Is there a way to listen to the narration recorded on individual slides?

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Is there a way to listen to the narration recorded on individual slides?

I have a couple of long Keynotes with long narrations. I want to double check just a single slide many minutes into the narration.

Is there any way to jump to narration of an individual slide?

I had been using Breeze/Adobe Presenter and one of the nice features is the ability to listen to and edit individual slides.

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.4), iPhone 3Gs; iPad

Posted on Jan 16, 2011 1:05 PM

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Nealf Author

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Feb 23, 2011 8:20 AM in response to Nealf

I never found a way to preview the recorded narration on a single slide in Keynote. This still seem very odd to me that cannot start in the middle or at least fast forward to a point. I did find a work around.

Remove narration track, edit, and reinstall as a soundtrack

Right click the Keynote file and choose open package content. You will see the narrationTrack0.m4a which you can then open in GarageBand, edit it and save it as a m4a. Then add it to Keynote as the Soundtrack (Inspector>Documents>Audio Tab).

When you go to add the soundtrack back in, it will ask if you want to edit the show since you have recorded the timing and you just say yes. It will not affect the timings you have recorded, so all should still work fine.

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