GRRRR!! Can someone help? I am trying to play the same song across multiple slides in my Keynote presentation. I just upgraded to Maverick on my MacBook Air, and upgraded Keynote (6.0.1). There is no more Inspector, and nothing really makes sense! Surely there is a way to do this than is easier than some of the posts I see from 2008-10?? How come it's so easy on PPT, but not KN?
Thanks for helping!😕
Apple TV, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Setup Inspector > Audio Pane, click music icon, then select a song or playlist
from the soundtrack pop-up menu > Play Once
If the music is to play over slides not at the begining, place all images and the music file in on to a single slide, use Builds to play the music and show images in the order you want.
This is very helpful. However, I'm a bit confused. I already have about 15 slides, and i need to make the music change every few slides (I know it's cumbersome-- don't ask). Do you mean that by the format you provided me, it's only one song for the entire presentation?
I have loads of animations throughout the slide show, too.
When using soundtrack in the Inspector, Keynote can only play one sound file for the whole presentation.
To give a practical example:
I have 3 groups of images, 10 each of water, trees and mountains, total 30 images
images are on screen for 3 seconds each so the presentation lasts for 90 seconds.
I have 3 different pieces of music, one piece to play with each group.
I edit the three music files together so that each piece plays for 30 seconds, and export a single sound file and place that in the audio well of the Inspector. Garageband, Quicktime or iMovie can be used to edit the music.
In Keynote I create an auto transition so each slide plays for 3 seconds each.
An alternative is to put the images and music into iMovie and create a QuickTime movie which will create an
accurately timed and locked presentation.
Of course! Now I understand. Thank you!
Playing audio across multiple slides in Keynote/Maverick
