Captioning in Keynote

I have a video that I would like to add captions to. I have the video one one slide. Do I need to just do text boxes one on top of the other and then time the individual builds? I have a bunch of text boxes all on one slide. There must be an easier way, thanks.

do you have the original video? it might be easier to import the video file itself into imovie, add the subtitles there, save the video then import into keynote. so the subtitles are in the video itself and not on the keynote slide. hope this helps. D

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Eliminate header/captions box on Keynote widget

I have just completed the near final draft of my first iBook.
Among a few vexing issues I have yet to resolve is this one:
I have embedded over a dozen photo-gallery keynote widgets, all as thumbnails. I have eliminated the headers and captions on all of them, but I cannot eliminate the header/caption box around the thumb picture, nor can I make that box exactly fit the thumbnail image. I need to wrap text about the thumbnail images, but the wrap goes instead around the too-large header/caption box and this causes some bad appearance problems. I can deselect the wrap on that box and select wrap for just the thumbnail image, but then it doesn't wrap at all, despite the fact "wrap" is checked in the inspector. The text just falls behind the image.
Can I eliminate that troublesome box? Or is there some way to at least deselect the box and put a wrap that works directly on the thumbnail image?

Luc, I cannot really give you any examples on Amazon, as the only books I was looking for were iBA books. No matter how good, how creative, a print book would have been of no help to me.
I suppose if there is an example on Amazon of how I like to work photos and words together it would be my own work, so I will give you a link to my book, Gift of the Whale. Yet, if Gift of the Whale had been done by someone else and I had set out to do the book I have been working on and had found it, it would have been of no help to me. Not even an iPad app photo book, some of which are amazing, would be of help because they are not made with iBA tools.
After I get a couple of additional iBA books under my belt, I plan to redo Gift of the Whale as an iBook. And when I do, even with the experience of few a iBooks behind me and a clear vision of where I want to go, I will launch another search of iBA books to see if I can get additional ideas about how to use iBA in a creative. My initial experience at asking people for any recommendations was so negative, the response so insulting and condescending, I will be hesitant to ask again, but I probably will.
I think my first book is a little crude and rough, but that's how you learn. Not by mastering first and then making, but by actual making and mastering as you go along. I could work on it another year, easy, but it has a Christmas theme and I want to get it out there now.
As to whether or not I was pushing in an unfriendly fashion, I don't really think so. It is very true that you can examples of where I came on feeling very irritated at a problem I had encounter in iBA, but never unfriendly toward someone who made an honest effort to help, rather than to lecture. I would say that at least 25 percent, maybe more, of the time and effort I have put toward this first iBA book has been put toward trying to solve the many problems of iBA. As I solve them, I see the logic behind some of the processes but there are a lot of problems that strike me as having unnecessarily been built into the system and the only way out is to come up with workarounds.
Luc, I cannot really give you any examples on Amazon, as the only books I was looking for where iBA books. No matter how good, how creative, a print book would have been of no help to me.
I suppose if there is an example on Amazon of how I like to work photos and words together it would be my own work, so I will give you a link to my book, Gift of the Whale. Yet, if Gift of the Whale had been done by someone else and I had set out to do the book I have been working on and had found this, it would have been of no help to me. Not even an iPad app photo book, some of which are amazing, would be of help because they are not made with iBA tools.
After I get a couple of additional iBA books under my belt, I plan to redo Gift of the Whale as an iBook. And when I do, even with the experience of few a iBooks behind me and a clear vision of where I want to go, I will launch another search of iBA books, because I may learn from what someone else has done. My initial experience at asking people for any recommendations was so negative, the response so insulting and condescending, I will be hesitant to ask again, but I probably will.
As to whether or not I was pushing in an unfriendly fashion, I don't really think so. It is very true that you can find examples of where I came on feeling very irritated at a problem I had encounter in iBA, but I have never been unfriendly toward someone who made an honest effort to help, rather than to lecture and insult.
I would say that at least 25 percent, maybe more, of the time and effort I have put toward this first iBA book has been put toward trying to solve the many problems of iBA. As I solve them, I see the logic behind some of the processes but there are a lot of problems that strike me as having unnecessarily been built into the system and the only way out is to come up with workarounds.
http://www.amazon.com/Gift-Whale-Inupiat-Bowhead-Tradition/dp/1570611637/ref=sr_ 1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1408581820&sr=8-1&keywords=Gift+of+the+Whale

How to export a large, high-rez Keynote'08 file as a QT movie?

