I have created a narrated slide presentation in Keynote. I want it to repeat after a few minutes and restart. I have hit the "Loop" button, "play automatically" and restart if idle after five minutes. It will NOT loop. It returns to the creation page.
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Looping does not work with Recorded Slideshows, there are three workarounds I use depending on the situation:
1
Do not use recorded slideshow, (clear the recording in Play > Clear Recording) and set the slides to transition at the required time using Delay:
Select the first slide in the Navigator, go to Inspector > Animate, select a transition effect if needed,
in the Start Transition dropdown box; select Automatically
2
In Keynote, select Loop (Inspector > Document > Document > Loop Slideshow) and record the slideshow advancing through the slides until the last slide when it will loop back to the start, you can continue advancing through the slides again for a second pass, you can do this as many times as needed to obtain the required duration.
3
Create a Recorded Slideshow then export to Movie (File > Export > Movie)
Open the movie file in Quicktime Player and set it to loop (View > Loop) it will loop continuously until closed.
Sorry the page timed out before I could send, my full reply was:
Looping does not work with Recorded Slideshows, there are three workarounds I use depending on the situation:
1
Do not use recorded slideshow, (clear the recording in Play > Clear Recording) and set the slides to transition at the required time using Delay:
Select the first slide in the Navigator, go to Inspector > Animate, select a transition effect if needed,
in the Start Transition dropdown box; select Automatically
2
In Keynote, select Loop (Inspector > Document > Document > Loop Slideshow) and record the slideshow advancing through the slides until the last slide when it will loop back to the start, you can continue advancing through the slides again for a second pass, you can do this as many times as needed to obtain the required duration.
3
Create a Recorded Slideshow then export to Movie (File > Export > Movie)
Open the movie file in Quicktime Player and set it to loop (View > Loop) it will loop continuously until closed.
Looping does not work with Recorded Slideshows, there are two workarounds I use:
1
In Keynote, select Loop (Inspector > Document > Document > Loop Slideshow) and record the slideshow advancing through the slides until the last slide when it will loop back to the start, you can continue advancing through the slides again for a second pass, you can do this as many times as needed to obtain the required duration.
2
Create a Recorded Slideshow then export to Movie (File > Export > Movie)
Open the movie file in Quicktime Player and set it to loop (View > Loop) it will loop continuously until closed.
Before making the recorded slideshow, use the following settings:
Thanks for the suggestions!! Will give them a try. I appreciate it!!
I am finding Apple's apps to be increasingly LESS useful. Not allowing looping with recorded slideshows is yet another example. "Workarounds" for everything might be a good signal for Apple to spend a little more time with their programs.
Will try that. Thanks again!! Currently have a friend with a PC with Powerpoint willing to let me re-record directly into a PP file with my slides transferred. Both options mean more time and effort than should have been necessary, had the designers of Keynote considered someone might want a looping slideshow with sound.
Maybe I'm missing something. I followed directions for "3". There is no sound, despite the original Keynote being a recorded one.
Keynote looping
