Keynote animated GIFs

I recently purchased iwork 8. I have been using 6 and have used a lot of animated GIF files with a clear or transparent background. This has always worked well with 6 but with 8 the GIFs show up with a white box background. They place and play the way they always have but there is this white box behind. I have even tried opening an old presentation with 8 where the GIFs had a clear background and they show up with the box also. I have called Apple support but they don't have any answers. Please help

Welcome to the discussions, wavra.
This is currently a known issue. But, since it hasn't been fixed yet, please be sure to add your comments to the feedback to Apple on this.
http://www.apple.com/feedback/keynote.html

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