Movement of Objects

Question

Hi there,
I'm looking for a way to add movement/animation of an object. For Example
I want to move an object from 1 point in the slide to another w/out it leaving the slide itself. Meaning, I dont want to enter/exit the slide. Just custom movement.
1. Enter Animation - Apear
2. Custom Animation - Move from 1 Point to another point on Same Slide
3. Exit Animation
Secondly, I want an object to blick and repeat blinking. BUT I only want it todo this after the entrance animimation is completed. Meaning
1. Enter Animation - Slide In
2. Custom Animation - Blink Repeat)
3. Exit Animation
Is this possible in Keynote? So far, I have not seen any mechanism for this feature. PPT does this out of the box.

Answer 1

Keynote's animation capabilities are in many ways not as mature as PowerPoint's, and more specifically, there is no way to do animation paths in the current version of Keynote. (There is speculation, based on what has been seen in Steve Job's recent talks, that this feature may appear in the next version.) Under certain very constrained circumstances, the effect can be approximated by combining multiple copies of objects, masks, and builds.
The other effect is easy to produce -- as is usual, the key is to start with the visual appearance you want to achieve, and not the actual objects involved. In this case, you would build the original object in, then have it disappear and have a copy of the object appear with a build in, then build out, have another copy appear and disappear, etc., for however many blink cycles you want. Then, a final appear build in, and exit animation for the last copy. It's not elegant, but it works.