Slide resolution?

Will Keynote allow a custom panoramic slide resolution setting of 3840x960? Also, can you import into Keynote morphed images from Morph Age?

Keynote will indeed allow that custom size.

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Choice of Slide Resolution

Having read the HELP Topic with Keynote 08 on Slide Resolution I feel that there's important detail missing. ANYONE OUT THERE WHO CAN HELP BEFORE I CREATE LOTS OF SLIDES??
1) Since (I've noticed) that if I decide to change the slide size of a presentation I'm going to have to rework each slide manually, it seems super important to get it right before finalising a big presentation.
2) Since people with MacBook Pros may travel and encounter a variety of venues (and projectors) it seems super important to take this into account before preparing a presentation.
From the information given it's not clear whether.
a) Its best to choose a large resolution for the slides (at least as great as the highest resolution that you think you may ever encounter) and let Keynote Scale down automatically for smaller displays??? Are there disadvantages to this???
b) It's better to choose a more average resolution and then have Keynote Scale up?? I understand there may be some pixellation but if that's a bad thing depends on your answer to (a).
c) you say that if I want to integrate a movie I may want to choose a higher resolution... Why??? (Isn't the projector the limiting factor?) What are the consequences for the rest of the presentation?
Thanks

thanks everyone - this is all very helpful....
Yes, basically like most people I use 1024 format. HOWEVER there are one or two places with big theatres where I may encounter HD. Also, talking to fewer people, I might be tempted to use my 23 inch Cinema Display (which is basically HD too). Hence the interest in getting it right first time.
If it's better to build big and then scale down then I'd certainly be tempted to take that route. However that might mean building slides that then don't look good when displayed with less pixels. A matter of discipline, I guess, to keep them simple and not too crowded.
Unbelievably, it hadn't occurred to me that some of the slides might be of different proportions!!
Indeed it's complex because no perhaps there is not a single answer. So I appreciate all of your comments and collective experience.
Thankyou!

Captivate 8 (C8) not transferring correct slide resolution from PowerPoint (PPT)

I am tasked with transferring quite a number of PPT presentations into C8. I have come across a few 'bugs' and am trying to solve them, one by one.
Today's issue: slides from PPT are not transfering into C8 with the correct screen resolution. The first thing I noticed about my slide transfer was that the titles in my PPT slides are not in the same position when transfered over into C8, and the font is pixilated. Even when I go into PPT and make changes, save those changes and then update the file in C8, I still have a problem with the titles not being in the correct spot. I know they are off because the titles appear within a band of silver, with a thick, brown bar above them in PPT. In C8, the titles are squished into the brown bar with too much space left over in the silver band -
The title and bands in PPT:
The title and bands in C8:
This is using the default 10" x 7.5" aspect ratio in PPT, and the pixel equivalent in C8 of 720x540. The font is BANK GOTHIC.
(BTW: I found a chart here - I Came, I Saw, I Learned...: PowerPoint: Changing Slide Sizes for Importing into Captivate which is not correct. For instance, this chart suggests a slide resolution of 10.5" x 7" would transfer over into C8 as1008 px x 672px. This size is incorrect; it still produces incorrect slide resolution. And there is no way to use this chart for custom slide sizes).
When I changed the font (to CENTURY GOTHIC), I did get a better result in the position of my title:
PPT new font:
C8 new font:
However, I am still experiencing the pixilation of the font. I closed this project out of C8 without saving and then re-transfered the files. This time, I went with the C8 default resolution of 960x720 - this translates in Powerpoint to 13.333" x 10". NOT the same slide setting I have in PPT, which is 10" x 7.5" however, this looks much better, with less pixilation of the font within the work area. When I publish it out, the pixilation goes away and the font is smooth again.
My conclusion: some fonts do not transfer well into C8, and screen resolutions differ from PPT, Photoshop and C8. If you are having difficulties getting your PPT slides to look the same in C8, it could be your font is not transfering well, or it could be your screen resolution.

Not really an answer, but the big problem IMO is that PPT, although a presentation tool that will use screens (or projection systems) defines a project in printing units (inches or cm) which is totally crazy. Captivate is a bit more normal for that aspect, it uses pixels to define the size. And screens, devices no longer have all 72ppi. Sorry for the ranting...already commented that way when PPT first appeared (used better applications like Freelance Graphics for presentation, they are now killed by PPT). Contrary to Adobe, MS never listens to comments, reported several bugs in MS Project as well, they are still present in the latest version 15years later.

