Keynote Won't Play video on presentation

I also can confirm that the "Allow Expose..." fix has worked. I was having trouble showing .AVI clips inside a KN presentation. Finally figured found a work-around on another forum: convert the AVI files to QuickTIme via iMovie HD export (creating .dv files). That works, but now isn't needed.

Hi All, I am having the same issue. MacBook, video will not play after upgrade to Leopard.

Apple help?

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thanks! that worked for me! the video is working now.

I opened an old Keynote document tonight and one slide refused to play, just showing a black screen. It contains a H264 Quicktime video. I have also upgraded all my software to the latest versions (Tiger) as well, since I last used the document.

However, looking at this forum and checking the Keynote Preference "Preferences>Slideshow>Allow Expose to use screen" as suggested it worked straight away!!!

Better still, I could prove it was the cause because when I unchecked the Preference the black screen problem came back.

Thanks for your help.

I am sure you are all having the same problem. We at Apple are aware of this ongoing problem but have no intention of fixing it. Apple Computer Corp. is a "for profit" organization. We have determined that with all the users of the Keynote product, that we oversold the product with minimal margin. We hope to release a working copy of Keynote once we raise the margins to a level that is acceptable to our bankers. Once we get enough money in the bank, we will slowly try to fix the problems associated with Keynote. In the meantime, please feel to utilize PowerPoint.

THIS WORKED!!

Good looking out.

Thank you from Norway. No Videos and a full audience yesterday. Enabling Expose seem to have done the trick. you really saved my day and the rest of the week.

Greetings from Latvia! Yes, I also feel that this is Apple's attitude - we won't fix it until we are told to do it by Steve himself. Sad... I reported them this issue one month ago and they still havn't fixed it. Today I had to include video in my presentation and again I couldn't see it. This time I decided to go to the Apple Support Forums for help, because I don't feel that Apple is going to solve anything here. And sure enough, I found useful answers from other users! Thank you guys!

Well ... I don't have Perian installed. The "allow Expose" fix doesn't work for me. Any other ideas ... as Apple seems do be doing absolutely nothing about it?

This ongoing issue is apalling... get it sorted Apple. We have no confidence in running QT movies successfully in Keynote 08 any more. Your reputation is dissolving fast.

Hi,

Just like everybody else I am having the exact same problem with my Keynote 08. The thing is that this doesn't happen on my Keynote 06 (Thank God I kept it!!!). I just inserted the same movies in my Keynote 6 and they play just fine. Actually, I realized that the 06 version runs smoother than the 08. I have had several problems with the 08 like shutting down during saving, sometimes I cannot save the presentation at all, shutting down when I copy a picture into the presentation etc. These issues do not happen with the 06. I hope Apple fixes Keynote 08, because it is becoming a pain to make a presentation with it.

Where is Apple on this problem? None of can get video to play in Keynote and they don't even respond? Does anybody have any more info? I am dead in the water. Dead, yet really annoyed. Help!

Try Keynote>Preference>Allow Expose, Dashboard and others to use screen.

All my Quicktime videos run without any problem now!

This totally fixed my issue!!! Thanks! Others should try this & meanwhile Apple should fix QT!

The "allow dashboard and expose" trick did not work for me, either.

What DID work was using QT to export the movie as a divx movie. That is the only solution that I've had any luck with.