Need opinion

I've been working on this 2 minute video presentation on Final Cut Express. Here's my problem: there are several titles and texts along with many graphics and small animations. Also included are several HD video sequences. Final Cut and digital video don't like text, graphics and animations so the only good looking part in my presentation is the video sequences. The rest looks like crap. The text and animations looks very fuzzy. So I just heard about iWork. I thought I could build my presentation in iWork. I could import the video sequences, the graphics and the animations. The presentation is a 2 min. self running looping video so I could export it as a Quicktime. This needs to play on a PC (not ideal, I admit). I need your opinion on this. I am on the right track here? How does iWork handle videos? Will I loose quality? Since I will be running this on PCs, is Quicktime the best export alternative? Or should I go with Powerpoint? Thanks for you input.

Right now you are on the wrong track. Export to PowerPoint sometimes works very well, but often it is so shoddy, that you could as well start from scratch again in PowerPoint. If you intend to show the presentation in PowerPoint, you should always test it in PowerPoint first. And if you have PowerPoint to test it, you may want to create it there instead of in Keynote to save one step.
QuickTime used to be an excellent solution for what you want to do. However, currently there is a bug, so Keynote presentations exported to QT won't play well on a PC. It is possible (but far from certain) that it is solved in the version of Keynote that came out yesterday. For your needs, you should wait until someone can tell for sure if the Keynote 3 solves the problems.
PDF can contain movies and make reasonably good presentations as well, but (as far as I know) not the PDF version that can be produced with iWork.
That said, there are many excellent reasons to buy and use iWork. For your particular needs, however, the current version doesn't work.

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