Contolling QuickTime movies during presentation

I need to be able to control how the movie goes during a presentation, like going step by step or stop at some point.
I did not find how to put the control buttons available in the inspector (when building the Keynote-presentation) inside the slide.
Has anayone succeed to do that ?
Bernard

QuickTime CONTROL may be better supported in PPT, but movies themselves are MUCH better in Keynote. You can stack them up and change the transparency and it'll actualy play. I have no idea what PPT will do with more than one movie on a slide, and forget transparency at all. On top of that Keynote supports movies with an alpha channel, so you can use animated objects made with an app like Motion and they will play in Keynote with a transparent background, floating on your slide. Pretty cool stuff.

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2:30 QuickTime Movie in Presentation

Greetings,
We are using Keynote 08 as an electronic kiosk. When we add the movie it will not play the entire 2:30 before transitioning to the next slide. Only see an option for :60...how do you instruct Keynote to play the entire 2:30 QuickTime movie? We can trick Keynote with extra slides or objects etc., seems there should be an easier way to do this.
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The Original Poster wants to set up a non-interactive kiosk with Keynote '08, so the presentation has to play by itself with no user interaction. Because of this, all of the transitions between the slides will be set to Automatic.
In Keynote '08, I haven't found a way to set up an Automatic transition such that a movie of 2 minutes and 30 seconds will play completely and then transition to the next slide. You can set a delay of up to 10 minutes, but the time isn't locked to real time, so sometimes the transition will happen sooner, sometimes later. However, if you have had some success, please share!
Thanks!
Message was edited by: Kyn Drake

After making a photopresentation and saved it as a quicktime mov with music i lost all tittles in the presentation, what have i done wrong?

after making a photopresentation and saved it as a quicktime mov with music i lost all tittles in the presentation, what have i done wrong?

Please, help me I have now 10 copies of my Photoslide show with music but still without the tittles(text) I added to the pictures. I used the original file name to add my text. Who know,s how to solve this problem or o I have to start again.
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Presenting a Quicktime movie on a secondary display

Has anyone figured out how to present a Quicktime movie with applescript on another display?
supposedly you can do it with
present movie 1 display N
where N is the display number. However, no matter what number I type for N, I the movie always presents itself on the main display. I notice that if I happen to have the Quicktime movie already open, and I move it into the secondary display BEFORE running the script, it will play on that secondary display, also independently of the value of N.
Is this a bug? Anyone know a workaround?
Thanks
Jeffrey Tavis
Posted: Oct 11, 2006 6:10 PM
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=3321461&#3321461
Jeffery,
sorry for the belated response. I haven't been on these 'boards in over a year.
While researching another matter several years ago, I stumbled across a possible answer to your question. It was written by none other than Brennan Young, I cannot claim credit for his expertise.
here is what he said:
_*Scripting For The Screen*_
Now let�s try a slightly more interesting example.
tell application "QuickTime Player"
activate
present movie 1
end tell
This script will play the frontmost movie with a black background filling the screen. The resolution and update frequency of the monitor will also change, exactly as if "present movie" had been chosen from the Movie menu. The "activate" command ensures that QuickTime Player is the frontmost application when this happens. (See what happens when you leave it out.) "Activate" also launches the application if it is not already running.
It�s worth having a look at the dictionary entry for this command:
_present: Present a movie_
present reference
-- the movie to present
scale half/normal/double/screen/current
-- the scale at which to present the movie
mode normal/slide show
-- the mode in which to present the movie
display small integer
-- the display on which to present the movie
The command itself and all the named parameters are marked in bold. Optional parameters are shown in square brackets and, being named parameters, they can be in any order. Where there are multiple constant arguments, these are separated by a slash. If the argument should be of a given type, such as "small integer," this is specified too. After each parameter is a comment explaining what it represents.
With this in mind, we might want to present the movie full-screen, and because I have the luxury of a second monitor, I can view it there using the "display" parameter. Here�s how it would look:
tell application "QuickTime Player"
activate
present movie 1 scale screen display 2
end tell
(full article here)
http://web.archive.org/web/20011024184603/workingmac.com/article/39.wm

I've seen this question posted a few times with no answers. I thought I'd share a workaround. It's not perfect, but it does the job. If you move the window of the movie to the secondary display before presenting it, it will present in that display.
In my case, it's something like
tell application "QuickTime Player"
open my_movie
set bounds of window 1 to {2800, 1000, 3653, 1480}
present movie 1
end tell

How can I get a Quicktime movie to play over a background slideshow?

