Where does Keynote store the audio files in a presentation

I have slides with individual audio files. When I import or attach the file and then save the presentation, it changes the file name to .mov extension. Where does Keynote store those files? I would like to edit the saved Keynote version, but cannot locate the .mov file!

MacBook Pro 15", Mac OS X (10.6), MacBook Pro 2.2, 4gb

Posted on Jun 11, 2010 12:49 PM

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Lauri

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Posted on Jul 9, 2010 12:21 PM

If you want to see the contents of a Keynote 9 file, you change its name from "file.key" to "file.zip". Then you can unzip everything to a folder. The music file I embedded was made into an ACC sound Quicktime movie. I suppose you could edit this file, if necessary, and replace it. Then recompress this folder back into a zip archive and change the filename back to "file.key". Try THAT with Powerpoint, lol. I do this a lot when I need to extract images out of a presentation someone else made, especially when it was originally a ppt file.

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Lauri

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Jul 9, 2010 9:33 PM in response to Lauri

To be fair, you can do something similar with pptx files by renaming them to .zip. This is handy when you want to change the slide size without distorting the placed images by editing the xml file. So many times, we've told people the show is widescreen but the speakers provide 4:3 ppts and it's my job to reformat them all.

Jul 18, 2010 9:39 AM in response to llhjunk1

When you have an Audio file, my case an iTuns file, just drag the file off the file and "POOF" it's gone.

Is that what you wanted?

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