Keynote Presentation in iDVD

I have a Keynote presentation from iWork 08. It has a video clip on one of my slides. I'd like to manually click through the slides. I export as Quicktime. But when I bring it in to iDVD and burn, I am not able to click through the slides. Rather, the DVD player tries to play the slides like a movie and quickly goes through the presentation on its own. How can I fix this?

I'd try exporting all the 'static' slides as individual still images and export the slide with the video clip as a movie.
Create a slideshow in iDVD and add all your slides and the movie in the sequence you want them to play. Set the slide duration to Manual. I suggest you NOT select any transition. You probably will need to use the Chapter button on your DVD player remote to advance the slides.

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Error message trying to burn keynote presentation in idvd

I know this has been posted before - but I can't seem to find an answer to fix my problem. I am trying to export a 30 slide presentation from Keynote 3 to iDVD 6 - the presentation is using slides which should be the optimum slide size for iDVD (according to help files) it has an sudio file with it, but when I go to burn it using iDVD i get the following error message:
Error During Track Initialization
There was an error during track initialization and iDVD
cannot continue burning this DVD 'the disc has not been
touched yet!). Please select Delete Encoded Assets'
from the Advanced-menu and try burning this project again.
I tried exporting the presentation to QT, which then worked and allowed me to burn the dvd, but the picture quality was completely rubbish.
Am at a total loss what to do next as have spent last three days trying various things with no success... idvd now keeps crashing on me as well. I have an urgent deadline I need to meet by next week

Does your slideshow in Keynote have audio associated with it?
Exporting from Keynote to iDVD6 will essentially strip the audio from said presentation. As as you may have noticed, the results aren't all that great in terms of visual quality either .... and it will get even worse once compressed into mpeg2 /iDVD which is less than a third of a megapixel in resolution for still images). It's just the nature of the beast until we seen Blue Ray firmly established. This begs the question .... then why use this particular option for a slideshow presentation ??? Not the approach I'd use at all.
Suggestion: Find a better way to present your 30 slides /presentation that will do some measure of justice to the original image. Here are two apps I'd recommend looking into:
http://lqgraphics.com/phototomovie.php
http://www.boinx.com/fotomagico/overview/
Btw ... most Errors During Track Initialization tend to point at user's choice of media and or read/write speed when burning. I recommend using only Verbatim or Maxell DVD-R for troubleshooting purposes on this forum. Take the time to lower the burn speed to 4x or lower using apple's disc utilities or Roxio Toast. (Slower is better).
Hope this helps but if not come on back.

Multiple Keynote presentations onto iDVD?

I am trying to create a DVD with multiple keynote presentations? I first created multiple QT files and created a DVD that worked well, but did not allow for manual progression when played form the DVD (even with the option selected on QT file creation). Manual progression works when the file is played from my computer but not when played from DVD.
Next, I tried to export the files directly from Keynote to iDVD. However, I can't figure out how to get multiple files onto the same iDVD file.
Any thoughts on how I can get accomplish:
1) Multiple Keynote files onto the same DVD, with
2) manual progression through slides when running from the DVD?
Thanks!

You have some great suggestions here. Very good info from both the above posts.
There is a workaround but it doesn't involve iDvd. Rather it involves Keynote => iMovie as a .dv stream => minidv camcorder/ tape => set top DVD Recorder in sessions.
Here’s a possible solution that involves exporting each individual keynote movie as a QT file / Movie to the desktop.
From there you export each file as a .dv stream to your camcorder (assuming you have a minidv camera and iM6 which allows you to export back to the camera. Like this:
Click Here:
You record all the movies to minidv tape.
Connect the camcorder to the digital FW input on a set top DVD Player / Recorder (in my case a Daewoo DVR07). Set the recorder to record in Sessions to rewrite able DVD-RW media and export one QT movie per session. Each session will have it’s own Basic Menu.... like this:
Click here
You’d have to use the remote control to play each movie and pause when appropriate.
Btw .... it might also be possible to use Toast to record these QT files/movies in separate sessions onto one DVD.
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=610760#610760

Sides of Keynote presentation cut off when exported to iDVD

Hi,
I have a keynote presentation with the slides set to 800X600 that I am trying to burn to a DVD. I am able to burn fine but when it plays on my DVD player and CRT Samsung TV, the sides of the slides are cut off so that the first and last letters of many lines are not viewable. I also tried on a friend's TV with the same results The DVD looks fine when playing on my iMac but it's widescreen.
I first tried exporting the keynote presentation as a quicktime movie set to full quality 800X600. The next time I exported to iDVD which first exported to a quicktime movie with a size of 720X540. I thought that would fix it but that presentation also has the sides cut off. The iDVD project is using a standard 4:3 aspect ration. Should I try a widescreen project or won't that make more of the slide disappear. Any help would be much apprecitated.

