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Exporting Keynote Presentation to QuickTime Compatible Movie File
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Keynote - the most elegance, well-built application suitable for transforming ordinary slides into extraordinary presentation - maybe sounds unfamiliar to Windows users' ears. In most case, it's due to the fact that Keynote has its own extension; The slides and effects created in Keynote can be opened only with Keynote. However, Keynote is quite popular among Mac users; Perhaps, Steve Jobs also used Keynote for his presentations.
But, as I've experienced, presentations and/or movie effects made on Keynote can surely wow your friends who own only Windows. And for the sake of saving the trouble, I've found a way to export Keynote presentation into QuickTime Movie file (.MOV).
Let's assume that you've got your presentation slides and gorgeous effects ready and set. And now, you want to export your Keynote presentation into movie file, these following steps would be required.
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Attach Soundtrack
Movie without background sound will be a bit dull. Knowing that, should we attach a soundtrack to the movie. It's quite easy to attach soundtrack into your Keynote presentation.
- Go to Menubar View - Show Inspector (keystrokes: Command-Option-I)
- Select Document icon, the one on the left most
- Choose Audio section
- Browse through your iTunes Library to select the most appropriate soundtrack, there is a button to help you do that
- Drag the file onto the place provided
- Select the soundtrack loop using the option pane provided: Play Once, Loop or Off
Record Slideshow
The most interesting thing here is that you can manage your presentation timing using this thing. After the slideshow recording has been started, all clicks and effects performed during that recorded Keynote presentation will be captured.
Your exported movie will play with exact timing as that you set on your recording session.
If you've done your recording process but you found some mistakes in the middle of presentation, you can clear your recording and start all over again.
Export to QuickTime Movie
Summarize: until this point, you've got your soundtrack attached to your Keynote presentation and you've set good timing for your presentation slides.
Now the final step you need to perform is exporting your Keynote presentation to QuickTime Movie.
- Go to menubar File - Export…
- Select QuickTime
- Set Playback to use Recorded Timing
- Choose appropriate settings
- Confirm by clicking Next… button
- Fill in suitable name for the movie and wait patiently for the exporting process to take place
Note that the size of QuickTime Movie is far bigger than the Keynote file itself.
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31 Comments
Sander
Nice its perfect for the presentation I have to do this year! Thanks a Lot!
Matthew Miller
Looks interesting. maybe will help for next school assignment
John Bailey
Is the above written by people that have actually done this? I've been trying for hours to find a way to keep the video in sync when I transfer to quicktime. Seems every other user has this problem too. Fix it for gods sake!
Mannion
if anyone can help with exporting the keynote presentation to Quicktime with soundtrack attached and the presentation recorded, where the Quicktime movie plays WITH the soundtrack, please let me know. Hours have passed and I did this successfully before but can do it again?
Wendy
Yeah, I am the one writing the article. And I've tried this for couple of time. If you export the movie before record the timing, the soundtrack won't be in sync with the movie as it's saved in two separate files.
However, by first doing the record timing, your exported movie plus soundtrack will be exported the same timing as when it's recorded. Hope this can help you :)
tom ilvento
Wendy, There was aknown problem when Quick Time 7.5 came out - the export from Keynote 4.03 would not work with QT 7.5. The only solution was to go back to QT 7.4. Apple was very VERY slow to fix this. I first experienced in in May 2008 and it was not fixed by late August. Are you saying this strategy works with QT 7.5?
Wendy
Hi Tom, I was using QT 7.5.5 when I did the exporting.
Jason Shen
just spent 20 mins searching this problem on forums. Trick is to add a new slide at the end of your current slide show, record sound briefly on this slide (select record and append not to delete anything) and then stop. Go to the keynote file, right-click show package contents. Look for the m4v file. Send it to garageband and export as an mp3. Whew!
Christian
Hi, Thanks a lot for that blog post, I think you just saved my life! Thanks ever so much :-)
rafael
Ok I just exported my presentaion in .mov (my client got PC), the issue is that in the same presentation tehre's a 10 min. interview to another client. How can i switch the video? It seems that in the .mov of keynote it's impossible to stop, back or go to a link until the end of the video or an animation.
