Keynote 3 and Flash Export

Did anything happen with this upgrade to make for better SWF/Flash exporting?
Thumbs up, Thumbs down?
Any progress?

It sounds from some reports that Apple turned off most or all of the transitions, and added the ability to embed mp3 audio (other formats don't work). Other than that I don't know yet.

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  • Keynote and Flash export. No sound in the flash file

    Oh well...
    Here I am again. I have recorded speech for my slide show as a narration and there is a sound file on every slide. The sound files are mp3s (Exported from Audacity as mp3 ID3v1). Come to playing the show and the sound doesn't play. All the builds still play correctly but sound there aint. How do I fix it?
    G5 iMac   Mac OS X (10.4.6)  

    That parameter just has to do with playback from your computer. From all the reading that I have done lately it seems that Flash 6 only supports 3 differnet type of sound files.
    Supports PCM, ADPCM and MP3 audio/sound playback for the speaker and headphone.
    http://www.flashdevices.net/2006/04/sony-psp-flash-player-6-supported.html
    This would be why all those other types of files that you put in a project wont export. Flash 6 doesn't support them. Also looking at the release notes (tucked away in the Macromedia/Adobe archives) Flash Player 6.0r40 and later supports MP3 files with ID3 v1.0 and v1.1 tags.
    http://www.adobe.com/support/flash/releasenotes/player/rn_6.html
    Now I tested my Flash file with ID3 v2.0 tags and if worked fine. I think it has something to do with give the taags to the player so the player can do something with them (check the link above). Also having flash player 9 might have something to do with it. Anyway the ID3 v 1.0 tags are more compatable with software than the v2.0 tags. So I would use v1.0 anyway. I think that is what iTunes/QT uses anyway.
    Also another thing that is weird about this whole saga is that I checked the Audio MIDI settings earlier in the piece. They were set to the correct setting. Audacity must have changed it back (of maybe something else did). But I did notice a little white noise when I did start playing my Audacity tracks (like a skip on a LP). Happens when the setting is changed. But the strange thing is that I have no idea what was causing it to change to 96000 Hz. I suppose it doesn't matter too much but rather that know that it happens. (I do remeber a time when a Flash file did it. I have a slow conection and I think that the player did something weird. That's another story)
    IT Toad
    G5 iMac Mac OS X (10.4.6)

  • Keynote and Flash CS3

    I have read the threads on lack of support for transparency in animated GIFs and QT Flash tracks. I just installed Adobe CS3 and iWork '08, and Keynote '08 seems willing to import Flash 9 files (although I have yet to try features not in Flash 5). There seems no way to specify transparency for the background in SWF, it is an option on export. Assuming the lack of support for transparency is fixed, is there hope for being able to import SWF 9 files to Keynote '08 and have them be transparent?

    Welcome to the discussions, Jeff.
    I don't think so. Since the Flash would be playing within QuickTime, and the problem is somewhere between Keynote's and QuickTime's interactions, that core problem would have to be resolved before transparencies would work in Keynote.
    However, if you get it to work, definitely post back to let us know! (By the way, you're right that the QuickTime support in Keynote for Flash can support ANY version Flash file as long as the file doesn't use any post Flash 5 features.)
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  • Keynote 08 Flash Export not compatible with Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro

    Hello
    Our company uses Keynote extensively for presentations. We also give presentations online using Adobe Acrobat Connect Professional (hosted, formerly known as Macromedia Breeze - <http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobatconnectpro/>). Where as it's a great environment for online seminars (best I've seen), it fails dramatically when you upload a looping Flash file created in Keynote. I first tried this in Keynote '06 and now in '08.
    When I tried in Keynote 06, the animation was three slides looping, synced to an audio track. When I tried in '08, it was one slide with (the new) animations looping over 20 seconds (or so) without a soundtrack.
    I have some contact with Adobe, and this issue has been sent to their engineering department, but they seem to think there's something funky about the format of the file that Keynote exports. I'm trying to gather more data for them to investigate with.
    Does anyone know what version of Flash Apple's export is most like? Do we have any specs on the file export format?
    Has anyone tried using Flash exports in other Flash-using online environments?
    Thanks!
    ~brian

    I believe I figured it was somewhere between Flash 5 and Flash 6. I say this because while the resulting presentations could be opened in QuickTime (which only uses Flash 5) a better result would be achieved by viewing in the browser. Either that, or QuickTime's Flash 5 support isn't complete.

  • Keynote and flash - sizes

    I want to create a flash file that is a certain size in pixels, ideally by using keynote if this is possible. How can I change the size of the flash file that is exported from Keynote? Is it simply the paper size that needs adjusting?

    Yes, that's correct. Just be aware that you can't create a slide size smaller in either height or width than 200 pixels. If you need something smaller than this, you'll need to create the file at an even multiple of your target size greater than 200
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    set up Keynote to create it at 400x200
    and then, when you embed it in the browser, embed it at the 100x50 size. It should work fine for you.

