Lion and Keynote Problems

Keynote in Lion works fine for me 90% of the time, EXCEPT if I try to add any VIDEO, then it Hangs and I have to force quit it. I'm hoping and guessing it will be fixed soon, I've sent multiple crash reports to Apple.

APPLE PLEASE FIX KEYNOTE IN LION SOON!

Ok, someone else try this.

A complete fluke, but it seems to have resolved the issue. Turn off your WI-FI, or DENY when asked to let Keynote accept incoming communication. Right now on my MBP, the problem has gone away. At least for now. Video is still a little jerky, but not as much as before.

I have been having identical problems. I tried the fix by reverting to 5.05 but then Pages and Numbers crashed under Lion so not really a fix that helped but thanks to those who suggested - I'll try anything as using Kerynote is my lifeblood.

I am amazed that as a community we have known of this problem since July and Apple have done nothing to correct it in over 2.5 months.

Like others I have very large keynote files and as an ADE evangalise the use of Apple in Education. How can I do this if every edit of my slides is torture.

Surely just a fix to disable Autosave and Versions within system prefernces or the Application presenfences would do the trick, it can only be the setting and monitored of a prefernce file.

Lifeblood - I agree, Apple should have sorted this a long time ago. Keynote was a product way ahead of powerpoint - now I'm not so sure and have converted many of my work related presentations to powerpoint as I simple cannot afford crashes.

I agree that the Autosave and Versions features should be a switchable option. I've been working with iWork 9.1/OS 10.7 for a month now on the computer where I don't compose Keynote docs, and I find these features bothersome at times, especially when I'm interacting with a computer that is still running on OS 10.6. Given the problems with Keynote files, this seems to have been an "improvement" that is more of a bother than anything else.

Depend on Keynote for my work. So I am not amused with this:

Followed all possible suggestions, no success. Thought, well, let's go for the good old "verify your disk permissions" with Disk Utilities. Got some allocation errors, fixed them, and since then Keynote didn't crash..... for half an hour. Unfortunately, the problem came back after deleting some pictures in one slide..

Didn't downgrade to 5.05 yet.

Just do the downgrade as per the protocol above. It takes all of 20 minutes and will save you time and frustration. iWork 9.05 works beautifully on OS 10.7. I'm actually considering downgrading my work computer even though I don't do Keynote on that machine. There are many annoyances in the iWork suite on OS 10.7. Keynote is, in my experience, the worst of it.

Just downgrade and be happy again.

Not sure how I do this. Uninstalled Keynote and the rest of iWorks. Downloaded the file from this threat (9.05). But it says it can't be installed. If I try to redownload Keynote from App Store, I get 5.1 version...

Apple using Keynote at their iPhone 4s conference .......RISKY!!!!!!

You must reinstall iWork 09 from a valid iWork 09 installer disk. If you bought the application, you have it. Then go through the updates to 9.0.5.

I'd love to know what versions of Keynote and OS they are using at the iPhone 4s conference. I'm betting it's not 5.1 on OS 10.7. 😀

I have the beachball problem frequently while working with Keynote on Lion. It seems to be associated with making changes in the document and then switching to another app and then back. Seems like a versions issue. Anyway, when I turned of Sophos antivirus on-access scanning, the problem went away. Turn it back on, the problem returns.

I doubt this explains everyone's issues, but are others running Sophos on-access scanning?

After 5 straight hours of various workarounds and reinstalls, this was the only fix for me. My KN presentation is a whopping 7.64 GB and contains 10 .wma files. Using Koenig's script and then reinstalling from iWork 09's DVD seems to work, but I do wonder about the long term stability of this fix without an update by Apple.

According to a prerelease notice, there is a forthcoming OS 10.7 update currently in beta that addresses this problem specifically.

I know some of us who are justifiably frustrated with this problem (this is a piece of productivity software, after all!) might be a bit cynical regarding Apple's responsiveness or lack thereof. I suggest that people make ample use of Apple's feedback forms and leave detailed feedback regarding the performance of their products.

The one for Keynote is here: http://www.apple.com/feedback/keynote.html

My only gripe with Apple in this particular situation is that it didn't simply put out a tech sheet and a packaged temporary downgrade to iWork 9.0.5 for any user experiencing difficulties on OS 10.7. It's far better for users when a company acknowledges a problem and provides a solution, even temporary, rather than make it "go away" quietly with the next update. At the very least, this would acknowledge the inconvenience experienced by users who rely on this software for their work. Shareholders and investors might feel differently, unfortunately.

Amen. Why not just tell us there was a screw-up and they are fixing it?

It definitely helps to get the file under 1 gig, but of course that's one of the reasons we switched to Keynote in the first place: Because it could handle giant film clips and multimedia files.

Oh, well. Will await the OS update. Thanks for letting us know that it's coming. I couldn't find information about that anywhere.