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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