Scanned slide resolution

I would like to create a calendar or book using images that I will scan from slides or pictures. At what resolution should I scan these so that I don't get the low resolution warning. I have experimented with various settings, but iPhoto 6 doesn't seem to like anything that I do.
Thanks.
Carole

If disk space is an issue - buy a new hard drive! You really need to be scanning at your highest resolution possible, and at the largest size possible (without interpolation), and saving as either tiff or eps file format - not jpeg.
On a Mac (maybe PC?), you can save tiffs with LZW compression, which is completely lossless, and can be saved as many times as you like, without further loss, unlike jpeg, which loses a bit of information every single time you re-save. However, LZW is not always compatible with other systems, though. Jpeg, of course, has its place, but saving it many times eventually results in poor quality images.
The key thing is, those large size images are your master images. Create a duplicate of these, and then crop resize, colour balance, sharpen etc etc to your hearts content, safe in the knowledge that you have that nice clean original, should things go wrong, or different projects comes up.

Do different recorded slide resolutions cause an imported FLV Video to Play incorrectly?

I’ve been working on a project involving many captivate files with flv videos inserted into slides I made the slides in Photoshop, I had the same type of project last year with the same client and had similar problems with the flv videos just not running or not running correctly, sometimes cutting off early. This time using Captivate 4 I’m having problems with the videos playing through fine but then stopping and not continuing onto the next slide. To even further complicate this sometimes in preview the video will play and then advance to the next slide and then after publishing the files and playing them they stop advancing and you have to select the play button to continue the presentation.
The setup for these video slides:
Edit the video in avid and export to After Effects.
Process the video in AE adding titles, keying, and exporting using render cue to FLV files
Process and Import the Photoshop slide into Captivate
Set the properties of the PS slide to; on slide enter; continue, on slide exit; advance to next slide.
Import the flv video at 640x480, skin = none, auto play auto rewind, Options = rest of slide, pause slide till end of video.
What I think I found and at least it is working again is, during the recording session with the various business managers while demonstrating their applications they would sometime resize their screens, so instead of recording at 1024x768 they would stop recording and change their screen resolution to 1032x774, to complicate this even further they were all operating their software applications using remote desktops.
I finally imported the slides into Captivate that were recorded at 1032x774 and resized them to 1024x768 during import and kept my resolution the same throughout the problem was resolved and the project played fine so far. The biggest problem I had was with a slide that fell between two slie sizes even though Captivate resized the slides on import and I resized the slide for the project resolution the Video FLV movie slide would play and then stop. I hope I’m making sense with this and I apologize if I’m not.
Is a recorded constant screen resolution critical when editing a captivate presentation and if so why? Is there a way to correct a slide problem in hypertext to force a slide to advance, and if so what program would accomplish this. Thanks in advance.

Hi there
Your answer is likely in the thread you missed looking at.
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Cheers... Rick
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Slide Size Mysteriously Changed

Hi,
I was working on a slide presentation and all of a sudden I noticed in Navigotor mode the thumbnail pictures of the top 2 slides were scrambled and undistinguishable. Then I noticed that the thumbnails seemed smaller for some reason and wondered if I just imagining it. Then, once I closed the document, chose not to save it, reopened... there was a left and right strip of white or "blank" margin on both sides of all of my slides and of the navigator thumbnail pictures were a little smaller in addition to the additional white margins that made them even smaller.
I first went to my "Document Inspector" and wanted to see if I could figure out what might have changed with the slide size but didn't see anything that might cause this to happen.
Is it possible my file became corrupted somehow and now I have to rebuild my whole presentation to remove the white borders and restore proper size to my presentation?
Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Steve

The file is acting as if the slide resolutions were inadvertently increased. This may be a symptom of corruption. You should be able to copy the information off of the slides, but I'm not sure there is a single fix to remedy the situation. Any material that is based on an object on the slide Masters (such as the title box and body box) can be changed across the entire presentation by changing those items in the relevant Masters. Perhaps someone else has run across this and has better advice for recovery.

