Hi, I’m working in keynote to produce a PPT document. One of my pages has a video that I want to play on clicking. When I place the video, a black area appears, how do I change this black thumbnail preview to a custom image thumbnail.
InDesign, Acrobat, PPT itself I believe (I don’t use it) all allow you to do this, but from intensive searching, Keynote doesn’t?
Does anyone have a solution to this? Thanks.
Keynote does have a poster frame setting:
1 - Click to select the movie on the slide
2 - Go to Inspector ~ Format ~ Movie
3 - Either drag the poster frame handle, or type in the timecode of the frame of the video you want to use
Keynote does have a poster frame setting:
1 - Click to select the movie on the slide
2 - Go to Inspector ~ Format ~ Movie
3 - Either drag the poster frame handle, or type in the timecode of the frame of the video you want to use
There is not a dedicated tool in Keynote to insert a poster frame.
However you can do this manually;
Place a JPEG file on to the slide containing the video, then size and position the image file to match the video.
Add a Build Out effect to the image and adjust the timing as required.
Hi Gary, and thanks for this answer. I was aware of this function but I would like to apply my own custom JPEG as a preview, not a particular frame of the movie itself, is there a way to do this as the other applications allows you to do? Thanks, W
Hi Gary, I’ll give it a go and see if the client will accept it, it’s a pity Keynote can’t adopt the easier way the other apps do it but hey ho. Thanks for your help on this, W
Keynote - How do I change a placed video thumbnail from the default black to an image?