Your problem is that while on a monitor, you can see the entire picture. Any DVD player connected to a standard television is going to show, at most, 90% of the image...some may only show 80%. This is due to something called Overscan on televisions. To account for this overscan, you have to make sure that as you're creating your presentation, you have nothing near the edges.
A good rule of thumb is to create an area that's 80% of the size of your presentation (in 4:3 resolutions, widescreen, you only have to worry about the right and left) and, as you're creating, keep dropping this shape onto your presentation slides to make sure you're inside it. Then, you'll be pretty sure that even on the worst televisions, all you information will show.

No Audio on Keynote exported to iDVD in quicktime

I am at my wits end with this! I just got this mac in May so bear with me (recently converted PC-er). This is my problem, in a nutshell:
1) I created a keynote presentation
2) I created a soundtrack for it in Garageband (blending two songs together to play out nicely over it) and then placed it in the document. It worked fine.
3) I exported the keynote presentation (making sure to include audio) to quicktime and put it on my desktop
4) In the meantime I had created an iDVD project to place this presentation in...everything is working fine audio wise on the menus
5) I dropped the presentation into the project--it encoded, I previewed it to make sure it worked, it did.
6) I burned it onto a dvd
7) tested it this morning by putting it in my dvd player at home and the movie plays, but there is no sound! Help!
Interesting things that might be significant
1) when i exported the keynote to quicktime and saved it on my desktop--it actually created two icons-one of the movie (that played the movie w/the soundtrack) and one that looks like it was just the soundtrack. Is that significant?
2) the tracks I used to make the garage band mix were purchased from iTunes but to make sure I didn't run into any DRM issues I burned them onto a disc and then re-imported them-making sure to use the 'burned' songs in my mix.
I am trying to get this ready to show for a presentation on Saturday and it's getting down to the wire.
thank you in advance for your help.

Thanks for the link, it looks like this is just a bug in b/w Keynote and Quicktime and I'd need to upgrade to Quicktime Pro in order to make it work--that's not an option for me right now so instead I took the slides from Keynote, imported them as an album to iPhoto and tried to send it as a slideshow to iDVD, but that made the video jumpy (although I did have my soundtrack). My final solution was to take the slides from iPhoto, drop them into iMovie, add transitions b/w each slide to emulate the feel I was going for--and adding my soundtrack there. I exported it to my desktop and then dropped it into iDVD. It works great. I am disappointed that I could not have the builds in the slides that I wanted-but this current state works.
I wish I'd just started with iMovie. Next time I definitely will!

Can I present a keynote presentation using airplay and Apple TV? How do I set up airplay ?

Can I present a keynote presentation using airplay and Apple TV? How do I set up airplay ?

Hi Andy,
You can do this reasonably easily.
First up you need to think about how you are going to drive the TV- Your iMac could do it, but a laptop would be easier if you can access one.
Second you need to look at the screen inputs. If it is a flat screen TV it is likely to have at least a VGA connection which you should have a connector to 'out of the box' and it will work much like connecting your mac to a projector would.
If not you'll probably need a connector for your mac that outputs composite (a single RCA connector) or S-Video to connect. You'll need to do this connection and find out the resolution the display supports before the big day (I live in a country with PAL which typically is 720x576). Make the Keynote presso the same resolution and you should be all good. A test drive is essential!
Here's a typical adapter from the Apple Store
http://store.apple.com/us/product/M9267G/A?fnode=MTY1NDA5OQ&mco=MjE0NTg4NQ
Just as a thought- you could just burn a DVD with the images- it's pretty simple to set up (with transitions) a photo library in iDVD, though a little more tricky if you need the images to appear at certain times.

Exporting Keynote presentation with ALL transitions to download to DVD

Hi guys... I have a keynote presentation that I want to burn to DVD. The transitions are quite tricky (set to music) but when I exported it to iDVD, only the basic (cube) transitions transferred and not the other ones (timing). Is it possible to download these presentation EXACTLY as seen in the program?

I am not sure... I think I tried BOTH. I am basically putting photos in the presentation to fit with the music. As this particular piece has some really fast bits in it, I have a selection of photos with minimal transitions (really fast) within the rest of the photos that have the cube transition (set at about 8 seconds each). Only the cube transitions exported.

