Can Keynote animate hand-drawn tablet sketches?

Hello,
I was wondering if it was possibly to hook up a Wacom tablet and draw my slides in Keynote. I want to present slides with hand-drawn animations and audio in the same manner as Google's Chrome OS video presentations: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QRO3gKj3qw
Thanks in advance!
davy

I would agree, that video/animation was probably made with video editing software judging by some of the transitions. Do not dispair, you can get close to this using line drawings. I would use a lot of photoshop, and .png files as well as a lot of the disolve transitions to make things appear and disappear. You can now do some tweening using the magic transition in keynote 9.0. It would be close, would wow the PC crowd, but would not fool the CGI techs. But then how many of those are likely to see your presentation?

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