Serious flaw in audio and transitions

When I fade out the audio going into another clip, via a transition, the audio starts playing again during the transition, cuts off after the transition and then starts playing the audio of the next clip after the transition. Naturally I have no control over the audio during the transition.
iMovie is decent software but the lack of any decent audio editing within the program makes it pretty amateur. Sadly, Windows Movie Maker is far better when it comes to editing video and audio within the program. Hopefully the design team is working toward making this a superior product.

I've been telling Apple since at least '09. The audio problems existed then too. There are a couple reasons and maybe I'll go through some old posts here or that I've sent Apple to try to find them, but once you "fix" the issue that is causing this problem, it will then be fine. Obviously this is a bug and should have been fixed years ago though. Here's one thing to be aware of right off the bat....
Don't bother using Precision Editor to start or end audio earlier or later because you'll wind up messing up audio transitions before and/or after the transition you're working on. What winds up happening is fades turn into hard cuts here and there. Only the one you worked on will be fine. Stick with detaching the audio instead.

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Hello,
I have read about audio problems in Keynote when exporting to QT, but I have not seen anyone write about the problem I experienced.
In my presentation, I have several slides that play audio files of varying lengths - 30 sec, 45 sec, etc. I have the slides set to delay the transition to the next slide until the audio file is done playing. For example, on the slide with the 30 sec AIF, I set the slide to delay the transition for 32 seconds. Everything works great in Keynote. The timings are perfect. But when I export the presentation as a QT .mov, extra time is placed on those slides - a lot of extra time! I think it may be playing the 30 sec audio file, and then starting the 32 second delay, so the slide sits there on the screen for an extra 32 seconds.
Has anyone else experienced this? Is this a bug, or am I supposed to know that there are different "rules" when exporting to QT? I can't find anything about this in the manual.
Thanks,
Michael

This is a known problem with Keynote. Version 3.0.2 is not able to hold a transition until the end of a movie when presenting live, so the workaround is to place a build approximately equivalent in length to the audio or video.
As you've seen, the problem comes when you export to QuickTime as that delay is in ADDITION to the content. The only workaround is to build two presentations, one with the delay built in for live presentations and another with no delays that's intended for QuickTime export. If you keep these two in sync, then you always have a presentation ready whether you're doing it live or needing to export it to QuickTime.

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Is it possible in Premiere CS6 to do the same thing ? Leave me a link to documentation, or a hint, how to get this thing done.
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Thanks for hints.

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Since installing Keynote 4 and the 4.0.1 update, I have noted the following situations and/or problems:
1) When doing a "save-as" the filename is appended with the suffix ".key" but when I subsequently "save" this file, the suffix disappears. The file seems to open and operate OK nonetheless, but this puzzles and somewhat concerns me that someday Keynote may not recognize the file. This happens whenever I "save" a slideshow after I have made any changes to it.
2) When playing back a "soundtrack," the audio "glitches" frequently at slide transitions: this occurs repeatedly on my G5 desktop system but not on my MacBook Pro-17. The "glitches" always seem to occur at the same places in the track - which, of course, is also at the same slide transitions. (This problem has spawned several similar questions and threads in this forum.)
3) Related to #2 above, the "glitches" also interrupt or corrupt the "recording" of that soundtrack, so that the synchronization is off when the slideshow is played back.
4) If I want to have an audio track play under a series of slides, the only way I have found to accomplish this is to create a separate slideshow with the audio track running as a "soundtrack" and "record" the Builds and Transitions in sync with the audio. If I want to incorporate several of these shows together, I can create a "master" slideshow and Hyperlink each segment to the next. HOWEVER...
5) When I "record" a "soundtrack" and "synchronize" the Builds and Transitions within the slideshow, everything plays back properly in sync ONLY when the slideshow is played as a stand-alone presentation (i.e. a cold start from the desktop). If I initiate playback of the slideshow via a Hyperlink from another presentation, the soundtrack plays but NONE of the synchronization works at all.
6) The only way I have found to have an audio track "fade-in" or "fade-out" is to use off-line editing software to record these fades prior to importing the tracks into Keynote. The "Start Audio" Build function is simply a hard "cut" in, and the end of the track is a hard "cut" out.
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At the risk of offending the moderators of this forum, I feel compelled to comment that these problems render the audio operations of Keynote less than satisfactory and should be addressed as soon as possible with another update to this visually stunning but audio-challenged application.