I have used Keynote '08 to create a 1.6GB presentation, 1024 x 768 resolution, 940 slides of stills and animation clips, navigatable hyperlinks on every slide. It plays and navigates perfectly well in Play mode.
The presentation would of course be most effective if I could export it as a single QuickTime movie - 1024 x 768 resolution. But I have not been able to do this, either on my own or with help from Apple employees at an Apple retail outlet. (I cannot remember whether we tested Keynote '08 or '09 at the store)
The best I've been able to accomplish is to break the presentation into ten parts and export them as ten QuickTime movies at a reduced resolution of 800 x 600.
I've been able to create a full length single movie - but only as a web-sized lowest quality (H.264) QT movie - in which the hyperlinks work but the slide captions cannot be clearly read.
This interactive education presentation would be so much more effective if I could export it as a single high-rez QT movie.
So I am searching for a solution to this problem, if it indeed exists using Keynote '08 or '09, and feedback/educated opinions from Keynote users who have encountered the same problem. Is Apple aware of this limitation? Might Apple address it in Keynote '10 whenever that arrives? Is there additional software available that could solve this problem?
TIA

I want to be able to watch my 1080p work on Apple TV in the best quality.
The TV device is limited to max of 720p playback. While the TV1 did have an option to scale content for output as 1080i or 1080p, this was discontinued with the TV2 since 1080p native HDTVs will automatically rescale the negotiated input as/if needed for proper viewing. To maintain compatibility with the TV1 device, Apple presets will export 720p content only if the source file is larger than or equal to these dimensions and the frame rate is 25 fps or less. They will not allow you upscale smaller dimension files. Thus, your 1080p source files will be exported as either 720p24 or 540p30 files depending on the source frame rate. If you have an TV2 device and wish to ensure a 720p30 output, then use a free third-party app like MPEG Streamclip or HandBrake. Both have TV2 specific conversion options.

Use of Aperture captions

Although there are several posts about how to make iWeb use the caption field for a photo coming from Aperture, the help documentation clearly states that iWeb will use the caption field if it is populated. I made sure the caption field was populated but iWeb continues to use the filename. Is this truly a bug in iWeb or is the iWeb help documentation simply incorrect?

The following is listed as a "tip" item when "photo captions" is entered as a search in the iWeb help (see the last paragraph; there is more but I didn't include it as it was not relevant):
Tips on sharing photos from Aperture with iLife
Aperture 1.5 offers full-size previews of images that can be used with iLife and iWork '06 or later. Here are some tips on getting the most from it:
How to access images from Aperture in iLife and iWork
Make sure you have iLife and iWork '08, or the latest versions of the iLife and iWork '06 applications:
iPhoto 6.0.5
iMovie HD 6.0.3
iDVD 6.0.3
iWeb 1.1.2
GarageBand 3.0.4
Keynote 3.0.2
Pages 2.0.2
iTunes 7.0.1
To update from previous versions of the iLife and iWork '06 applications, from the Apple menu, choose Software Update.
You will also need to update to Aperture 1.5. If you have a previous version of Aperture installed, Software Update can also be used to update to version 1.5.
To browse Aperture images in iLife and iWork '06, you must first enable sharing in Aperture. Details can be found on pages 161-162 of the Aperture User Manual. To view the shared images in iLife or iWork:
Select the Media pane in one of the iLife/iWork applications.
Click the disclosure triangle next to the Aperture icon in the browser window.
Click the disclosure triangle next to Aperture Library to access images in Aperture's built-in Smart Albums or Smart Albums you have created at the Library level. To access images from specific projects, click the project's disclosure triangle. Click on the icon for individual albums or Smart albums within projects.
Handling of Stacked Images
When you browse Aperture images in the iLife/iWork Media pane, you may notice that there seem to be fewer images than expected available there. This is because only the pick or album pick image from each stack in Aperture is shared with iLife and iWork. When you browse images from an Aperture project or built-in Smart album, the pick image from each stack will be available. When you browse images from an Aperture album, then the album pick will be available. If there is no album pick specified, then the pick image will be used when browsing albums. Smart albums you create offer the option Ignore stack groupings. If this option is selected, then all images that meet the criteria for the Smart album will be available in the Media pane, regardless of stack pick status. If you find that you need access to more than one image from a stack in an iLife or iWork application, then drag the non-pick image from the stack in Aperture, or access it from a self-created Smart album. Note that it may take some time before changes made to stacks in Aperture will be reflected in the Media pane.
Labeling of Aperture images in the iLife/iWork Media pane
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Text Caption options not applied

