Import keynote to imovie

Question

Hi
I would like to do keynote slides with animation and put them in an imovie.
What is the best format to export from keynote to retain the animations in imovie?
Thanks

Answer 1

I don't know whether this is the same for an earlier version of Keynote, but according to Keynote Help (from iWork 8), you export as a quicktime movie:
+Creating a QuickTime Movie+
+You can turn your slideshow into a QuickTime movie that includes all animated transitions and object builds.+
+You can create an interactive movie that viewers can advance at their own pace, or you can create a self-playing movie, with transitions and builds timed just as you set them.+
+To create a QuickTime movie of your slideshow:+
+Choose File > Export and then click QuickTime.+
+Choose an option from the Playback Uses pop-up menu:+
+Manual Advance: Viewers advance through the slideshow by clicking the mouse or Play (in the QuickTime controls), or by pressing the Space bar on the keyboard.+
+Hyperlinks Only: Viewers advance through the slideshow by clicking hyperlinks.+
+Recorded Timing: If you recorded your slideshow (as described in Adding Narration), your slideshow movie plays using the timing you recorded.+
+Fixed Timing: Viewers can’t control how the slideshow advances; the slideshow plays using the timing you specify in the next step.+
+If you choose Fixed Timing, specify how long slides appear and how long it takes to complete object builds by typing values in the Slide Duration and Build Duration fields.+
+Slide Duration: How long each fully built slide remains on the screen after the last object build is complete.+
+Build Duration: The number of seconds between the beginning of one build stage and the next in each object build. There is no delay between the moment a slide first appears on the screen and the first stage of an object build.+
+If you choose Fixed Timing, you can choose an option from the Repeat pop-up menu:+
+None: The slideshow plays only once.+
+Loop: The slideshow plays continuously.+
+Back and Forth: The slideshow plays through forward, then backward to the beginning, and so on.+
+To make the slideshow appear on the whole screen rather than in a window, select “Enter full screen mode when opened.”+
+Choose a playback quality and file size from the Formats pop-up menu:+
+Full Quality, Large: Preserves the best playback quality, but these movies are large and are therefore more difficult to transfer through email or the web.+
Then, place that QuickTime movie into your iMovie.