Triggering Motion file keyframes in Keynote

I am able to place a file from Motion in Keynote. My next step is to trigger the keyframes in the motion file as part of a slide build. Any ideas?

Can't be done directly but if you have a little patience there's a work-around. I use this method a lot with content I produce in Motion.
Let's say you have one Motion project with four phases, each of which you want to start individually. You need to export each one of these separately from Motion as its own movie (using play range is simplest and gives you precise frame positions). Make sure you use same settings on each export.
Now in Keynote you simply use builds for eash of the movies - 'Appear' is the best one and makes it look as though it's just one long sequence. You need to make sure that each movie is exactly on top of the previous one - use the build inspector and guides to help, and I usually lock (Apple+L) each one as I place it to avoid unintentional moves later. Because Keynote holds on to the last frame of a movie, when the new one appears and starts on the mouse click, viewers won't know it's two movies.
This works really well for me, but my clips only have one or two keyframe points. If you had loads then this may be too cumbersome to do, but I'm not aware of any other way.
Hope it helps.
David

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