet in
> two attempts and you can nail the time on the thing. Sometimes to get
> what you want you just have to spend a bit of time on it.
>
> Yes, it would be nice if they had an auto transition after movie
> plays. Keynote isn't perfect. There's always PP.
>
>
> On 4-Sep-06, at 2:25 PM, Matthes, Raymond A. wrote:
>
> > On a presentation set to play automatically (kiosk) when importing
> > a movie
> > and wanting it to play till the end, and then automatically go to
> > the next
> > slide, Keynote does not work well at all. It seems that the only
> > way to
> > have the movie play till the end is to set the slide's transition
> > delay to
> > the lenght of the movie. Of course you have to convert minutes, in
> > this
> > case 3 minutes to seconds. Because the delay field only accepts
> > seconds.
> > Still, the presentation when playing the movie either stops the movie
> > before or way after and then moves on to the next slide. You
> > actually have
> > to guess on the timing of the transition delay to get it right ( a
> > true
> > waste of time).
> >
> > What is even worse, is that once you have all the delay timings
> > right for
> > the movies to play and then move on to the next slide, when you
> > save the
> > presentation (with movie files and media) and put that presentation in
> > another Mac, the movies will begin playing but either stop before
> > the end
> > or way after the movie is over and then move on to the next slide. You
> > then again have to redo the timings that will work fine on that
> > machine.
> >
> > Can't you just put a setting in the QT inspector that says "play movie
> > till the end and automatically move to the next slide"?
> >
> > I have 2 mac minis connected to 2 50" plamas. I am creating the
> > Keynote
> > presentation on my G5 Dual. Once I have my presentation all set up
> > correctly, I copy the Keynote files to the minis and then that is when
> > they movies in the slides don't work properly. The only reason why
> > we got
> > Mac minis to run the plasmas was because of the beauty of Keynote.
> > But now
> > it is proving to be a huge problem.
> >
> > Any suggestions or quick fixes would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> >
> >
>


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