CK
Once I've saved the Keynote as a QTmovie, I want to be able to share with others via disc. Each time I burn a QTMovie to disc, the slides don't load properly. It's as if there's too much data on the slide and there are hiccups in the timing of the slide movement, incomplete loading of slides and generally poor performance. How to save as a QTMovie (or any format available to PC users and burnable to disc) without the headaches?
Mannion
I found this solution to exporting with soundtrack on Dec 2nd. However, when I export to iDVD or to Quicktime and burn recorded movie on to iDVD, The soundtrack is now missing! The frustrating exercise takes up to 2 hours at a time to find this out on each attempt. I have tried this a number of times and its very challenging. If anyone can offer a solution it would be most appreciated. ; Right/Control-click the KN file and open the Package Contents. In there is an audio file that has the soundtrack. Open it in QT, select all and copy. Then open the QT file exported from KN, go to the beginning of the movie, select Edit>Add To Movie. Save and you'll be all set. On Nov 4, 2008, at 2:46 PM, Alan Russell wrote
Garry Genser
I wonder how you can do this when everyone else on the web says, and my experience confirms, that the sound narration does not come through into the movie.
William
1) I created a cool slide presentation 2) I export it to QuickTime then Can I upload to YouTube via QuickTime Pro? I will only spend the $30 if I know for sure the YouTube presentation will look as good as the QuickTime movie.
Gary
I found a very ugly fix to the audio not exporting with the video. First export the video into a mov file. Next, if you "control" click on the keynote file and select view package contents, you can then drag the mov or m4a file to the desktop. Now you have the audio and video files. You can use either Adobe Premiere, After Effects or Final Cut Pro (or any other video editing software) to combine the sound and audio into one file. It's a bit hackish, but it works.
Enter Your Name
Can anyone show me how I can make a short movie to play full length (8 miutes) in the middle of a slide presentation in Keynote, when each slide is designated 10 seconds to play. I want keynote to play this continously non-stop. Ecah time I try this I find that even the movie (MPG4) is playing also 10 seconds only just like the rest of the slides. Your help is greatly appreciated.
Bob Moody
The easiest way is to do your keynote with your sound track like you were going to play it on your computer. Then get the progam Snapz Pro X from http://www.ambrosiasw.com/utilities/snapzprox/ It does video capture of whatever is on your screen and coming out your speakers. It loads at startup and runs in the background. When you are ready to make your movie, Bring up your Keynote presentation, press Command-Shift-3 and Snapz Pro brings up a control panel where you select what you want. Then hit the Return key and it says "Action" at which point you play your recorded Keynote presentation. When the presentation is over, hit Command-Shift-3 again and Snapz stops recording and says "That's a Wrap." Then a dialog comes up asking you where to save it. That's done. To put it on the web, use QuickTime Pro to shrink it down. I use 15 fps and pretty good sound and it streams nicely from my web site.
Ellie
Hi, I'm struggling to export a keynote document to quicktime while keeping the audio from a movie that's built into the keynote presentation. I've been in the apple store for 2 hours and on the phone to applecare for an hour and they can't help. I noticed a couple of people mentioned right-clicking on the KN file and selecting Package Contents to isolate the audio and add it separately - but I can't find the 'package contents' koption anywhere in any menu when i ctrl-click. Where do I find package contents on the KN file? My presentation is due in today and I will be disqualified if I can fix this! Please help!
Garry
I bet some of you will be very glad to hear that Keynote 09 has the exporting problem of losing the audio fixed. I tested it myself with both a "recorded" presentation and an imported soundtrack. I also tired it with a sound clip simply dragged onto a slide... They ALL came through on the exported movie. Another related problem though was NOT fixed. If you try to changed the resulting ".mov" file some a "wmv" filed in quicktime pro you will be dissappointed to find out that only 7 seconds or so will come through into the new "wmv" file. The 7 seconds or so does work just fine but of course the file is incomplete and useless. Anyone have any ideas of why this might be happening.
