Movieclips - best compression formats and filesize in general for Keynote?

I have experienced the same problems as many others in this forum with playing QT movies in keynote. My mpeg-2 will not even import now in Leopard 10.5 and KN 4.0.1.
I would likt to know if someone has tried out what QT compatible formats looks best and runs best in general in keynote when exporting from FCP via compressor? I have quite a few movies in an upcoming presentation.
Mpeg-2 doesn't import at the moment in Leopard, it works fine in Tiger 10.4.10 though.
It seems to me that anything with the extention .mov will a least run in Leopard.
The point where the file size becomes problem?
Has anyone tried if creating multiple KN documents and then link from one to the next works better than stacking movieclips in the same document?
Any information on avoiding stuttering clips and sounds also for that matter would be highly appreciated.
Henrik

I'm also experiencing stuttered playback of movies in Keynote when they play fine in the Quicktime player. Does anyone have suggestions for ideal compressor, data rate, file size?

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ok!
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Iggy826 wrote:
… Is this statement true?
yes and no!
using the intended Import from Camera routines, iM converts automatically in its very own AppleIntermediateCodec. so, answer is yes.
but …
a) Apple claims , aic is non-lossy intermediate codec. working with proRes in FCPX taught me, there are even less non-lossy-ness codecs
b) iM offers an Archive feature, which is basically a simple Finder/copy operation which 'clones' your SDcards content into some folder on your harddrive; e.g. you can later use these untouched 'raws' in another editor such as FCPX. so, answer is no.
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one thing to be kept in mind when talking about these 'issues':
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fingers crossed, we'll see soon some iM/QT/FCPX update for support of AVCHD v2 ........
the main consumer devices are within the specs, iM supports.
using professional equipments makes usage of professional software (FCPX, AP) optional.
sorry for lengthy answer.

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