Error exporting from keynote 3 to idvd 6

Apologies for duplicating this in iDVD forum too:
I know this has been posted before - but I can't seem to find an answer to fix my problem. I am trying to export a 30 slide presentation from Keynote 3 to iDVD 6 - the presentation is using slides which should be the optimum slide size for iDVD (according to help files) it has an sudio file with it, but when I go to burn it using iDVD i get the following error message:
Error During Track Initialization
There was an error during track initialization and iDVD
cannot continue burning this DVD 'the disc has not been
touched yet!). Please select Delete Encoded Assets'
from the Advanced-menu and try burning this project again.
I tried exporting the presentation to QT, which then worked and allowed me to burn the dvd, but the picture quality was completely rubbish.
Am at a total loss what to do next as have spent last three days trying various things with no success... idvd now keeps crashing on me as well. I have an urgent deadline I need to meet by next week

Hi BigLou:
Be sure that you trash the idvd preferences prior to staring a new project. There may be leftover files from the trial version that are messing things up too. Look for all of those to be sure that you got rid of them.
Exporting your slideshow for presentation on a DVD player
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Keynote/3.0/en/key212.html
Sue

Export Keynote Presentations to Make a DVD with Sound

I am very pleased with the ease of use and beauty of Keynote compared to PPT and its clunky interface, and I really like Keynote's elegant transitions and builds.
I have a number of Keynote presentations from 20 minutes to about an hour that I want to place on DVDs to share with others.
I own Final Cut Pro 4.5, DVD Studio Pro 3.0, Motion 1.0, iLife '04, Keynote 1.0, Keynote 2.0.2, Garage Band 1.0, and Sound Studio 2.1. I've been a Mac user since 1985 and have kept up with many apps and am a professional photographer, but am just getting into video production and need advice.
1. Is it possible to import a Keynote (v.2) or (v.3) into FCP as it is advertized for iDVD? Or can Keynote files be imported into DVD Studio Pro 3.0 also? Pros vs Cons?
2. Is it possible to lay down a complete sound track in FCP and then import a Keynote presentation and sync it to the transitions and builds?
3. Or is it necessary to cut up the sound into the correct time length for each slide (and builds) and paste into each slide in Keynote?
4. Is there a way to easily modify the time length of a slide (transition and/or build(s)) within FCP after the Keynote presentation has been imported?
5. If this is saved in QuickTime can that be imported into FPC?
6. Or is it better to lay down individual sound bytes in FCP after the Keynote presentation is imported?
7. Are there any tricks that I should know about in timing the sound bytes for each slide transition with its builds?
8. Do I need QuickTime Pro?
9. If I upgrade to Keynote 3, will that make things work easier, such as exporting directly to iDVD or DVD Studio Pro 3.0?
10. If I upgrade to iLife '06 with its iDVD, will that facilitate in any way?
Thanks in advance for your advice.
Frank Evan

I love Keynote, took me a bit to figure out how to keep it looking so good exporting it so i could use it in FCP and Motion and then to DSP. The trick is when you export from Keynote use the QT and then go to formats then custom, under video change it from 800x600 i alwas use 800x600 to build Keynote presentations looks better when you export, change this to 720x540 this will keep your presentation looking just as nice. Under settings i use Animation and millions of colors, good luck i use this method and works every time. From there you can take it right into DSP or FCP and even Motion, i usually don't export sound from Keynote but you could i add mine later in FCP. Hope this works for you.

How do I make a Keynote presentation play on a DVD Player?

I finished a Keynote presentation for a client, who now wants to show the finished product on a TV using a DVD player. How can this be done? Do I need to run it through iMovie, or can I burn a DVD from Keynote? The client will be using the unit's remote control to stop-and-play.

I have never tried this, so I can't comment on the results, but in +Share>Send To+ there is an option for iDVD. You can decide to have the timing as Manual Advance, Recorded Timing or Fixed Timing.
If you do try this route, post back here and let us know how it works.

How do I show a Keynote presentation on a TV?

I made a Keynote presentation of photographs to be shown at a local museum. I burned it to a DVD and gave it to them. But they said it does not work on their DVD player. I made it into a QuickTime movie and tried to play it on a DVD player at Best Buy but it would not work either. How can I get my presentation to show on the museum's big screen flat TV? What format will work?

It is better if you make the presentation with iPhoto or Aperture, if you don't need to write on them (actually I do it even if I have to write something).
If you need to edit some slides, you can use Keynote and when you've done you just play it full screen and take a screenshot of the slide (Shift + Command + 3) then import it in iPhoto.
When the slideshow is ready, you will only have to export it to iDvd.
Regards

Creating an interactive DVD from a Keynote presentation

Does anyone know how to create an interactive DVD from a Keynote Presentation?
I tried the export to Quicktime option, and then brought that QT movie into iDVD. The problem is that the interactive pauses between slides that I get with the QT version, isn't there in iDVD. The transitions turn into chapters, and when you play the DVD, one chapter goes right into another.
I'm sure someone has dealt with this before.

I should make something clear here...
Be careful with terminiology. WIth Keynote 3 you can create a linear DVD, that works the same way a show in Keynote works if you plan to move through the show in the order you built it (complete with all the builds). What it does NOT appear to do is allow you to make a non linear DVD, which is, if you put a button/hyperlink on a slide, it won't work in the DVD. See my other thread about this for the reason why. I'm praying the next version of DVD Studio Pro will read iDVD projects, which would allow us to customize what Apple creates for us automatically.

