Quartz Composer files presented as QT movies

Dear All,
I have discovered the Quartz Composer in the Dev tools and have been having great fun using it. However, when I insert the QTZ file into keynote (i am using keynote 3 and tiger 10.4.4) it plays as a quicktime file with reduced resolution.. very annoying. Is there anyway of rectifying this? I've also tried linking to the qtz file as a hyperlink but as you know keynote won't let me.
Any help would be appreciated!
Conor

Are you setting Keynote to enlarge the slideshow to fill the screen? If so, then that may be why your .qtz files look blocky around the edges. Try turning that option off to see if it enhances their look any.
EDIT:
Just tried that and it doesn't work like that. It appears that if you want it to show up looking as good in Keynote as it does in Quartz Composer, then you'll have to use it at the same resolution it's used in Quartz Composer. Enlarging in Keynote will make it blocky, enlarging in QTZC then dropping it into Keynote will make it show properly.
Message was edited by: Kyn Drake

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