I created a slideshow in PowerPoint 2003 a few years ago and would like to update it using Keynote '09. PowerPoint had a "play once" and a "Play in foreground" option that let the movie play in the same spot continuously until the last of the 21 slides are displayed. The slides were timed with background graphics and lyrics that matched the song being sung in the Quicktime movie.
It's a song my daughter wrote and performed and it's something I think could be vastly improved using Keynote's amazing transitions, etc.
When I tried simply importing the presentation from PowerPoint, the video will start to play but when the second slide is displayed, the video is no longer visible. I tried to set Keynote to play it on all slides, but that just restarts the audio to a "row row your boat" round kind of thing. The video doesn't play on the remaining slides.
Is there a way to make this happen?
Thanks!

That's a shame. It takes some tweaking, but PowerPoint can do this. I know it's not something that is needed all the time, but it's something I've needed on a few occasions. I wonder how well the timing would work out if I broke the video up into sub clips and simply assigned a clip to each slide? It's a lot more work and I suspect I'll pick up some clips and pops during the slide changes.
Keynote is still far better at what it does than PowerPoint, but do I ever wish it could do this so I could really show it off to people.
Thanks for the reply!

Keynote Autohiding during presentation

Lately I've been having a problem with Keynote autohiding while I'm in the middle of a presentation. I know there is a feature where if you press the H key during a presentation Keynote Hides, but when it does that on its own in the middle of a presentation it's very uncool. Some of the slides have quicktime video embedded, and when it happens during one of those slides, the video restarts from the beginning when I unhide keynote. So annoying.
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I just had this happen on a presentation tonight.
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Issues exporting QuickTime movie

Hello there,
I am working on a video project that includes HD video and still images. When I export my project to a QuickTime movie (either compressed or not) it always shows some kind of really strange jumps repeats one or the other image of the same sequence, its like a "hickup", or shows a pixelated image for a second before parts of the video play. I realize is only with the video, not with the images. And it happens always in the same place.
If you could take a look at this example and tell me what you think, or what the problem could be I would be very glad to hear from you!
http://www.visionsofthewild.com/video/ArticTrailer_Schulz.mov
Thank you!!

If you could take a look at this example and tell me what you think, or what the problem could be I would be very glad to hear from you!
Stepping through the content, I see both the "skip back" (hiccup) and the pixellation you mentioned. In the first case, a number of the frames used during the transition are repeated when the transition finishes. As to the "pixellation," it looks as if sub-block decoding was interrupted before completion and render/display prematurely. Both appear to only be present during very short cross-dissolve transitions between video segments. Not sure if they are being generated by the transition effect software alone or in combination with the reduced frame rate, low data rate, and/or possible "B-framing" of content. (Not knowing the settings used, it is difficult to analyze specifics here.) In addition, I also noted you have "green fringing" which is due to the "odd pixel" dimensions used (600x337). Suggest you try something like 608x342 or 598x336 to see if you can eliminate it. (I.e., most efficient encoding occurs when H.264 dimensions are divisible by 16 but using dimensions divisible by 2 will usually help here. Optimum encoding dimensions and most exact aspect ratio dimensions intersect at 768x432 or 512x288.)

More on QuickTime movie autoplay problem

I am trying to understand what is going on with the QuickTime movies that feature progressive load, and autoplay... as in they are loading, but they are not autoplaying on ANY of my machines, where this used to work just fine before when the same movies were hosted on pages created with .mac homepage.
I have a bunch of movies on my website, nearly a gig worth. When I got iLife, I wanted to recreate the movie pages using iWeb. I went to my iDisk, and simply copied the folder of web movies down from the Movie directory on iDisk to a local folder. All of these movies were compressed using H.263, and featured progressive loading, play immediately, etc. This feature WORKED when the movies were on Homepage.
So I get into iWeb, make my movie pages, and load these movies into the pages via the media browser. I upload the movies using iWeb's publish button.
AND when visiting the pages, I am given a big blue Q, with no indication of what is going on until after the movie is completely loaded. No autoplay, no quickstart, nothing, despite the fact that the local QuickTime settings indicate that I want to have these things play as they download.
Even when the movies are totally loaded, one must still click the play button to get them to start.
There is something very strange happening in between taking the source movie, copying it into the iWeb project, and uploading it. The result is that fast play during loading doesn't seem to work anymore.
One user gave a procedure for fixing this, but it does not seem to remedy the situation. I have tried copying the original movie to my local drive, re-exporting it with the appropriate settings for fast start, copy it back to the proper iDisk folder, and still no autoplay during download.
Is this a bandwidth problem of .Mac? Is this an issue with the movie file being tweaked by iWeb? Any ideas?

