Panning pictures within a picture frame

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Panning pictures within a picture frame

Is it possible in Keynote 08 to pan & scan on a picture, but within a frame ?

I know you can always create a movie with Ken Burn effect in iPhoto or iMovie and then import it in Keynote. However, videos cannot be framed as picture do ?

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mac pro, Mac OS X (10.5.4)

Posted on Jul 4, 2008 5:22 PM

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Jul 5, 2008 12:44 AM in response to kappler

What do you mean videos can't be framed, explain?

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Jul 5, 2008 12:55 AM in response to David M Brewer

Oups, my mistake... Videos can be framed.
However I couldn't find any way to make a picture move within a frame. I don't want the picture to move on the slide.
Is it possible ?

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Jul 5, 2008 5:10 AM in response to kappler

Maybe you could experiment with the Export to Quicktime in iPhoto - it makes a .mov from pictures but it doesn't allow all the effects of on screen slide shows - but perhaps you could cheat with multiple copies of the picture? Or use a screen grabber to capture an iPhoto screen show of the one picture moving??

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Tulse

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Jul 5, 2008 2:42 PM in response to kappler

One way to do this would be to create a full-slide graphic that includes the frame, with a "hole" where the photo should go. You would then place the graphic on the slide, place the photo behind it, and use a Move action to move the photo. A graphics application like Photoshop or Graphic Converter can create the appropriate graphic.

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Jul 5, 2008 4:10 PM in response to Tulse

This could be the closest thing to what I'm looking for. In fact, it comes down to "masking". I didn't think of it in those words before, but when I now search the forum for "masquing" I found essentially the same question here:

http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=7099211#7099211

It would be very powerful though to be able to apply separate build effects to an image and its mask. But I realize now that Keynote may not have this feature.

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