Movie poster frame flashes at begining of slide in Keynote.

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Movie poster frame flashes at begining of slide in Keynote.

I have movies as part of my presentation that begin with black and then fade up (The build is in the movie, not applied in KeyNote). I've set a poster frame for the movies that is a few seconds in, after the fade up, so that I can tell which movie it is.

However, in Keynote, the poster frame flashes briefly, and then the movie plays, with its fade from black. How can I avoid that first flash of the poster frame, but still have it displayed in my presenter's area?

Keynote-OTHER, OS X El Capitan (10.11.5)

Posted on May 17, 2016 6:20 PM

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Answer 1

May 18, 2016 10:38 AM in response to Rag_and_Bone_Puppets

This is an unfortunate by-product of using a poster frame which is not the first frame of the video.

A workaround is to:

place a rectangle shape on a new slide and size to cover the whole of the video image
add the video to the slide
set the colour to black or an other colour if appropriate
add a Build Out using a dissolve or blur effect (Inspector > Animation > Build Out)
click the build order button and move the shape to the top
set the shape to with previous build
set the video start with Build 1

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Answer 2

May 18, 2016 11:54 AM in response to Gary Scotland

Thanks for that Gary. I wouldn't have thought of that...that should work for me!

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