Looping SOME slides in Keynote?

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Looping SOME slides in Keynote?

Hi all—

I'd like to have a series of slides looping when an audience enters the space, then transition to the actual presentation (with manual advances) at a non-specific time.

Right now I have two slideshows—the "announcements" slideshow with automatic transitions and looping, and the "presentation" slideshow with the manual-transition slides—and have to close the former and open the latter to switch between them. But of course that means the audience sees the awkward slides-Desktop-slides transition, and it's a lot more keystrokes than just advancing out of the loop to the next slide.

Is there a way to, say, tell Keynote to loop from slide #10 back to slide #1, but to then jump to slide #11 when I tell it to "escape" the loop?

Thanks for suggestions!

MacBook Pro 15”, macOS 10.14

Posted on Dec 29, 2019 5:51 AM

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Gary Scotland

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Dec 29, 2019 7:46 AM in response to David Glasgow

There isn't a feature in Keynote that will loop a group of slides, but this workaround using a looping video works just as well:

in the presentation that contains only the slides to be looped, go to File > Export > Movie
in the dialogue box, set the timing for each slide and build
export the video at the highest quality that will work for your presentation, best quality is achieved using Apple ProRes as follows; in the Resolution dropdown menu select Custom then select the Apple ProRes option and export to the desktop
using a Finder window, drag the movie file from the desktop on to the Navigator in Keynote of the second presentation
with the video file selected on the slide, go to Inspector > Format > Movie: select Loop in the Repeat dropdown menu

When you want to advance to the second slide in the presentation, press the spacebar on the keyboard

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Dec 29, 2019 10:13 AM in response to Gary Scotland

Brilliant. Thanks, Gary!

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Looping SOME slides in Keynote?

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