Hi,
I'm trying to add a text caption with a transparent style.
however when I try to modify font, font size, or color no change is
being applied. If I switch to the Adobe Blue caption style I can
modify color, but not font size. Any idea why this is
happening?

Hi there
I happened across a weird issue just last night that was resolved by choosing a different ActionScript version. I'm wondering if you can try this to see if there is a change in behavior.
Click Edit > Preferences > Project > Publish Settings and whatever it's set to AS2 or AS3, try the other option and see if it changes your outcome.
Cheers... Rick
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Keynote 3: Transparent Animated GIF Problems

I've been trying to get an animated GIF with a transparent background to run in Keynote, but it's giving some disastrous results.
I produce the animation by rendering the frames as PNG (with alpha channel) in MegaPOV 1.2.1. Then I use the convert utility from ImageMagick 6.2.9 to make them into an animated GIF.
When I drop the animated GIF into Keynote 3.0.2, the first frame shows fine (with transparency and all). But when I animate it, the background goes red (the main color in this particular movie) and some trace of the previous frames stays. It seems like:
1. Rather than displaying the GIF frame-by-frame, each frame is getting layered onto the previous frames.
2. Keynote doesn't like the alpha channel for some reason.
Problem 1 is also present if I open the GIF in Preview (is that supposed to be the correct behavior of an animated GIF?). Problem 2 seems to be Keynote-specific.
Any suggestions for a work-around on this? The animated GIFs work fine if rendered without the alpha channel, but it'd look so much better with transparency!
iMac 2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Mac OS X (10.4.9)

MegaPOV doesn't have a GIF output option. The choices are PNG, Targa, PPM, and hdr (not familiar with that last one). I don't know if PPM even has alpha-capability.
So in some way, I have to convert PNG to GIF. The tools I have to do this are ImageMagick and Gimp. I tried them both, then viewed the results using several programs. Results are tabulated below -- (1) means that problem 1 from above was apparent (ie, parts of the previous frames were visible under the current frame); (2) means that problem 2 was visible (ie, the transparent parts took on some background color).
If I didn't know how to change the default white background in the program, I couldn't tell whether problem (2) occurred, since the movie made with Gimp had a white background in Keynote.
Using ImageMagick 6.2.9 to convert PNG->GIF and animate GIF:
* viewing with Safari 2.0.4 : (1), can't tell for (2)
* viewing with Preview 3.0.9 : (1), can't tell for (2)
* viewing with Firefox 2.0.0.3 : (1)
* viewing with Keynote 3.0.2 : (1), (2) -- alpha goes red
Using Gimp 2.2.11 to convert PNG->GIF and animate GIF:
* viewing with Safari : (1), can't tell for (2)
* viewing with Preview : (1), can't tell for (2)
* viewing with Firefox : (1)
* viewing with Keynote : (1), (2) -- alpha goes white
I only converted the first few frames using Gimp, since I was doing it by hand.
All of this makes me wonder whether I'm dreaming the impossible, since problem (1) is universally present. It also makes me pretty sure that problem (2) is Keynote-specific.
If there are any other tools that will convert/animate GIFs on a modern Mac, I'd love to hear about them. My UNIX-y tools seem to be failing me here. The Mac tools I remember from "back in the day" -- GIFBuilder and GIFConverter -- seem to have been abandoned around the beginning of Mac OS X. GIFBuilder won't even load my files, and GIFConverter still lacks alpha support in PNG.