Well Ron S, I re-confirmed why I prefer not to look to tech support for support.
It seems to me that support's main function is to deflect any critical comments and push the blame back to the user.
Frankly, I have better things to do with my time and money than try to help a multi-billion dollar enterprise learn about itself.
So, for the benefit of you and the nearly 400 who have followed this thread, I offer you my latest and probably last attempt to have Apple acknowledge in some small way that "Houston, we have a problem".
I expect this reply will result in this thread being yanked as well, since I'm expressing negative thoughts about Apple's product and wishing they would do better, which is a non-technical gasp of utter frustration and disappointment. Note that "product" is singular, defining Keynote. My other Apple products serve me loyally and superbly, which is why my huge disappointment with Keynote.
So here is my correspondence with Tech Support. I've removed names except mine.
I think it speaks for itself. They have notes from my conversations with them that I have current Apple computers, including a MacBookPro, not an old PowerBook, nevertheless, they have told me that the problem is mine because the fabulous hyper-performing Keynote software is choking my poor old machine (paraphrased muchly).:
Hi (support),
That's disappointing news, especially since this test was done on 3 machines: an old G4 400, a 2.0G Dual G5 and an Intel core duo MacBookPro which yielded identical results.
It is not a hardware issue.
I do not accept a brush-off that it is my hardware that is causing Keynote to be problematic.
I will assume that Apple is not interested in addressing these issues in public and that Keynote is substandard software that is in need of re-authoring.
Sorry to be so blunt, but Apple has set this tone with Keynote, and used its considerable reputation as a leading a/v technology innovator to imply that Keynote will deliver the excellence we Mac users have come to expect.
I have been a loyal mac user since the SE series and have enjoyed success with the machines and software offered by Apple, and depend on them for my livelihood. I'm currently using FC Studio6 and know that Apple is capable of maintaining its high standards.
However, Keynote fails to do that, instead behaving like a product that was invented in a teenager's basement and is in beta. I realize that it's not designed as a FCP level product, but it fails at the basic tasks that you advertise it will complete.
A version 4 product should work as advertised. Keynote certainly does not.
I'm deeply saddened that Apple seems to have become an iPod entertainment company, interested mainly in profits from entertainment rather than serious useful technology.
On 2007-Oct-19, at 10:14 AM, (tech support) wrote:
Hello Sir,
Unfortunately, this does look like it's mostly a case of some of the new Keynote features slowing down the performance on the PowerBook.
At this point, there isn't much else we can do in the way of troubleshooting.
If you are not satisfied with the performance on the PowerBook, using the previous version of Keynote is probably his best option at this point.
We will continue to research this issue, but at this point it's unlikely I'll be able to find additional suggestions for improving performance, as it looks like it is is reproducible and limited to older models.
On Oct 16, 2007, at 11:27 PM, Ron Tucker wrote:
Hi (support),
Thanks for your recent followup calls. I'm directing a video shoot so am a bit preoccupied.
Here are the tests I mentioned.
These are as simple as it gets, and I think highlights the synchronization problem with Keynote.
Test 1 is straightforward, and demonstrates that a single unedited recorded audio track will maintain mouse click synchronization.
Test 2 is the same file, but with audio modifications applied to each slide in succession.
This demonstrates a dramatic synchronization slippage.
The visuals occur before the click (and audio) markers. Keynote seems to be create delay in audio at each "record and replace" point. This accumulates as the audio is revised in successive slides.
These tests demonstrate that there is a fundamental flaw in how Keynote handles audio in its most basic application.
This does not address the slim toolset available, such as lack of insert capability and other basic audio tools, which is a separate design issue, and I suppose subject to "request for enhancement" feedback.
I've reluctantly abandoned Keynote for my project work at present until these basic issues are addressed and it can be demonstrated that Keynote can successfully execute its feature set.
<TuckerKeynoteTest.zip>
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Geoff J wrote:
i did all of which you suggest, and then some
here's the full record
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looks like I have to pony up the 1.2-1.6 G's for the RME and sell the POS interfaces to finance it
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Hi
Don't know Why but it occures to often and
My way around this is that in iMovie HD 6 before applying any transition or effect.
Extract audio from Advance menu. (in iMovie'08 - I've got NO solution!)
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Muting the "collection track" and "video audio" track.
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so much better with iDVD and Your DVD disc.
Burn at an as slow speed as possibly eg x1
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"What's your full system build? Please list out."
Sorry for the slow reply, I've been seriously busy...
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Hope this helps.
Does anyone think that this could be a Windows issue, even though putting in another souond card didn't help? I haven't installed so much software at this point that a re-install would be too much of a pain in the butt...
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Hi
Often the problem is sound and transitions -
• Extract audio first
• then apply transition
• then adjust the extracted audio so that they fade in and out
Working solution to a known problem
ELSE
*Not knowing the origin to Your problem - General approach when in trouble is as follows.*
• Free space on internal (start-up) hard disk if it is less than 10Gb should rather have 25Gb
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From LKN 1935. (in this case = iMovie HD (5), I tried it all, but nothing worked.
Your answer (above) has been helpfull insofar as all the different trials led to the conclusion that
there was something wrong with my iMovie software. I therefore threw everything away and reinstalled
iMovie from the HD. After that the exportation of DV videos (there has not been any problem with HDV videos)
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I'm really sorry if this topic has been raised before, but I'm new to this Discussion Forum.
Can anybody let me know if it's possible to add an audio effect to a transition in Keynote 3. For example if I wanted to add a whooshing sound to a Reflection transition so that as the screens rotate you hear the sound effect. I've looked on various other help sites and forums, but none of them have either posed this question or offered a solution. I know in, (sorry dirty word coming), PowerPoint that you can add audio and fine tune and edit the timing and I am hoping that I can do the same in Keynote.
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