Jonathan
Garry, where did you get said "fix". Is there are download available on the support section of apple.com Also, I'm very interested in what Bob Moody was saying above. Looks like Snapz Pro might be the thing we're all looking for. Yeah, we have to get something additional, but Keynote does do a great job of making our stuff scream. Still worth a lot of praise there.
Andrea
Genius!!! Thanks a lot!
Steve Kryger
This was a great article - helped me out with an issue I had keeping the timings that I'd set-up. Thanks for writing this and sharing it.
Peter
I have completed my Keynote slide show which has a 65 sec movie clip (wmv) about half way through. It works like a dream as a slide show but when I export it to Quicktime, the clip starts to play for about 3 secs and then freezes. The rest of the QT presentation is perfect. I've gone back and checked timings in Slide and Build Inspector and they are fine and as I say, it works fine as a slide show. Can anyone help?
Caryn
Hi there - This is all sooo helpful! My only problem is that when I record the slideshow including the music, it also records the background noise that occurs while it's recording...is there any way that I can block that and just let it record the audio? The audio sounds so tinny and far-away when I play it back (also includes the dogs barking and me talking...not so good...) Thanks!!
Peter
I turn the volume down to zero so that I don't get any feedback from the speakers (i.e. overlaying the music twice). Don't talk or make any sound during recording and my only other recommendation is to shoot the dog before you start ;)
Jared
Peter - I thought I tried that and I still get that tinny and far-away sound that Caryn is getting. Any other solutions to prevent that from happening when recording? Caryn - did it work for you?
Tiffany Leeson
this article on turning the keynote into quicktime just saved my presentation with 5 minutes to go. My university doesn't have the capabilities to hook up my mac to the projection screen THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LXL
First, reading all of the above problems and solutions is appreciated, somewhat therapeutic and often actually helpful. I've got another variation to add of my own now. Hopefully I did not overlook this already posted. I too want to export my slideshow to a QT movie for DVD. However, I have created this slideshow with varied timing on different slides and transitions; some will have a duration of 2 seconds, others 3, some with a faster or slower dissolve, etc. I have created a mixed, synched music track (using Garageband) and it plays with perfect timing from KN using the 'self-playing' setting in the Inspector. My problem is that export options offered do not include this timing mode. When exporting to either QT or for iDVD the choices are 'Manual Advance' (not needed) or 'Fixed Timing' which forces me to choose a set time for all slides and transitions. This of course throws the slideshow and music timing way off. Does anyone know any workarounds for this? am thinking my fallback may be the SnapzPro capture option suggested by Bob Moody above, though I hope to be able to get the quality up to DVD level. Many thanks!
English Dave
OK people, please help...I haven't sen a solution above MY MISSION To convert my Keynote 09 presentation with perfectly set transitions and soundtrack to a Quicktime Movie... THE PROBLEM When I convert to a QT movie, none of the settings work perfectly: 1 - Manual advance - obviously not right 2 - Hyperlinks only - again not right 3 - Recorded Timing - the problem here is that there is a loss in sound quality as the microphone on my imac picks up all the surrounding noise, and the soundtrack is not sharp - considering that the next stop is YouTube, where there will be more loss of quality, this is not a very good option 4 - Fixed Timing - this is no good as I vary the transition timing based on the slides There surely has to be a simple way to do this?? Someone smart out there please help......this is driving me nuts !!!!!!!
Vlad Galbin
NICE this was amazing, my keynote presentation is now perfect. Thanks sooooo much!
Cary Ellis
Wow -yeah - thank you all for this discussion - the only one I've been able to find - can't believe apple hasn't fixed this - and I hope they're reading. I've spent the last 3 weeks learning how and making a keynote slideshow I'm very happy with, recorded audio voice and music on audacity & dragged the segments onto each slide. I'm so happy with what I ended up with - and now if I try to "record" the slideshow in Keynote the sound is all varied - echoes / quiet, etc... maybe audacity doesn't mix with keynote though they were saved as mp3. It doesn't even come through when I try to save in quicktime. Will attempt the snapZpro and report back. I would love help to get this done if anyone has any ideas!
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