Keynote and Tweetdeck notifications

I would like a twitter feed to appear during my keynote presentations. I've tried tweetdeck, but the notifications do not appear in front of the presentation (when in slideshow mode). Is there a way to force the notifications to appear on top? Incidently they do appear on top with powerpoint.
Cheers

Users can obtain the iWorks and iLife applications free, if they purchased a Mac after the beginning of October 2013.
Older Mac purchases require a paid purchase of these applications.

How can I share a Keynote show with a large audience using Outlook email?

I am working with a corporate client with a global employee audience of 7,000. They use Outlook as their email platform. Can I create an animated Keynote show and embed it into an Outlook email? So that the user opens the email note, and is either immediately presented with the animated show, or would click a play button to start the animated Keynote? Do I have to house the Keynote show on YouTube, or some other server?
There is no sound, only animation, and the entire show is approximately 75 seconds in length.
Thank you for any direction.

Note that any kind of file containing a slide show with multiple photos is going to be quite large, most likely, and thus is not really appropriate for e-mail. Many servers won't accept attachments beyond a certain size, many people operate with strict mailbox size limits, and so your message may never arrive at its destination. I'd encourage you to do something else. For example, I think you can create a movie file - possibly using iMovie, I'm not sure though. Do that and upload it to YouTube, then send people an e-mail invitation to view it. If desired, YouTube allows you to set it to be viewable only to those who are invited and not to the general public.

Is there a way to create a CSS image gallery with caption?

Hi everyone,
Ive been using the disjoint rollover, but I only have one
thing that I want to add to it—a caption right underneath an
image.
Besides using that Project Seven plug-in, is there a way to
create an image gallery without using layers? Or is layers the only
way to do it? All I want (words of doom, huh?) is a thumbnail to be
able to switch and image and add a caption to it. Can anyone point
me in the right direction? Or is that Project Seven plug-in deal my
best bet? What about Set Text of Layer in DW.
Oh yeah, Im still using DW with CSS sprinkled in..any help?
Thanks in advance.
-C

> Besides using that Project Seven plug-in, is there a way
to create an
> image
> gallery without using layers?
Of course.
> What about Set Text of Layer in DW.
That would do it, and it's not necessary that the layer stay
a layer after
you have done it, either. I do this frequently - make a
layer, apply the
behavior, and then remove the position:absolute from the div,
and place it
where I want it.
See the demo here -
http://dreamweaverresources.com/tutorials/settextoflayer.htm
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news:eus555$lac$[email protected]..
> Hi everyone,
>
> Ive been using the disjoint rollover, but I only have
one thing that I
> want to
> add to it?a caption right underneath an image.
> Besides using that Project Seven plug-in, is there a way
to create an
> image
> gallery without using layers? Or is layers the only way
to do it? All I
> want
> (words of doom, huh?) is a thumbnail to be able to
switch and image and
> add a
> caption to it. Can anyone point me in the right
direction? Or is that
> Project
> Seven plug-in deal my best bet? What about Set Text of
Layer in DW.
>
> Oh yeah, Im still using DW with CSS sprinkled in..any
help?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> -C
>

I am making a calendar in iPhoto, picking photos from a folder, let's call it "2011 Pics," in iPhoto. After arranging all the photos and captions I decided I wanted to insert a new photo -- one that was not in "2011 Pics." So I inserted it into the folder

Add new photo to existing calendar folder in iPhoto
I am making a calendar in iPhoto, picking photos from a folder, let's call it "2011 Pics," in iPhoto. After arranging all the photos and captions I decided I wanted to insert a new photo -- one that was not in "2011 Pics." So I inserted it into the folder, but the picture does not show up on the scrolling menu of pictures at the left of the calendar-making page. This happened last year and in frustration I started all over again. But surely there is a way to add a new picture to a calendar that is already laid out.