I don't use Homepage or iWeb, or even my iDisk, like most users. Probably not as Apple intended, too.
I create a page the "old fashioned" way. Hand coding the html files.
Why have your nice movie file shoved (and scaled) to fit into a template? Why not have some more control over its playback features?
The first part of my hand coding is to use "blank" pages. Black or white backgrounds (color if you wish) and a display to take advantage of the newer video codecs.
I export using H.264 at 320X240 size to keep the file size low. By hand coding I can display these same files at 640X480 or even 800X600 in my Web pages.
Changing the html code from scale="aspect" to scale="tofit" and editing the dimensions used in the code to these new numbers is an easy fix.
Some of your current 100MB movies could be remade (from the original source files to preserve visual quality) into 10 to 20MB H.264 320X240 (or even smaller if you want to use the template pages) movies.
We all win! Faster uploads and downloads. Free up valuable iDisk space!
Another neat trick about hand coding is that you get to use the full set of features found in modern browsers and QuickTime. Many of my pages use "Presentation" settings and call the QT Player app instead of the browser plug-in. This allows you to display your movies "Full Screen".
http://homepage.mac.com/kkirkster/B/
A full screen display of a file under 3MB's.
There are our iDisks! And they should reflect our work (not Apple's templates).

Quicktime Movie compression question

This is a G5 using 10.5.8 and Final Cut Pro 5.1.4.
I'd like to submit a how-to video to a contest, and the maximum allowable size is 500 MB. My movie is presently three times that size. Is there any way I can compress a QT movie to a smaller size without too much loss of quality, or do I have to just keep editing and chopping away at the video until I get it down to one-third the length it is now? I'm afraid I'll lose too much how-to information if I do that.
I exported the 7 min. 26 sec. video as a QuickTime movie to see what size file it was, and it came out 1.58 Gigabytes.
Under Export, I see that there are also options to export to Compressor or Using QT Conversion. Can anyone tell me how, or where to find out how, to export this video at its present length, but as a smaller file, without losing too much quality? The contest will accept a variety of video formats, but when I converted the project to AVI or MP4 (Using QT Player) the quality got really bad, with a lot of artifacts, halos, etc.
Any advice appreciated.
Tom

Thanks Ben--it looks like it will take care of things. I note that this method shrinks down the QT viewing window and cuts down on the number of frames per second, but the quality isn't reduced too much. By doing that I will be able to send them the full 7.5 minutes of my video, reduced to a file size of about 450 MB, down from 1.58 GB.
This how-to contest asks you to send them your video over the Internet, but I don't know whether they're viewing and judging the videos on a computer or not. If they're not, then they're going to be viewing mine in a pretty small window on whatever monitor or TV they use, but it still beats chopping the video down to practically nothing so that I could send it to them in full quality.
Thanks much for taking the time to help me out.
Best wishes,
Tom

How to export quicktime movie?

I was wondering how I can export a quicktime movie (camcorder film) to a smaller size but that can also be played on both Mac and PC computers? I tryed to export a couple time using encoding such as MPEG-4 but the movie accually was much smaller to view than the original and the second time I tryed to encode it at a bigger size, the movie played at the same sze as the original but at a lower quality because it was stretched.
Can anyone help me with this. I just want to export and save a quicktime movie into a playble formate for both mac and windows and also not taking up too much disk space either. Thank you.
Dorian Oddi

One could write a book (I did) that explains what all the codecs do and where and when to use them.
You need only need to know where the file will be viewed and its source format.
As Rick has pointed out, most new digital cameras capture in DV (Digital Video) and they are nearly instantly ready for software editing (like iMovie). QuickTime Pro can also edit the .dv files.
Once you determine where the file will be viewed (the Web for example) you'll get an understanding of methods to "compress" the file to fit the planned playback.
Three major factors that reduce the file size:
The new dimensions (720X480 DV files) to Web 320X240 (DV uses rectangular pixels).
Reduce the "frame rate". If the source was 30 frames per second you can usually remove half of them (15fps). Use more fps if the source has lots of motion.
The codecs used. Compressor-decompressor is handled by the delivery format (.mov or .mp4). Some are more efficient and offer better quality when enlarged during playback. MPEG-4 is the most modern and will soon become the next generation of DVD (currently MPEG-2).
This is where your question can only be answered by you. The quality can be adjusted (some codecs offer "sliders"; good better best while others allow you to set a data rate) and only you know what is acceptable.
Rick suggests a "one minute" export and I agree. Use various settings and data rates and use your eyes to decide what is acceptable.
Don't forget that part of your capture was audio. If your camera captures only mono formats making the export into stereo does nothing but double the size of the audio track. The Advanced Audio Codec (AAC) format found in MPEG-4 exports does a great job of reducing the file size. You can control these settings at export, too.

