Magic Move Doesn't Work

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Magic Move Doesn't Work

I am having trouble using Magic Move in Keynote '09. When I duplicate the slide and content, it works when I move only, but if I try to scale it, the transition fades out and back in to the new location. It doesn't create a smooth transition from one scale to the other like it usually does?

Any assistance with this would be greatly appreciated.

MacBook Pro 2.4Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo, Mac OS X (10.5.8), Obdev's Launchbar / Do you WishCentral.com?

Posted on Feb 14, 2011 10:32 AM

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Answer 1

Feb 14, 2011 2:39 PM in response to anastas

If you're trying to do a magic move between two differently sized blocks of text, it just won't happen. If you make the text a picture (either create it in Photoshop/Illustrator etc) or do a shift-command-4 to do a screen grab of a selected area (ie. your text), then drag in the resulting .png file (from your desktop), you can then duplicate the slide and re-scale it. Add your magic move transition and voilà! Magic moves on text only work for moves - not font changes, weight or size.

Also, make sure you don't have any "build in" effect on the second slide - obviously the magic move will not work if the slide it's going to (the second slide) does not already have the item showing on it from the start.

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Answer 2

anastas Author

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Feb 14, 2011 4:21 PM in response to hellopaul2

Thanks for your help.

I checked everything you mentioned and none of those solved the issue. The item is an image without any text on it. I even took a completely different image and the same thing happened... so it doesn't appear to be a result of the image itself. The problem carried over to the new image? However, when I used a completely new slide and dropped the same image into the slide as if I started from scratch, it seemed to create the magic move transition. I also copied in all the text from the previous slide.

I'll go ahead with that hack, it's not really a solution, but it will have to work for now.

Still curious what the problem was, but thank you for your assistance. If you still have an idea of a solution, I would love to know in case it comes up again.

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Answer 3

anastas Author

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Feb 14, 2011 6:07 PM in response to anastas

After trying to work around this all day, I finally figured out what the issue was. Apparently you cannot use Magic Move on two images (one on each consecutive slide) that is scaling WHEN IT HAS AN "Edit Mask" or a cropped area.

Solution: Simply go to Format > UnMask to EACH image

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