Animations and interactivity

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Animations and interactivity

There has been some criticisim of early submissions from iBA for their lack of interactivity/animation.

I have been having great sucess using Keynote to generate animated files for use in iBA. I have generated some very snappy Intro Media files by creating a 1024x768 slide, animating to my heart's content and then exporting as quicktime video (converting to Apple TV format so iBA accepts it). I have also played some very complex Keynote presentations via the Keynote widget.

I have the advantage of being quite proficient at Keynote (and keynote animations in particular) but if you're haing trouble getting some pazzazz into your book take a look at generating some stuff in Keynote. It's very cool!

iBook Author-OTHER, Mac OS X (10.7.2)

Posted on Jan 27, 2012 3:15 AM

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Answer 1

Jan 27, 2012 4:13 AM in response to trilogy1000

You can create interactive content for iBooks with Tumult Hype, as well as Adobe Edge.

See here for more info:

http://ibooks.multimedial.de/doku.php?id=media:html

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phantem

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Feb 5, 2012 11:10 AM in response to trilogy1000

This is a great idea! -- however, when I export from Keynote, it gives me a .mov file that I can't seem to transcode via Quicktime. The only thing I see as a possible cause is that the files it generates also use the sprite and text codecs...

Can you provide more details on your settings for export from keynote?

Thanks!

Chris

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trilogy1000 Author

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Feb 5, 2012 2:05 PM in response to phantem

Open the .mov file in Quicktime and use the export option to convert Movie to AppleTV. You'll end up with an .m4v file which can be used in iBA.

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phantem

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Feb 5, 2012 3:02 PM in response to trilogy1000

When I chose to Keynote > Export, then select the Quicktime tab, there are options there that needed adjustment. If i just choose 'Playback Uses: Manual Advance', the resulting .mov file can't be transcoded into a .m4v file. If I choose 'Fixed TImings', and 1 sec for the SLide duration, that achieved the result I was looking for.

Thanks for the suggestion.

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purdyboy

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Feb 5, 2012 8:47 PM in response to trilogy1000

trilogy1000 - Thanks for this info. I've been researching and pondering what's the best way to do a more interactive and animated book. First book is planned to be a picture book, where lots of interactivity, sounds, and animations would be helpful.

A few questions:

I know Keynote and Pages fairly well, but haven't done animations in Keynote. Do you know of any resources with more info on advanced Keynote techniques?
I've seen in these forums the "page" size for iBA as 1024 x 768, but some have noted and I have experienced that iBA itself seems to create horizontal pages at 1024 x 748. Any guidance on page size?
And... does iBA consider the entire 1024 width to be two pages? That is, does it automatically put the "virtual shadow" down the middle of a book at 512 pixels?

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edteck

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Mar 5, 2012 4:52 AM in response to trilogy1000

I'm an experience Keynote user for live presentations. I've used some animations - but tend to keep presos simple.

Now I'm interested in using Keynote animations for iBook author. Can you recommend any good guides or examples of animation technique in Keynote? Perhaps share a sample of your work?

Thanks

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Answer 7

Mar 8, 2012 1:30 PM in response to purdyboy

The iPad status bar takes up 20 pixels when showing ibooks' pages so it's 1024 x 748 when in landscape mode. Videos take up the entire screen so they can be 1024 x 768.

Charles Stack

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K T

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Mar 8, 2012 1:40 PM in response to edteck

As suggested, you might want to take a close look at 'Hype' - in the (Mac) App Store, as I recall.

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