is transition delay limited to max 10 minutes?

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is transition delay limited to max 10 minutes?

I'm trying to make a self-running presentation with slides and short movies in slides. Some of the movies are a bit more than 10 minutes.

Is there anyway to make the transition delay longer than 600 seconds?

Is my only option to split the movies into pieces and put them on separate slides?

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Posted on Sep 13, 2010 12:09 PM

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Answer 1

Sep 13, 2010 12:39 PM in response to Boece

What I have always done is to add a Build In of Start Movie automatically after transition. Then add a Build Out of Stop Movie and adjust the delay to fit the timing of the movie. Then you don't have to worry about the delay of the transition, just have it happen automatically. But, there are two problems with this technique.

First, the delay can only go up to 60 seconds. So with your ten minute movies you need to add a shape, set the fill and line to none and then add build ins and build outs (or actions) to equal the time needed to fit the length of the movie. For example, with your 10 minute movie, you can set the build out for 60 seconds, but then need to add 9 minutes worth of other actions to fill the time, so the build out happens at the end of the movie.

The other problem is that if your movie is exactly 600 seconds and you have 600 seconds of builds, it might not quite end right at the same time. There seems to be a bit of difference in the time from the movie and the builds. So you might have to play with the delays a little to get it to work just right.

Hope that helps.

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Sep 13, 2010 12:46 PM in response to Kelly Coull

On first reading, I'm not sure I fully comprehend this technique, but I will experiment.

But before getting too committed to it ... do you think that these tricks will come across when I import my KN09 into KN for iPad?

(KN for iPad seems to have a lot of gotchas when bring over stuff that works just fine on the Mac.)

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Answer 3

Sep 13, 2010 12:53 PM in response to Boece

I don't have and iPad and have never used Keynote on it, so I can't help you with that at all. If you are having trouble getting it, let me know and I can try to expand.

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Sep 14, 2010 8:03 AM in response to Kelly Coull

I may revisit your technique, but I think for now in the interest in getting my project done, I'm just going to split my videos into less-than-10-minute chunks and put each piece on a separate slide.

KN for iPad has tripped me up so much in this project, that I'm going for the simplest approach possible. Thanks for your help.

I'll leave the question open in case someone knows a direct way of surpassing the 600-second transition limit.

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Answer 5

Sep 14, 2010 8:12 AM in response to Boece

Probably a good plan, good luck.

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Answer 6

Sep 15, 2010 12:57 PM in response to Boece

Hi,

You can make it work by exporting your presentation into a QT movie. Just your video to a slide and define the slide transition. In the exported QT movie the movie included to the keynote will play the entire movie. The defined slide transition will start afther the end of the video. So mostly you can use 1 second or so.

Playing the new created movie in QT, you can loop it.
This may be a solution to your problem.

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Sep 16, 2010 7:08 AM in response to Rutgerhelps

Thanks for that suggestion. If it proves practical for my situation, I will give you a solved mark.

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Oct 18, 2010 3:11 AM in response to Rutgerhelps

I ended up using your solution, though there were a few additional steps I had to discover by experiment with to make it work.

In case iWork '11 doesn't make this easier in the future, I will list the missing pieces here to help others.

I selected all my slides and with the Inspector, used the following "Transition tab" settings: Effect, Dissolve, Duration 1:00 s; Start Transition Automatically, Delay 0.0s.

Again using the Inspectior, this time the "Document" settings for the presentation, I set Presentation to "Self-playing", Delay Transitions 0.5 s, Builds, 2.0s (although I had no builds) and Slide size to 1024x768, since I was using this with a projector.

When I Exported the movie to QuickTime, I set the "Playback Uses" to "Manual Advance" - this is very important! And Formats to "Full Quality, Large". The Audio box was checked or unchecked, depending on whether the movie needed sound or not.

My goal was to play the resulting QT files using my iPad. Oddly enough, I couldn't use Apple's own iPad Video app to do this, but GoodReader app handled the QT movie files just fine. (Go figure!)

The results were very good and my presentation went well. I just wish it would have been possible to do this all with the Keynote program&app on the Mac and iPad. Hopefully, when iWork '11 comes out ...

I should also note that although the above settings work great when the KN presentation is exported to a QT movie, they don't allow the KN presentation to play normally inside KN itself. Each slide with a movie in it will only play for about a second in KN using these settings. But the exported QT movie will play the whole movie on each slide, and then move to the next slide without user intervention and without the need to calculate or enter the duration of the video segments in each slide.

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