Adding audio to a keynote presentation

I'm creating a large keynote presentation with 100+ pictures. I use various songs to play along during the slide show. I know how to get one in but don't know how to change tunes after the song is done. I want to fade one song then play another song with the next slide. I know how to do this in powerpoint but can't seem to figure it out for keynote.
Help!!!!
thanks.

iMac, Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Posted on May 16, 2007 3:40 PM

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Aug 3, 2007 12:03 AM in response to curradob

Hi!

Wow! Wow! Wow!

I'm feeling so betray!!!!
A few days ago, I asked personally to an assistant at the Apple Store of 5th Ave in NY, What do I need to make a nice video with over a 100s digital fotos of my uncle, with several tracks of music, transitions, texts and photos flying and burned into a dvd to be presented at the party using a portable dvd, for his birthday party?,,,,,, and he said: " keynote!!!!! is the right tool to do it!!!!!!,,, bla bla bla bla !, and made a quick presentation of it; and I said: Great! Ok, charge it!!!! I want it!. Thanks. By the way, I asked him, if wouldn't be better to use an specific software named something like picture in motion (in stock) and he said, you will have more with keynote!.

That's the story..... now, today, after 30 slides with fotos, transitions, masks, even video,,,, I don't know what to do!!!!!!

I want my money back!!!!!!!

Time is running, my deadline is August 15th, and I don't know what to do!
Am I using the right tool?
Do I need to buy something instead?
Should I use Windows in another PC?
Please somebody help me!

I tried imove before (with another project), but does not support big amount of transitions, same thing with final cut express, because start stuttering; so that's why I asked for a better tool. Also, I've been making small projects with iphoto, but this one does not accept more than one music's track.

I had seen this kind of videos in other's parties, but didn't ask what software they were using, because they were a professional company business, so they wouldn't tell me. Now I have to do this one because it was an special request from his wife that knows that I love to do videos as a hobby.

Well, I'm stock on these items.

1.- How to put 5 tracks of music in one project with several slides?, I read the workaround using more files for each presentation with the corresponding music and linked them in between, but I don't know how to link it, because I useed the option link to a keynote file at the last slide and nothing happened. Even with the file openned.

2.- How to play QT movies like from iphoto, (because these ones has ken effect and sincronized the music with the photos) or from imovie and made them play after a slide made a transition automatically and then continue with the following slides and music?

3.- Then, at the end, what's all about the sound when transfering to a dvd?, Am I be able to do that?, is it going to be a problem as I read here before?, which are my options for the party? I don't have QT pro. I don't have a laptop mac to present the slide show and clic to move forward.

4.- It is true that keynote has several tools for nice presentations, but masters slides are pretty the same designs in every theme, no brains were broken to do that; users has to make to many changes to them, if doesn't want to show a repetitive boring slide show, like one phot to the right, one to the left, one in the middle. When we have time, good, but when is not?, goes for ppt or pps best no? they have the same designs. This is my first impresion, and I haven't started with charts or tables!.

Well, thank you very much for taking the time to read this, hopefully someone can give me some answers soon, so I could save time if I have to change of program.

Thanks and regards

by the way, I am in Mexico

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