Best way to record narration for 200+ slideshow?

Hi All,
I've got a long narrative to record to a complex slideshow of over 200 slides with transitions.
What are your suggestions?
If it's done in Screenflow- is there a loss of resolution/ quality? Another alternative I thought of was recording the narrative for each slide in Audacity and then attaching it to each slide.
I want to export the whole to Quicktime/ Flash when done.
System: Macbook 2.16GHz running 10.5.3 and iWork08.
Cheers

<<I guess I could time the narration for each bullet point (build) on the slide, and then manually set the build time accordingly.>>
That's about it. Setting an appropriate Delay for automatic Builds is what I had in mind. However, it is important to remember that this often will "slip" slightly during playback - especially if the presentation is designed on one computer and played on another because the playback speed (duration) of all Builds and Transitions is dependent on the processor speed of the playback computer.
It is not a perfect solution, but until Apple fixes all of the various audio deficiencies in Keynote, we will have to live with the various work-arounds that are proposed in this forum.
Good luck.

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