Automatic slide transition timing

I'm putting together a presentation with multiple actions on each slide. The actions are all timed and I want each slide to be displayed for exactly 30 seconds before transition to the next slide.
But I can't figure out how to set this up. Is the automatic slide transition delay timed from the when the slide appears or when the last action finishes? I tried working it out both ways and it doesn't make sense.
e.g
I have a slide where a picture appears after 20 seconds. I then set the auto slide transition to 10 seconds. I expected the slide to change at 30s but it actually does it nearer 40s?
What's going on?
Thanks

I tried a new experiment with a fresh, new Keynote presentation. Plain white background. Three words that animate, each On Click. Move In, Bottom to Top. .2 second speed. Dragged my WAV narration file to the slide. Recorded the presentation, animating each word manually at the appropriate point in the narration. Playing back the recording in Keynote looks and sounds as intended. Exported to QuickTime. Narration starts, first animation doesn't appear in time. As soon as first animation appears, audio cuts off completely. Other two animations appear, with no audio.
I even tried a different font this time (a standard OS X font). This can't be a problem with my presentation file.
Something is wrong with the QuickTime exporting function. I'd love to know if anyone has had success (visuals and audio in sync) exporting to QuickTime after importing your narration (or sounds) by dropping an audio file on the slide.

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<<And if I try to record the timing, it also records the ambient noise in my office. Is there a way to record the timing but not the narration? >>
Go to the System Preferences > Sound > Input menu and select Line In. Then set the Input Volume control to zero. Now you can record with no audio input.
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Message was edited by: Gwyn Plem

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I believe this should be a simple answer, but it is escaping me, and 30 mins of googling for the answer hasn't led to a solution to this problem: *How do I make the first build in effect start automatically on transition to each new slide?*
I need this for a very simple presentation I'm putting together: Each slide has two lines of text; one at the top of the slide (like a question), then another on the bottom (the answer).
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How do I make the first build in effect start automatically on transition to each new slide?
You can read about this feature in Keynote in the Keynote help menu: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Keynote/5.0/en/kyntc693f26f.html
Go to the slide in question.
Go to the Build Inspector.
Click on Build In.
Click on "More Options" at the bottom.
Click on your first build.
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planned. When I click my 'Replay' button on the last slide,
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* 0:50 - 1:50 in length
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GlitchyExample
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kidogo said...
quote:
Which "best practices" are you referring to? If there an
official "best practices" document I may have overlooked? I've
configured the video using Captivate's features, so I'm not sure
how the results are "predictable." It works beautifully on the
first run, and the glitch doesn't occur until the replay. That
sounds like a timing issue inside Captivate (my junior member
analysis).
The "best practices" that I refer to are written, but
in a thousand posts and emails over years and years, not as an
intentionally constructed volume of work available by itself.
Sorry. Your "junior member analysis" is not to be taken lightly,
and I apologize if I made it sound like it was being so construed.
My apologies are hereby offered, if any are needed.
I think now I might have mis-read your original post, as it
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regards~
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To be correct; the latest Keynote is version 6.1 not 13.
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I was told to post here Re: Keynote Import slide transition timers
Can the transition times for a presentation can be inserted with automator or can it be imported from a CSV sort of file.
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How do I set a presentation for automatic slide change? I want it to change from slide 1 to slide 2 after 92 seconds. The Keynote Help says nothing directly about this when I query for "automatic slide change", but it does address "transition initiate automatically". In my mind, this is the same thing. After all, if you initiate a transition, you are initiating a change to the next slide, right? It says:
"Choose an option from the Start Transition pop-up menu.
On Click: Initiates the transition when you click to advance to the next slide.
Automatically: Initiates the transition after the amount of time specified in the Delay field."
Seems perfectly clear to me. I want the transition to initiate automatically, not on click. That's what I choose and I enter 92.0s. I assume that means the same as one minute 32 seconds. The transition doesn't happen. I know the Keynote Help often isn't easy to understand, but this is so simple and clear (once I got over the odd wording about "initiate"), yet it doesn't work. Why not?

Good luck getting any more help with that attitude.
You posted a problem that I was unable to reproduce when doing things properly, so all I did was try and offer some advice on the most common reasons why you wouldn't be getting the expected results. The other poster in this thread did the same.
What do we get back? Some silly playground-level chest beating about how you've been using the app since beta. That time obviously hasn't helped your problem-solving skills. Or your manners.
One less person in this forum I'll bother spending any time trying to help...

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Regards.

There is no such thing as an object transition, objects are animated using Builds or Actions: Inspector > Animate
I'm referring to "Object Effects" in the Transitions pull down (Object Push, Object Revolve, Object Flip, etc). So yes, technically there is an Object (transition) effect where objects transition between slides.
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True. However, if you use the last version of Keynote (before 6.5 and the Yosemite update) and place an image on the master slide it will not animate when applying many of the Object Effects.
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No EnzoFT said, "when I add a transition to the slides made with that master, the image I placed is animated too."
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That is a very narrow minded personal opinion.
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Narrow minded personal opinion?!? Do you really need to go there? I was simply making an observation.
Use Builds or Actions.
There has been no change; Transitions affect the whole slide, Builds and Actions affect objects on a slide.
If you try what I mentioned above there has been a change. Thanks for offering advice, but doing a little research in the future before replying to issues will help with providing more accurate information.

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Hi Glo H,
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