Keynote for theater presentation

Hi everyone,
I am using keynote to produce a theater presentation which is going to be shown at two televisions simultaneously. The presentation starts with a half an hour video. Is there a way to keep this video (2GB) external? The presentation has to be quick enough to follow the narrator, so I would love to hear all tricks and trips in keeping the keynote file small and above all, quick. All images are external and there are quite a lot of quick time movies. I wonder if performance would be allright.
You can see the presentation (work in progress) at
http://www.garciacity.com/dieschonemagelone
Thanks in advance to everyone.

the two biggies for me are soft drop shadows, and images that have transparency placed INSIDE (or as a fill) to a ppt auto shape.
I ran into this second one when I exported a theme I'm working on into PPT 2004. All my photo cutouts are actual Keynote shapes, and I created shadow images that actually sit inside a shape, so you get a nice hard edge on the cutout...but when I opened the PPT file, these shapes (which came over as PPT shapes) which should have shown a shadow with transparency around it ended up with solid white backgrounds.
Then I tried to just use a standard PPT shape and add an image into it, and got the same effect. Transparency INSIDE a ppt shape just isn't supported.
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