Masking video clip?

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Masking video clip?

Is there any way to mask a video clip in a presentation? i have the clip inserted, but the mask button is grayed out when the video clip is selected.

MacBook Pro 15", Mac OS X (10.5.1)

Posted on Mar 6, 2008 2:55 PM

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Answer 1

gbdoc

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Mar 23, 2008 8:07 AM in response to Jason Toth

Totally inappropriate comment. If you have nothing useful to say, please just say nothing at all. Yeah, I just said dope ...

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Kyn Drake

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Mar 6, 2008 5:46 PM in response to cgraham07

You can't use the mask function to mask a movie, but if you have a simple background, you should be able to draw an shape in such a way that the shape matches the background colors and looks like the movie is masked. Here's a movie I created using Keynote. This is full screen images in front of the video playing on the slide, but the same general idea.

http://web.mac.com/makentosh/tipsfromtheiceberg/Blog/Entries/2006/2/6Reflect_EVERYTHINGfiles/cog.mov

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Answer 3

Mar 22, 2008 5:24 PM in response to Kyn Drake

dope commercial!!! yeah, i just said dope...

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Dan Hamm

Level 2

246 points

Mar 22, 2008 5:37 PM in response to Kyn Drake

This is actually something I am trying to do: have an audio track play all the way through a Keynote presentation. Can you point me in the right direction to see how to do that?

Thank you!

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Tulse

Level 5

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Mar 23, 2008 8:11 AM in response to Dan Hamm

Dan, in the Document Inspector, in the Audio panel, there is a place to drag a sound file or playlist that will play throughout a presentation.

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