Yes, the Old Master file has a folder for each year where I find all photos from that specific year. I am attaching a screen shot of the file.
In the meantime i have managed to download all photos (it did not download any video files though in mpg, avi, 3gp, m4v,mp4 and mov format) to a new iphoto library. Unfortunately the photos are quite mixed and often doubled up. I ma considering to purchase iphoto library which checks all duplicates in iphoto. this will save me a lot of time. What do you think?

Can you automatically downsample images in Keynote without cropping?

Hello All,
I am trying to get Keynote to perform what I think is a pretty basic task, but can't figure out how to make it happen. I am an art teacher and frequently show my students slide shows made from a large database of .jpgs I have amassed. Most of the .jpgs were scanned at high resolutions - roughly 2500px on the long edge. They are made at this size to anticipate improvements in projector resolution in the future. The slideshows I make are at XGA (1024x768) because this is the native resolution of the school's projectors.
I want to be able to drop large numbers of slides into a slideshow and have Keynote to automatically downsample them to fit on an XGA slide without cropping the image. I currently have "Reduce placed images to fit on slides" checked in the General Preferences. This does downsample the images, but does so in a way that fills the slide with the image and crops on one dimension depending on the aspect ratio of the image. So for example, with the two Kertesz images below, the top and bottom is cropped off the first one and the sides off of the second one. Keynote scales it down so that the image fills the entire slide rather than scaling down so the entire image can fit on the slide.
FIG 1a
FIG 2a
I can then go in and resize the image manually in the metrics tab of the inspector so that the full image is represented in each slide (Fig 1b and 2b below). I have to type in the dimension that is being cropped (768 in Fig 1, 1024 in Fig 2). This further downsamples the image fitting the entire image on the slide which is desired. Doing this for each slide can be burdensome though if I am showing slideshows of 100 or so images. My question is if there is a way to get the results below automatically. I would like to drop multiple images into my slideshow and have it be downsampled so that the entire image fits on the slide. Does anyone know how to make Keynote do this? Thanks.
Fig 1b
Fig 2b

In the layer of interest make sure the vector mask is selected. Then in the Masks panel adjust the feather slider to an amount that looks right.
Paulo

Is there a way to add multiple images at the same time to Keynote 6.0?

I just brought keynote after searching online about adding multiple images to a presentation all in one go - I couldn't do this on the powerpoint version I was using but there were multiple references on google to being able to do this on keynote. I purchased it and now can't get it to work! Any ideas anyone? Thanks

Do you mean like dragging in multiple images and having one image go on each slide? If so, you just drag the images into the Slide List on the left instead of onto the slide. From this prior post.
https://discussions.apple.com/message/9068283#9068283

Did you know: Photoshop and Keynote

I never knew this, maybe you have....maybe you have not. So here I go:
I always converted my Photoshop designs to JPG or PNG by using the export options in Photoshop. Not only did that require more work and time, it also poluted my system with lots of extra files.
I was working with Keynote and by accident placed a photoshop file instead of the JPG. While I was waiting for the error message, it never showed up. Keynote just handled the Photoshop file and converted it to a PNG by itself. Wow...quitte amazed by this.
Anyway, thought I had to share this.

Thanks, Gary and Dick. I didn't know that but by finding this little gem all by myself...It's like being on an adventure and finding a cave full of gold. No longer only a technical feature but an experience I'll never forget.... Yikes, have...to...snap back to real life!

