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by: Dan Bargen
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Overlapping Transitions & Action Tree
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Apr 6, 2008 10:40 PM
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I haven't used keynote for a transition-heavy setup in a while, but now I'm going to start setting up some custom slide shows for clients. At the moment, I'm trying to utilize the new animation abilities to create custom ken-burns effects to highlight areas of photos. Essentially, this requires the "dissolve" function to start at the same time that the "move" action occurs, and the second "dissolve" transition to end at the same time the "move" action ends.
In previous versions of Keynote, we could set build times to make this happen, but it seems we're only allowed to specify actions to happen "on click" and "immediately after build x." Am I missing something here, or has apple disabled this ability? I know iMovie can create this effect, but I'd like to be able to control exact positions and move times.
If you know a way around this, or can give word that this is currently a deficiency with no solution, please tell. To save you a post, yes, I just got the Keynote update. Kudos to Apple for giving us more control with animation actions, but taking out timing would be a big step in the wrong direction.
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Re: Overlapping Transitions & Action Tree
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Apr 8, 2008 2:02 PM
in response to: Dan Bargen
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yep. You can do builds at the same time, and you can do actions at the same time, but you can't do an action AND a build. On top of that, you can't bring up the opacity of something to 100%, you can only move it from a 100 opaque point downward. At least if you could set start and finish points on the opacity, you could do what you're wanting to do, but Apple hasn't given us that yet.
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Re: Overlapping Transitions & Action Tree
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Apr 10, 2008 11:07 AM
in response to: Brian Peat
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I've tried to utilize only actions to create this Ken Burns effect, and I can get pretty close, except for the very last bit. Here's the method so far:
1. drop picture on black slide and resize to full-resolution
2. add opacity action, set to 100
3. set up move action
4. add opacity action, set to 0
5. select image and set opacity in the graphic pane of the inspector window to 0
This seems to work just fine as long as you set the slide transitions to nil and have it run automatically. The one problem is the last opacity action (step 4). I would have the move action occur 'with build 1,' which is exactly what I was looking for. However, this ability is not allowed when trying to link the section opacity action with the first action, on a delay. It's showed as a non-grayed out option, but won't let me select it. At this point, I'm so close to getting this working I can taste it.
Anyone know why I can't select this action transition option? That sounds like a feasible enough question for these forums. Please answer soon!
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