Keynote 08 - Linking to videos, rather embedding?

Sorry, I believe that Keynote requires you to import the file.

Tom

Yes, you can "link" to videos (if I understand that correctly). In the Keynote Preferences, under the "General" pane, there is a check box for "Copy audio and movies into document". Make sure it's unchecked.

As Dana said...but...if you have already saved videos in the presentation. You can't override this option. Your stuck with embedding videos. You can't embed some and not others...

Here's my preference on saving. I never save anything in the keynote. The file size stays small and I think the presentation plays better. Then if need be I do a Save As/rename, and embed the files into the keynote. Then I have one file to move from computer to the next (or to share) and another file is still small in size. The smaller files size is easier to edit because there no big over head...my 2¢.

I also do not embed videos or graphics any more for the same reasons David mentions (speed, editing). You can fix a presentation which has embedded video though.
1. create a new presentation
2. copy the slides without video from the old presentation to the new one
3. create a new slide for each video in the new presentation, and drag-and-drop or use the Insert menu as usual.
This is a real pain in the keester if you've got lots of video or images you want to unembed, but it pays off if you'll be using or editing the presentation in the future.

Again Dana is correct!...I have done the same thing. Make a new keynote file and copy the slide from the embedded/video keynote over to the new keynote.

A pain in the.
...but it does have it's merits. i've seen file size drop from 3gigs to 25MB. Doesn't take long to copy the slides over to the new file.

In your Keynote preference make sure in the saving options. that all the boxes are unchecked. You can always modify this when saving a keynote presentation, under the Advance Options.

I wanted to put just a portion of a clip into my Keynote presentation. I opened the clip in Quicktime and exported it as "Movie to Quicktime Media Link." Then I dragged the exported file into a slide. It appeared to me that it put only the link into the Keynote package, not the whole media file -- even though I had other clips that had been imported media and all.

I didn't really like that particular method, I later opted to use the "trim to selection" in Quicktime and export "Movie to Quicktime Movie" and then discard the original file for organizational reasons -- but I mention it because it might be of utility in some other situations.