PSE 8 - Archive on external hard drive including captions and tags

I started my above discussion some time ago with Mark and due to the lateness in my responding the case appears to have been closed. However I am hoping that someone can comment on my intended course of action, see below, based on his suggestions?
Just recapping having successfully migrated my Photoshop Album 2 catalog including captions across to PSE 8 and now my objective is to move my entire PSE 8 catalog to an external hard drive leaving only thumbnail view to remain. Obviously I am anxious to avoid any catastrophe and therefore would appreciate comment on the correctness of the steps involved. I have arrived at these by simply modifying Mark's original steps. Please correct where necessary.
1) Connect my external hard drive where I want to copy the files too. Make sure I can 'see' it in Explorer
2) Open Photoshop Elements 8; click the Organize button on the Welcome screen
3) Displayed in my welcome screen is my entire catalog with each album matching in title and file (photo) content to the folder title and file (photo) content in the folder location displayed to the left of screen.
4) Go to the File menu, and select 'Write Keyboard Tag and Propertise Info to Photo'. In my case most but not all files (photos only) will have tag and caption data. Rather than attempting to select the files that I wish to embed tag and caption metadata does Organiser have a global 'search and embed instruction' so that when it gets a 'match' on .jpg number it will embed automatically?
5) After completion, I go to the File menu, and select 'Copy/Move to Removable Disk...' click the MOVE button to move the files from their current location to my nominated external hard drive.
6) Click the Next button, and select the external drive in order to copy the files to the drive.
Can you confirm?
* On completion of the above steps my external hard drive will allow access to full resolution versions of the file from Photoshop Elements including any existing caption or tag data organised identically to my PSE 8 catalog (only one catalog)?
* Am I correct in assuming that also all original photos from my laptop will be removed and if not can be deleted given their existence on my external hard drive?
* Is the data which now resides on the external hard drive capable of being read on any other PC which may not have Elements software?
Neil

I have 2 laptops an aging Dell and new HP. I have successfully followed your
instruction and deleted 1 & 2 below on both.
The Dell PSE 8 now has:
C:\Program Files\Adobe\PSE 8 (240Mb)
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Elements Organizer 8.0 (502Mb)
C:\Program Files\Adobe\PhotoshopElements_8_WWEFDJ.EXE (1.17Gb)
C:\Program Files\Adobe\ PhotoshopElements_8_WWEFDJ.7Z (1.06Gb)
Giving a total of 2,972Gb
The HP PSE 8 has:
C:\Program Files\Adobe\PSE 8 (240Mb)
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Elements Organizer 8.0 (502Mb)
C:\Program Files\Adobe\PhotoshopElements_8_WWEFDJ.EXE (1.17Gb)
C:\Program Files\Adobe\ PhotoshopElements_8_WWEFDJ.7Z (1.06Gb)
But a total of 3,894 and I am unable to identify where the additional 1Gb
resides. In Documents & Settings\All Users\Application Data\Adobe\Elements
Organizer is 120Mb. I have attempted to delete this but lost the catalog in
the process so had to restore from the Recycle bin and it now appears to
have reconnected correctly. Frankly I can live with these large file sizes
but would like an opinion on their potential adverse impact at sometime in
the future.
I am not sure whether I need to start a new thread for "Are there any known
bugs in PSE 8 surrounding the burning of discs" I have attempted to burn
onto a new CD-RW my slideshow. The process of burning appeared to work but
the written to CD does not play on the DVD. I have also saved the slideshow
as a PDF. I can't recall exactly how but in selecting an incorrect option I
no longer have visibility of projects in 'Folder View'. The projects are a
single slideshow and PDF copy of the same. How do I regain visibility?
Neil

Pdf created with Mathematica 9 misses font in Preview and Keynote

Dear all,
I have installed a new font called 'Arev Sans' in Regular, Italic and Bold face. It works fine in Keynote and Mathematica and all other programs so far. Now I did an Export of a plot in mathematica and tried to look at the created pdf with Preview. It turns out, that only the Italic and Bold fonts of Arev Sans are shown in the correct way. The Regular face is substituted by another font. Unfortunately this is the same if I try to include the plot in Keynote, which is bad because I want to use the Arev font in my presentation... However, if I open the pdf with Acrobat Readrer the fonts are ok.
Does anyone have a suggestion what to do? Would be great!

I did as you suggested and there are no errors after the valdiation with Font Book.
Yes Regular is listed against Arev.
Actually, the font works in Keynote and also in Mathematica. The problem occurs just when I do the Export from Mathematica and include the created pdf into Keynote (or likewise open it with Preview). It seems to me that there is an issue with the font coming from Mac Os...

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