Best Way to Prepare a Self Running Keynote

Hi,
Hoping to mine the collective wisdom here.
I sell quite complex software solutions to the legal profession, and have a very elaborate Keynote (approx 1 hr when delivering personally) presentation as an initial introduction to the solution.
Many audiences ask for a copy of this so they can replay it to their colleagues. I have to date exported the Keynote to iDVD and sent that to people who want it. However, this means that I am then relying on a "second-hand" message.
What I want to do is prepare a DVD with the Keynote AND my narration dubbed on top. I know I can do this in FCP, it's just getting the methodology correct.
I toyed with "re-doing" each of the Keynote slides in Photoshop etc. to drop into the timeline but have decided against this because some of the Keynote transitions and builds don't seem possible in FCP. So I think my best way is to export the Keynote as a QuickTime movie and pull this into FCP. I can then manually cut the one sequence where I need to without losing the transitions. What I would do is record the audio for a section and then adjust that clip's length in the timeline to match the audio length.
Is this the best way to go about it?
Also, when exporting the Keynote to QT, what's the best format to bring it back into FCP? I have already tried exporting in DV and this seems to give good results when played back through QT, but will re-encoding into MPEG2 when I burn the DVD lose more quality than it needs to? Is there a better codec for the initial export from Keynote?
In fact, am I completely off my trolley using this approach? I'm very happy to be pointed in a totally (better) direction.
Many thanks.
David

Hi toggles --
A few months ago, I came across an article entitled "Prepare Your Used Mac for Resale." I thought it was pretty good. See if it helps you: http://www.informit.com/guides/content.asp?g=mac&seqNum=76&rl=1
-- JDee

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