'Pan' across an image

The only way I know to fake this in Keynote is to cut the image up across several slides and use a VERY slow push transition so it appears to pan the image. The only problem might be that you'd most likely see a slight pause as it gets to one slide before it starts the transition again to the next one.

Another way to do (almost) what you want is with a Move Out build for the image:

- Drag the original image onto a Keynote slide, size it vertically how you like, and move the left edge of the photo to the left side of the slide. The image will run way off the right edge of the slide, but that is fine.

- In the Build Palette of the Inspector, choose Build Out for the image, and select the Move Out effect. Select the direction of the effect as Right to Left, and adjust the time of the effect however you like.

When this effect is run, the image will move from right to left across the slide. The only downside is that it will run completely off the left edge, which may not be ideal for what you want. (Keynote desperately needs animation paths.)

As far as image sizes go, I stitched together an 8000 X 528 TIFF image (12.1 MB) from the Mars panorama, and it worked just fine.

PowerMac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.4)

I suppose too you could use something like Photo2Movie to create an animated movie that is your image panning. That would probably work the best actually.

Brian, good hint, thanks!

Doug, if you've got Roxio's Toast, look into the Toast Software folder (e.g. Toast 6 Titanium Software) for "Motion Pictures" which is similar to Photo2Movie.

If a quicktime movie would do, then you can do that in iPhoto.

Harry

Ok, I played around with this and I think I found a work around. Here is what to do:
1) Choose a solid color background as your theme and pick a Blank master slide
2) Take the image you want to show and, in iphoto duplicate the image and crop each one of them as follows: 1) The first one will be cropped to half of the image in the following way: from left edge to center of image. The second one will be cropped from right edge to SLIGHTLT TO THE LEFT of the center of image. If done right there should be a slight overlap of the image when placed next to eachother. This will be useful later when creating a build-out and build -in of the two images simultaneously, you would not see a discontinuity between the two animations.
3) Now create two shapes as vertical rectangles the size of the slide and place one on the left edge of the slide and the other on right edge of the slide. These will serve as masks of the images. Therefore, pick the same color for the shapes as the slide backgroud (in my case it was solid black). The size of the left shape should be identical to the size of the image that is set to build out. The shape should be placed flush with the left side of the slide. This way, it would completely mask the first image as it goes through the full move-out animation. Make sure these shapes are set Front of slide (highlight shapes and click Arrange-->send to Front) so the images move under the shapes and create a mask effect.
4) Import both images onto slides. set the "left" cropped image with a BUILD OUT of "move right to left" and set the "right"cropped image with build IN of "move right to left".
5) Play around with duration and delay of both builds to get what you want. For example, the builds should happen at the same time with a longer duration on the build out of first image and a shorter one for the build in on the second image. Delay should be able to make the transitions pretty smooth.

I was able to get it pretty darn close to the real thing.

I hope I did not confuse anyone with the instructions.