How can I update a quicktime movie placed in Keynote, that has been modified outside of Keynote??

HI! I really like Keynote for quicktime playback during a tv/film shoot, and use it frequently on set.
Media assets change frequently though, and it would be nice if the movies I place would update along with the external source.
How can this happen in Keynote? Seems like even if you save the file without copying audio/video into document, it still somehow references the initial placed movie.
Thanks for your help solving this problem, would be great if this app worked like every other app that imports external media.

That's a shame. It takes some tweaking, but PowerPoint can do this. I know it's not something that is needed all the time, but it's something I've needed on a few occasions. I wonder how well the timing would work out if I broke the video up into sub clips and simply assigned a clip to each slide? It's a lot more work and I suspect I'll pick up some clips and pops during the slide changes.
Keynote is still far better at what it does than PowerPoint, but do I ever wish it could do this so I could really show it off to people.
Thanks for the reply!

How do I get Javascript or HTML to open a QuickTime movie as a slideshow?

I have turned a 320x240 pixel photo sequence into a QuickTime movie using the "File > Open Image Sequence ..." option. However, that required I specify an equal amount of time to display each photo.
Using the following JavaScript, I can, from within a webpage, play that QuickTime movie as a movie in another window by simply clicking on the link to it in the webpage:
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">

</SCRIPT>
But some photos need to be displayed for a longer time than others.
QuickTime 7.1.2 "View > Present Movie > Slideshow > Play" will play the movie as a slideshow -- the person looking at it has full control over how much time a photo is displayed before going to the next one.
My JavaScript allows the user to pause the movie and continue it at will, but if I can modify it to play the movie directly as a slideshow like QuickTime 7.1.2, please let me know how.
Thank you.
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QuickTime movie in Keynote 3 want to export Keynote as QT

So I have a Keynote presentation. It is mostly images but 3 slides play small Quicktime movies. Interviews I did on DV, converted to 320x240 using Sorenson V3 and IMA 4:1 audio. In Keynote 3.0, they now have controls. They play great.
But I need to export the presentation so others can use it without keynote.
The only option seems to be exporting it as as a Quicktime movie.
Actually, with trial and error, the Quicktimes in the Quicktime play great. BUT are missing controls!
So anyone viewing the interactive Quicktime from a CD-R has no choice but to watch each clip. Longest is 17 minutes so a pause or stop is an option that is needed.
Does anyone know how to get those QT controls (or at least stop or pause) into the movie inside the exported interactive Quicktime from Keynote?
Is there a 3rd party solution? I'm desperate.
Alternatively, if anyone knows how to do same but as a Flash file, that would be fine too.
This was problem in Keynote 2.0 as well. My presentation size is big enough.
Considering the convergence of audio and video all over Apple product line, I just don't get why this was not considered for the 3.0 update. I want to export my lectures for students to self run. I'm probably not the only university professor who shows video and would like Apple to deal with this ASAP.
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If you have Qt Pro, you can open the file and turn on a controller, then resave the file.

Help playing my quicktime movie on keynote

I have a movie on quicktime. It plays perfectly fine when played through quicktime.
I am making a presentation using keynote. I want to make one of my slides that movie. So I do exactly as I have been reading. Ok, so the movie is now on the slide, but all I see are the little white squares around it, no actual movie. Those same white squares that you get when your trying to move or select an item for edit. Anyways, I say well maybe it will play when I play my slide show. Still no movie. Sometimes I get a blank page when I get to the slide with the movie. Other times I get the actual control panal to play the movie, but yet not movie is playing regardless of how many times I rewind, and play etc.
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Apple Animation, 983 x 552, Millions+
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In the Inspector section find the Transitions controls. For that slide, select the delay time for the same length of time of the clip.
Not sure if that will solve it but it's worth a try. That's how I got my QT clip to play.
Good luck.

Putting a quicktime movie into keynote?

When I put a quicktime movie in to keynote it shows video controls in the raw set but when I export it to an interactive quicktime movie it does not show the video controls is there any way to show the videos controls?
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EDIT: The below answer is wrong. I just read again, No, you can't do this in Keynote. Sorry!
Ohh, I think I get it. When you export as a normal movie, the controller is turned on by default. When you export an interactive movie, the standard controller is turned off. To turn this on for interactive movies, you'd have to have QuickTime Pro, open the movie, do a command-J to open the properties, go into the Presentation tab and change "Movie Controller Type" from "None Movie Controller" to "Movie Controller".

Contolling QuickTime movies during presentation

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