Front Row Menu effects

Hi all,
I enjoy using keynote 3 to produce presentations etc for clients, however does anyone know if it is possible to reproduce the menu's in front row, specifically the movies one where the film is playing to the left and the menu is on the right hand side?
Or is this an in-house apple only feature?
I am aware of the imovie templates which come close, but arent very user friendly in the sense u can only edit content rather than the template.
many thanks tommy

I'd say you're going to have to use something like After Effects to create this effect. You can get CLOSE to it with the reflection transition in Keynote (between slides) but it's clearly not the same as a rotating window of perspective movies.

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Hi Hodgeko, and a warm welcome to the forums!
Could be many things, we should start with this...
"Try Disk Utility
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2. When your computer finishes starting up from the disc, choose Disk Utility from the Installer menu. (In Mac OS X 10.4 or later, you must select your language first.)
Important: Do not click Continue in the first screen of the Installer. If you do, you must restart from the disc again to access Disk Utility.
3. Click the First Aid tab.
4. Click the disclosure triangle to the left of the hard drive icon to display the names of your hard disk volumes and partitions.
5. Select your Mac OS X volume.
6. Click Repair. Disk Utility checks and repairs the disk."
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214
Then Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, reboot when it finishes.
The usual reason why updates fail or mess things up, or things don't load/run, is if Permissions are not fixed before & after every update, with a reboot... you may get a partial update when the installer finds it doesn't have Permissions to change one obscure little part of the OS, leaving you with a mix of OS versions.
Some people get away without Repairing Permissions for years, some for only days.
If Permissions are wrong before applying an update, you could get mixed OS versions, if Directory is the slightest messed up, who knows!
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The combo update for PowerPC-based Macs...
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*I set German as the default track*. So far so good. It works on iTunes, on my iPod and on Quicktime. On each of these devices and players the German Audio Track is played by default. I can optionally choose between English and French. That's actually fantastic.
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