Trouble customizing theme images for resized slide

I am working with Keystation_eclipse pro theme. I originally chose the 1280 X 720 slide resolution. But I am changing the height to 768 to work optimally with the resolution of my projector. When changed, the background image is scaled but the other "primary overlay" image remains at the 720 resolution. I took the the "primary overlay" image and scaled it to 768 in order to resolve the problem. But now the layout with primary overlay image on the background image is not properly aligned. I have no idea how to resolve this layout situation. Any ideas?
click here to the problem image. You will see the gray bars are not pushed all they to the top as they are in the second image. The bottom bar is pushed halfway off the screen:
http://www.balticsojourn.com/files/768_slide.jpg
click here to see the original image:
http://www.balticsojourn.com/files/normal_slide.jpg
intel macbook Mac OS X (10.4.9)
mini, 1.42 g4 Mac OS X (10.4.2)
mini, 1.42 g4 Mac OS X (10.4.2)

Brian, thanks for the tip. Going back to the Metrix inspector the options were greyed out and so I can't change the coordinates. PLease see link below to see screenshot of the inspector window.
http://www.balticsojourn.com/files/Picture1.png
Mac mini (PPC); MacBook Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Resolution options

Anyone know if there is a way to make slides with resolutions higher than 1024x768?
In fact it would be great if they had a custom resolution option. I guess I should have clarified I have Keynote 2.
It looks as though Keynote 3 has more slide resolution options, can someone clarify this?
-mark

All the versions of Keynote that have shipped have allowed for custom sizes, and actually, I just checked K3 and saw that it does NOT give you a custom option when you're first selecting a theme, but the standard size field is there in the inspector.
What changed with I believe K2 was the ability for Keynote to actually scale your content the way PPT does (K1 simply made the slide bigger, leaving your content where it was on the smaller size slide). The problem is, making a WIDER format slide will have the same effect as K1...that is, your stuff will scale to a point, but not fill the slide left to right. Most users wanting wide formats have ended up making their own themes.

Keynote slides printing puzzle

I've done a lot of work on Pages over the years, but I'm really inexperienced with Keynote.
I want to print some slides (actually web site pages) from a presentation and have each one fill a single 8.5x11 page.
I've read Keynote Help – re: Printing Slides – in detail, but all I seem to be able get is a 5x8 (mol) image to print out.
Is that the biggest I can expect?

Welcome to Apple Support Communities.
Let me suggest another approach that might solve your problem.
Does your printer driver software let you print multiple 'slides' on a single page?
Then you don't have to resize/redesign everything manually.
The Keynote and the printer software do the resizing.
For example, my (monochrome) HP LaserJet 1320 driver can print from 2 to 16 'pages' on a single sheet. (It also offers a 'booklet' option.)
I used a 1024x768 screen slide resolution and selected '4 pages per sheet' (landscape orientation) in the default printer driver under Layout.
In the Keynote options, I selected 'Individual Slide' option, but Keynote also offers Slides with Notes, Outline, and Handout options, and I think all Keynote choices are independent of printer selection. (If I did not select '4-pages on 1' in Layout, the Keynote would only offer 1 slide per page in this view.)
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Elements 4 Slide Show Ordering Prints Online

The PDF slide show can be stopped by pressing ESC. This takes Adobe Viewer out of Full Screen mode, letting people look at the slides one-by-one. Select and copy slides or areas of slides to the clipboard, etc. Nice. (It doesn't stop the music, though.)
Also it gives access to Adobe Viewer's Picture Tasks. When I try to Order Prints Online, an Online Services Wizard starts up, showing Adobe Photoshop Services as the provider of services. The Next button is grayed out, and nothing I can do seems to fix it.
Online Help isn't real great, but it says "The template you use to create the project determines what online service providers are available." There are vague references to older versions of Photoshop Elements.
Questions:
1) Why can't I order prints online?
2) What's this templates business?

Yep, I know this is user-to-user. I've gotten very good answers here, too.
I experimented with the "slide resolution" (or whatever the name of it is). There wasn't much difference in file size between 800x600 and 1024x768, and I couldn't see much difference on the screen. Fonts seemed less jazzy with 1024x768, but it wasn't night and day.
File size ballooned when I went to the next higher resolution. I think the visual quality improved, too, but I can't be sure.
Looks like the higer resolution settings might be good if one distributed the slide show on CD.

