Keynote to Quicktime Color Issue

I have a Keynote presentation which I export to Quicktime. Unfortunately the colors look nothing of what was designed in the presentation. Dark grey's are medium to light, reds become muddy.
I have changed the color profile in the panel to all kind of settings, but nothing helps. The .mov file looks completely washed out.
Any ideas out there?

I just finished exporting the movie with different codecs...
- It seems that it is actually the H.264 codec that changes those colors so dramatically (e.g. a #ce054d burgundy changing into a #e9256d pink)
- Using Photo JPEG codec right now with much better results (also bigger file size, of course...)
Wow, didn't expect H.264 to behave like this...

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I am looking for some amazing expertise and really appreciate any help and guidance.
I've exported a presentation from Keynote 09 to Quicktime and have an issue. When I try to play the presentation in QT X, I click to advance from slide 1 to 2 and it works perfect, but then when I click to advance to slide 3 it returns me to the start of slide 1 every time. Meanwhile when I use the spacebar/quickview without opening QT the entire presentation plays perfectly.
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Thanks Dani and Glad...
As an update on my side:
I called in to Apple to try and find out if I jump up to Final Cut Studio (with a bit of a learning curve), if I would be able to replicate exactly the (slideshow) video I made easily in Keynote, hopefully avoiding this issue with the assumption that it is specifically related to Keynote.
Prior to getting on the line with a Final Cut expert, I did fully explain why I was calling with the hope of getting a solution for this issue as I would like to keep Keynote in my arsenal, especially since I am semi-fluent in it.
The person helping was very nice and asked to put me on hold for 3-5 minutes, which I am perfectly happy to wait for complete and accurate information. The solution I was presented with was as follows:
1) Go to export to QT as usual.
2) Click the second drop down (Formats) and select 'Custom...'.
3) A new window will pop up, click the 'Settings...' button.
My 'Compression Type' drop down was set to 'H.264'....I was told to
4) Change the 'Compression Type' to 'MPEG-4 Video.
(I do not think it is related to the fix being suggested or just as a preference, I was told to slide the Compressor - Quality slider on the bottom left to 'Best')
5) Click the 'OK' button on the bottom left
That window will close.
6) Click the 'Next' button and continue with your export.
I did this and the QT file worked, unlike the original I had done. I can not confirm it isn't a hit or miss like Glad saw...but I did ask if this was a "just try this and let's see" (like Microsoft, altctldel...try restarting your machine) or if this is a known issue....it wasn't totally clear, but I was told (not exact words, but basically) there may be something funky about Keynote or QT with H.264. I don't know codecs so have no idea, but I continued....
In case I still don't feel comfortable with this "fix" (which I am not sure I do...I also made a new, but less complex video and switched back to H.264 - this one worked...) I asked to still be connected to a FC expert, just to ask my questions anyway as it would be good knowledge to have, even if just for future self development.
I again did my best to explain what was going on, and the Final Cut person did not understand how changing to H.264 would make any difference...to mention, it is possible I had a hard time getting on the same page as this person who was trying to help me so he may not have understood exactly what I was asking exactly - but he did understand my bottom line - I need to make this video that works when exported to Quicktime!
Not sure if related (would be curious if this is relevant to others here), again not being familiar with codecs, etc - I had dropped a few QT movies I was given from someone else not being sure what they used to create it. I thought a Quicktime movie is a QT move - universal standard....apparently so for playing but not for re-exporting.
I was advised to get a QT 7 Pro key so in the future I can open QT movies I am sent in QT and re-export it as a QT movie from my machine (OS, codec, etc, etc, etc) before dropping it into a project I am working on.
Being on OS 10.6 I have QT X, which does not have this functionality (as mentioned - no Pro version) and when I tried to get a QT 7 Pro key in the past I was misinformed that I wouldn't be able to install it on my machine since it is running a newer version and wouldn't let me install an outdated/older version. Apparently, this is not totally accurate - it is missing from my Utility folder, but I need to do a custom install of it (only way to do it - can't just DL it) from the 10.6 OS disk.
Please, let me know if any of this worked for you or if I can add more details I left out.
Best of luck (...for us all)!!!!
Michael

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I having some major color issues when trying to make a slide show.
In searching the forums I see I am not the only one, however the other answers given are not working for me.
I need this project finished today!!
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Several images that have been worked over in Photoshop. They have been saved as JPEG images and brought into iPhoto. From iPhoto they have been brought into iMovie 6.02. Some have the Ken Burns effect, some do not.
They look nice and clean on the timeline HOWEVER in the preview window they all have green tints. If I use full preview mode they still have the green tint.
I have tried exporting them from iPhoto and re-entering them back into iPhoto under different names, thrown back into iMovie. Same issue.
I have tried photos that have not been through Photoshop and were not from the same source...same result.
This is not good!
I need this project done today!!!
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Thanks for getting back to me.
Not that I am glad that it is a bug...but having no history with iMovie it does catch me up.
As far as monitor color corrections, I make my living dealing with digital images which why I was so freaked out about iMovie destroying all my work when it was brought in.
Here is what I found while waiting for a reply...which goes along with what you also told me.
The end goal of the iMovie/slideshow is to be part of an iDVD project.
When I dropped the Quicktime version of the little slideshow into iDVD the odd color cast was gone. This let me breath a sigh of relief.
I am a long time Mac user, make my living on them, would buy nothing else, but...this really should be fixed!
Thanks again for the reply.

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There is a basic checklist for color management issues:
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2 - is there an embedded document profile, and what is it?
3 - what is the monitor profile?
We've established #1. For #2, see in the lower left corner of the Photoshop image window. Click the little arrow and check "document profile". What does it say?
#3 is often the critical one. This is where your calibrated monitor profile should be - but if you don't do that, it's often a manufacturer supplied profile. These are often worse than worthless. The best option here is to use sRGB if you have a standard gamut monitor (like the U2412) - or Adobe RGB if you have a wide gamut monitor (like your co-worker's U3011). Yes, there is a significant difference between these two.
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Go to Control Panel > Color Management > Devices. Set sRGB IEC61966-2.1 as your default monitor profile there and relaunch Photoshop:
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