  • Keynote and PDF Export

    Exporting Keynote presentation in PDF via email is a great feature that has been awaited by potential business users.
    However, PDF exports from ipad do not seems to be supported by acrobat especially on PCs/windows system. Font conversion seems corrupted and text appears with bullets.
    Any hint on how to send keynote presentation converted in pdf properly ?
    Many thx

    I also ran into a bug with PDF export today. The PDF displayed properly on my mac, but when viewed on other laptops (and when uploaded to Scribd), the text was missing. :/
    Workaround was to export the keynote file to my mac, then use the desktop keynote app to re-export as PDF.

  • Leopard and encore dvd and flash export big problem

    hello, do you know this problem?, with my Macbook pro and MacPro 2008 and CS3 creative suite production premium, I can't make an export to flash, crash and crash.
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    Yes, this is a huge problem that was brought up months ago. Adobe has still not provided an update or fix for it. It seems to be a problem between Encore and the Leopard version of Quicktime. (So maybe Adobe and Apple are both just hoping the other one will fix it while we keep getting frustrated!)
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  • Animated logo -- and Flash export?

    Hi Folks -
    So, I'm working on animating this logo:
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    Seems simple, but I can't figure how to go about smoothly animating it. Behaviors? Keyframes? Help. =/
    Also, I'm hoping to use it for the web. So, my secondary question is: if I import the Motion file into After Effects, can I then simply export the animation as Flash?
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    Evan

    Looks like a simple animation. If Flash is your target, I would do the whole thing in Flash using masks. You can take a Illustrator file and just mask and animate the layers.
    When you do this in Flash I think that you will find that your file size will be much smaller than producing a .flv or .mov file. Also your logo seems like it is all vector based, thus scalable.
    I wouldn't even think about bringing this into After Effects from Motion. No need to, too many steps than what is needed.
    You can however turn a Motion file that has been imported into After Effects in to a .swf file. There are limits, as somethings will not be exported a vector art. See Adobe website for infor. They have tutorial videos on the subject.
    Do you have Flash? With the new CS3, you can import your Illustrator/ Photoshop layers into Flash layers which you can then animate.
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  • Flash and quicktime export not possible at all!

    hi iwork dev team!
    as there was no result on my prev post, here again:
    i use keynote'08 4.02 on imac with 2gb and osx 10.5.2.
    i created a presentation with 15 slides and over all 16,5 minutes.
    each slide has a mp3 sound file attached (the speakers voice recorded externally).
    now i am facing following problems on *export to flash* (export is around 18mb):
    1) synchronization of voice and effects is different than inside keynote - i fixed this by changing times and export/test cycles, as long until i run sync in swf (please make it sync - this is terrible).
    2) starting with slide 13 some objects do not appear - in further slides many objects do not appear. the sound and time is ok, but not much to see. if i split the presentation into 2 parts, the export works fine, all objects appear in all slides, but i found no way to combine those 2 swf files....
    3) in one slide i found out that the order of appearing/disappearing objects confuses the swf export, so that many objects afterwards are not at all shown.... i played around long and splitted the slide in 2 slides and with some workarounds i got it show all objects.
    4) it would be great if at least some transitions and most effects would be supported and times of effects would be the same inside keynote and in exported swf.
    *exporting to quicktime*:
    1) first i had one large mp3 for the whole presentation and added it as soundtrack and synced it inside keynote. exporting this to quicktime made it run async. but at least export was possible for the full presentation.
    2) i splitted the mp3 for each slide and added each mp3 to each corresponding slide. this way i made it possible to export to swf (see above). but quicktime export now has no sound and slide shows up nearly endless.... qt export is impossible.
    what can i do?
    at least it would help me if i can export ONE swf file.
    best would be if it has same sync inside keynote and in swf - but i can live for now with swf export optimized sync that doesnt work inside keynote. but it should be fixed at least in the future....

    I'm currently having a similar problem, where the Flash exported by Keynote seems to randomly miss some objects on the page that appear after a click or a delay. In fact, in one case, I had embedded a EPS file in the slide, and some parts of the embedded file were exported to Flash but not others. I'm using Keynote 3.0.2, so I'm sorry to hear that Keynote '08 still has this bug which makes Flash export pretty awful to deal with.

  • Keynote smaller flash-files ?

    I was delighted to discover that it's easy to make little slideshows in Keynote and having the option to export them to flash format.
    I would like to incorporate them in my website, which shows different projects during the year. It would make managing the website much easier then in html. However . . . . . a 500 kB keynote file (7 slides 700x350 pixels) makes a 3mB flashfile after export. And that doesn't make me feel happy.
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    Important detail: I don't have the official Flash software, which . . . I guess . . . would make it a lot easier.
    PowerMac G5 (2x1.8) double harddisk   Mac OS X (10.3.9)  

    Unfortunately, Keynote's Flash export is more of a concession to that format's ubiquity than it is a full-featured high quality Flash file creator. There are many ways other tools have to lower file size by converting vectors, compressing images, etc. Keynote doesn't have any of those. In order to have a smaller Keynote file, you have to make sure that you're pre-compressing all your images to be the exact size you want them to be. Even then, other tools do a MUCH better job than Keynote.

  • Flash exported from Keynote and embeded in iWeb page not working in IE

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  • Flash Export and Image Quality

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