Elements 4 Slide Show PDF File Size

My a 36-slide show with music ends up as a 6.76 MB PDF file. Are there techniques for reducing the file size?
My attempts have had mystifying results. I fould that 2 of the original images were multi-megabyte BMP files, so I replaced them one-by-one with much smaller JPGs, and made PDFs after each step. (Miraculously, when I edited the original photos, the edits automatically flowed down into the slide show images.)
When I made the replacements and created new PDFs, the size didn't shrink accordingly. It appears that Elements makes its own JPGs from the photos in the slide show, so the size of the original doesn't matter.
But replacing the first big file with a smaller one slightly INCREASED the size of the PDF, from 6.76 MB to 6.79. Replacing the second one increased it again from 6.79 to 6.80. Small changes, but mysterious.
BTW, taking out the music (built-in looping audio from Elements) reduced the file size from 6.76 to 5.87 MB.
Are there other ways to reduce the size of the PDF file?

Yep, I know this is user-to-user. I've gotten very good answers here, too.
I experimented with the "slide resolution" (or whatever the name of it is). There wasn't much difference in file size between 800x600 and 1024x768, and I couldn't see much difference on the screen. Fonts seemed less jazzy with 1024x768, but it wasn't night and day.
File size ballooned when I went to the next higher resolution. I think the visual quality improved, too, but I can't be sure.
Looks like the higer resolution settings might be good if one distributed the slide show on CD.

What's with the poor quality when exporting a presentation to iDVD

When I exported I choose high resolution preference. The presentation ran perfectly in Keynote, but when I exported it to iDVD it looked horrible- like low res- the same when I burned it onto a DVD just as a test. Also, when I tried another route- exporting to Powerpoint it saved the file as .pps? What is that? None of my others have done that.
G4 Powerbook 17in Mac OS X (10.4.5)

I have iDVD 6 and I exported it - high quality to iDVD. Is that what you mean by iDVD feature?
I read on this discussion something about the slide resolution. I discovered when I first set up the show my resolution was 800x600 and I haven't found a way to change it. I am ready to begin again and set my slide res to the maximum and copy, paste, and resize all my text to fit- then export again. LOTS OF WORK! but I am not sure how else I can resolve this.

CP6 Powerpoint Hi Fidelity Some Graphics Missing!

Hi,
I am so frustrated.....Have been using CP a lot since cp4 and am very experienced. I have a PPTX with animations. I imported into CP6 not usin HiF and everything worked fine but the HTML5 output was missing the graphics altogether. So I switched and re imported as Hi Fi and now the graphics are there, but not animated (see other discussion post).
The issue I am having now is that in my SWF version, yes, even in just preview mode, SOME of the images from my PPT are missing. Any idea what is going on or how to fix it? I have tried changing the slide resolution to high, jpeg and optimized. Nothing helps. Oh please send advice!!!
Thanks,
Lori

Hi Rafiq,
Thank you for help me!
You're right. I published my movie for flash player 8, and
some objects just disappear when they ran on flash player 7.
The problem was the version of the plugin.
Thank you again!
Paulo Gouveia.

Video resizes in keynote

Am using keynote for video playback in theatre show.
When video is played as quick time file it fills the screen exactly.
When played back in Keynote it is a smaller size and does not fill screen.
Have tried adjusting screen resolution and slide resolution to make it fit.
Why does keynote resize video and how do I stop it from doing this?
Thanks for reading and I appreciate advice.
Cheers,

This is not possible in Keynote -- each Keynote slide it treated as having its own instance of the video. There are other presentation applications that allow this, and you might check out Brian Peat's list of presentation software to see if there is a useful alternative suitable for you.

Keynote picture quality

I actually scrap booked in Keynote and used all the transitions and added music. It came out fantastic. I was totally impressed. However I burnt it to a disc and have played it through various DVDs and on my Toshiba laptop and they don't do it justice at all. The colour is shocking and I suppose its the resolution is not right as the pictures are not clear either. Is there anyway to fix this so the quality will be as good where ever I play it. It was such a disappointment after seeing it on my Mac

DVD's which are playable in regular DVD players are limited to Standard Definition (640x480). As a result, anything made with a higher resolution will look either worse or MUCH worse when crunched down to SD.
When exporting a finished (likely with Recorded Timing) Keynote presentation as video, I'd recommend double-checking both the slide settings (to see the project resolution, which would set the maximum possible quality for an exported video version), as well as the actual settings used upon export (which can vary according to user choice, but still -- at best -- only up to the maximum determined by the slide resolution.

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