Ken Burns with Keynote

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Ken Burns with Keynote

I have put together a 50 minute educational slide show in Keynote that uses a mixture of digital photos and charts with manual advance. Some of the photos are of landscapes and I would like to be able to use the Ken Burns effect with these images. I can do what I want with these images in iPhoto but not apparently in Keynote. Does anyone know of a reliable way of importing into Keynote a mini slideshow of about 20 photos each incorporating the Ken Burns effect? Many thanks.

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.5)

Posted on Jan 10, 2009 5:05 PM

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Kurt Weber

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Jan 10, 2009 5:16 PM in response to Robin White

Easiest way is to use iMovie. It gives you some nice control over the effect. Drag picts into iMovie's clip section, select a pict and click on the crop tool. The select Ken Burns. Boxes appear which you can move to set the direction and zoom of the effect. Give the pict a little more time if you have a long way to move it.

When you are finished export the movie to flash or Quicktime to drag into Keynote.

Kurt

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Robin White Author

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Jan 13, 2009 3:47 PM in response to Kurt Weber

Many thanks Kurt for your quick reply. The purpose of my slide show is to promote a coffee-table book on conservation photography. The show will be presented to public audiences on large screens using a high quality Canon projector with a resolution of 1400x1050. I have no previous experience with iMovie. Will importing certain images (mostly landscapes) into iMovie, applying the Ken Burns effect and then exporting them to Keynote via Quicktime, maintain in those images the same size and quality of projected image as the rest of my Keynote presentation? My impression is I will lose quality, but I hope I'm wrong.

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Kurt Weber

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Jan 14, 2009 12:07 PM in response to Robin White

I have not worked at those resolutions so I couldn't tell you. If you choose the "export using Quicktime" there are several quality HD options up to 1920x1080. Experiment with one picture and see how it comes out. Since Apple has supported HD the quality should be excellent.

(You may also want to post this in the iMovie section.)

Kurt

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Jan 18, 2009 11:16 PM in response to Robin White

When outputting to QT choose H264 as it halves the data-rate required compared to other compression codecs. HD has a lot of pixels to render and frame rate may suffer. On my mac I can't get smooth playback with HD QT/animated/lossless for ex, but H264 is fine.

Why not do a Ken Burns Effect in Keynote itself. Ken Burns effect is simply a move and/or a zoom at the same time. Note if scaling up in Keynote anything above 100% gets effectively pixelated. There is a work around if you need it to get full-res when scaling up.

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Kurt Weber

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Jan 19, 2009 4:06 PM in response to wideEyedPupil

I think iMovie is easier. I have been creating DVD slideshows of a bunch of pictures and can do it very quickly in iMovie. Drop the pictures into iMovie and get to work. (Dropping photos into the Keynote slide window will also allow you to import many picts at once.)

Keynote gives you more options as far as transitions and builds and has a Share with iDVD (09) or Export to iDVD(08) option.

Kurt

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