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Keynote has really long delay for animations

The latest Keynote has really long delay for animations, When i go to my next build it take 2-3 seconds for it to respond. I am on a mid 2011 27-inch iMac, it's an i7 with 16gb of ram.


I've gone back to the previous version for now but really like the cleaner animations and transitions in the new one. It's just too slow.


Is there any way to fix this with settings? or does Apple just need to clean it up and release an update?

iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.1)

Posted on Feb 16, 2014 6:14 AM

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Feb 6, 2015 2:52 PM in response to jbramble

Having a similar problem.


Have a slide with a magic move transition. Duration is 0.2 seconds. Animation is triggered on click and happens immediately as expected.


However, if I create a link to another slide, upon clicking the link, there is about a 0.5 second delay before the transition begins.


Without the transition, but with the link, the slide changes immediately as expected.

Feb 11, 2015 11:44 PM in response to jbramble

This is most definitely a bug in Keynote. I have the same problem when I have a Cinema display connected via Mini Displayport. When I unplug the external monitor, there is no delay. The slides transition instantaneously as expected.

I'm using a top-of-line Macbook Pro that I bought a month ago, so speed is not an issue. In fact, it shouldn't be an issue on a 5-year-old computer.

Mar 19, 2015 3:05 AM in response to jbramble

I have also just suffered this problem. I spent all yesterday afternoon going crazy at my desk trying to work out why a keynote i am assembling had an untraceable 0.5 to 2 second delay in animation response to interaction. In the evening when i got home the prototype worked flawlessly immediately on the same macbook as soon as i tried it, and continued to work all evening, and was still working this morning. However when I got back into the office and booted up the prototype …the chronic delay was instantly back. After a little investigation oddly it turns out that this delay seems to be caused by the second screen being attached to my laptop. I unplug the monitor and the delay is gone. Plug it back in and the delay is back… but even more oddly if I plug in the monitor and *close* the laptop …the delay is gone again. weird. really weird.


Hope that helps someone.

Mar 21, 2015 8:09 AM in response to jbramble

I am having this problem too, I am running a macbook pro retina to drive two outs, one to my main output source as well as a second driving my confidence monitor. The keynote presentation is only about 31 slides but has a lot of builds and movement. When I preview it directly from the machine without output sources. It seems to drive fine, when using multiple outs keynote seems to drag on, sometimes stopping for more like 5-10seconds if not. Its a fresh install of Yosemite, and Keynote, and an early 2014 MBPR. Please advise! This could make keynote non obsolete if the software doesn't get it together.

Apr 1, 2015 12:17 PM in response to Samuel Deckard

I Am also having the same sort of issues. Keynote has pretty much slowed down to the point of not being usable - especially not for actually presenting. Ran Apple Diagnostics and got a clean bill of health (which a 1 year old MB Pro should have). No antivirus or anything installed either. 8GB of RAM and lots of free space on the HDD. Not very impressed with it, will be reverting to Powerpoint and Google Docs as it was unusable.

Keynote has really long delay for animations

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