Moving Keynote Presentation to a Video Podcast

I have a Keynote presentation that I would like to record with narration, manually advance slides in sync with the narration, then move the combined narrated Keynote to a video podcast where viewer can see the slides and hear the narration.
Have tried moving it to GarageBand but it seems to throw up on the audio, won't take it in either the 'copy audio' or 'mix audio' options.
iMovie seems a logical choice but text on the slides (which look great in Keynote) all look out of focus in iMovie, either the new one or iMovieHD. Some fonts help this situation but none look anywhere as clear as the original Keynote. Went to One on Ones and no help there.
This does not seem like an off the wall application of Keynote to me but a logical extension for 'distance learning'. Has anyone done this successfully with text /photo slides with narration? how about slides with video clips as well?

We use Dropbox to do this effortlessly to mobile devices. It is free for users requiring less than 2GB of data:
Dropbox for Mobile Devices

How can I connect my iMac [Mavericks OS] to my TV so that I can show a Keynote presentation on the TV?

I want to connect my iMac [Mavericks OS] to my TV so that I can show a Keynote presentation on the TV. I have a local wireless network. My TV is Internet accessible.

If you do not have this option, then I would suspect your Mac does not support audio over HDMI.

I would appreciate it if someone could advise me as to the optimum resolution, dimensions and dpi for actual photographic slides that I am scanning for use in a Keynote Presentation, that will be projected in a large auditorium. I realize that most proje

I would appreciate it if someone could advise me as to the optimum resolution, dimensions and dpi for actual photographic slides that I am scanning for use in a Keynote Presentation, that will be projected in a large auditorium. I realize that most projectors in auditoriums that I will be using have 1024 x 1200 pixels, and possibly 1600 x 1200. There is no reference to this issue in the Keynote Tutorial supplied by Apple, and I have never found a definitive answer to this issue online (although there may be one).
Here’s my question: When scanning my photographic slides, what setting, from 72 dpi to 300 dpi, would result in the best image quality and use up the most efficient amount of space?
Here’s what two different photo slide scanning service suppliers have told me:
Supplier No. 1 tells me that they can scan slides to a size of 1544 x 1024 pixels, at 72 dpi, which will be 763 KB, and they refer to this as low resolution (a JPEG). However, I noticed when I looked at these scanned slides, the size of the slides varied, with a maximum of 1.8 MB. This supplier says that the dpi doesn’t matter when it comes to the quality of the final digital image, that it is the dimensions that matter. They say that if they scanned a slide to a higher resolution (2048 x 3072), they would still scan it at 72 dpi.
Supplier No. 2: They tell me that in order to have a high quality image made from a photographic slide (starting with a 35 mm slide, in all cases), I need to have a “1280 pixel dimension slide, a JPEG, at 300 dpi, that is 8 MB per image.” However, this supplier also offers, on its list of services, a “Standard Resolution JPEG (4MB file/image – 3088 x 2048), as well as a “High Resolution JPEG (8 MB file/image – 3088x2048).
I will be presenting my Keynotes with my MacBook Pro, and will not have a chance to try out the presentations in advance, since the lecture location is far from my home, so that is not an option.
I do not want to use up more memory than necessary on my laptop. I also want to have the best quality image.
One more question: When scanning images myself, on my own scanner, for my Keynote presentations, would I be better off scanning them as JPEGs or TIFFs? I have been told that a TIFF is better because it is less compressed.
Any enlightenment on this subject would be appreciated.
Thank you.

When it comes to Keynote, I try and start with a presentation that's 1680 x 1050 preset or something in that range. Most projectors that you'll get at a conference won't project much higher than that and if they run at a lower resolution, it's better to have the device downsize your Keynote. Anything is better than having the projector try and upsize your presentation... you work hard to make it look good, and it's mangled by some tired Epson projector.
As far as slides go, scan them in at 150 dpi or better, and make them at least the dimensions of your presentation. Keynote is really only wanting 72dpi, but I do them at 150, just in case I need to print out the presentation as a handout later, and having the pix at 150 dpi gives me a little help with their quality on a printer.
You'd probably have to drop in the 150 versions again if you output the Keynote to .pdf or Word or something, but at least you have the option.
And Gary's right (above) go ahead and scan them as TIFFs. Sooner or later you'll want to do something else with these slides (like make something for an iPad or the like) and having them as TIFFs keeps your presentation looking good.
Finally, and this is a big one, get to the location for your presentation ahead of time if you can, and plug the laptop in and see what you get. There's always connection problems. Don't let the AV bonehead tell you everything will work just fine ('... I don't have any adapters for a Mac...') . See it for yourself... you're the one that's standing up there. Unless it's your boss, then you better be really sure it works.

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