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Quicktime Movie Encoding Settings Using Apple's Keynote 08	1votes
October 14, 2008 06:38 PM	Views:6807 Favorited:0 Comments:21


Author: Steve Sherron	Filed Under: Quicktime Movie
Website: Frugal PR	Tags: Keynote 08, quicktime encoding settings, quicktime movie

I have recently started exploring Apple's Keynote 08 that came as an included software program in my MacBookPro. This is a great presentation software that is Apple's answer to PowerPoint. As I dove into this program, what really intrigued me was the ability to turn a presentation into a quicktime movie. To me, this opens up tons of possibilities with this program.

What I would like to speak to today is how to export a Keynote presentation into a quicktime movie and the settings that I use. Recently, I uploaded a quicktime movie to Exposure Room that had no audio. The video itself played perfectly on my MacBook. I tried several times and the video played perfectly but had no audio. I e-mailed Shiv Kumar about the problem and I was put into touch with support. Shiv asked me about my encoding settings and it was then I went back and started exploring where the problem may be.

Here are the settings I personally use when exporting a Keynote 08 presentation into a Quicktime movie.

The main point I want to get across to you is the fact that you must set your audio encoding settings to AAC before exporting. If you do this, you should not have any problems hearing your audio on exposureroom.com. I hope you will find this tutorial helpful.

Comments

Psachya Skaist

December 10, 2008 09:30 PM

EXCELLENT! This helped me so much. Just wanted to add that I used the AAC Mpeg 4 option (I was embedding an Mp3 song as a soundtrack) and it worked for me.
Thank you so much for taking the time to put this out there.

Steve Sherron

December 11, 2008 07:35 AM

You are very welcome. I'm glad this helped you.

Steve

Mark Alan Effinger

December 28, 2008 12:04 PM

Finally - a REAL Keynote to Quicktime fix...

Hi Steve - Thanks a ton.
We use Keynote extensively for creating videos for distribution. We've been struggling with this export issue for forever. Because we use variable export settings depending on quality, target file size and audio source, it's been intermittent (which is the most challenging to debug).

Really appreciate your insights into this.

Best,
Mark Alan Effinger
http://www.RichContent.com

Marlene Hielema

December 31, 2008 11:20 AM

Keynote to Quicktime

Hi Steve. I also have this "no audio" problem when exporting from Keynote to QuickTime, so I made a small test file with 2 simple pages, including a photo and voice over recording and it exported perfectly with audio intact. It also worked when sending directly from Keynote to YouTube.

I tried your above settings on my "good" file and the audio did not export. This suggests that it is something in the Keynote presentation that negates the audio. Maybe it's the builds or maybe the file is too large (at 31MB). I also got errors on that "good" file when sending directly from Keynote to YouTube. I'm going to keep troubleshooting and I'll let you know when I figure something out. Cheers, Marlene

Gregory Kudanovych

January 12, 2009 09:37 PM

none

I noticed that if I make a Keynote presentation of just two slides it seems to export to quicktime with the sound. If I get up to four or five slides that is when I start having problems. No sound on export. So the size of Keynote may be a factor.

Steve Sherron

January 12, 2009 09:51 PM

Gregory, tell me the audio you are using. A song?

Gregory Kudanovych

January 12, 2009 10:18 PM

I actually didn't leave that comment, must be a bug in the system that used my name in place of someone elses. Not sure how that could happen but it did. I don't even know what keynote is.

Orbital Flyers

February 05, 2009 08:58 PM

I'm sorry you had trouble, but I'm glad I could help a little. I'll take a Blue Moon with a wedge of orange in a frosty mug!

Steve

Jean-Michel Ferrard

May 09, 2009 05:26 PM

Merci Beaucoup

Thanks so much for this solution. I spent hours trying to understand why some of my audio tracks were missing after the Keynote=>mov export, and you gave me the answer.

Jean-Michel, from Paris (France!)

George James

December 14, 2009 11:00 AM

Georgejames.org

Steve, after 2 months of trying to convert my Keynote to quick time and hours on the phone with apple tech support, a friend sent me your article which turned on a light bulb of hope. For this I say Thank YOU!!!!!!!!
For my background I have graphic animated in qt, that's 18 sec, plus the writing and the animation. I'd like to record, again and try your settings. Questions: Can I still use "click" mode as I record or do I set to automatic advance?

Thank you for your advice.

Anthony McGregor

February 28, 2010 04:15 PM

Hi
Thanks for this article. I started using Keynote 08 for recording lectures and had no issues exporting to quicktime (except the timing sometime went out of sync if I moved my slides backwards during the presentation). When I upgraded to Keynote 09 the narration track file size leapt up to somewhere in the region of 1Gb for a 50 minute lecture! This makes the file sizes for the exported recordings enormous. I'd really like to know how to change the audio settings so the narration track doesn't record at over 2000 kb/s! Any ideas?

Steve Sherron

February 28, 2010 04:40 PM

I'm sorry, but I can't offer advice on this. I rarely add audio anymore to a Keynote presentation. There is just not enough control over the audio. Now, I save a presentation without audio to Quicktime and import it into Final Cut Express and add audio while editing. This gives me total control over the audio. Once finished, I encode to H.264 which greatly reduces the file size without sacrificing quality. If you have a video editor, I would suggest pulling it into your editor and compressing it. This would solve your problem of such a large file size.

Steve

Paul Hara

May 11, 2010 10:53 AM

Thanks for this wonderful tutorial. I had been having problems with exporting Keynote with sound to Quicktime and then converting to flv. The sound would be distorted during the conversion to flv. Your settings solved my problem.

Chelsea

June 24, 2010 12:38 PM

Problemssss

So I go to "Export" and the default tab is the quicktime player, right? well, when i select what i want, i click next, but it makes that little error sound and removes what i have for "slide duration". i made the mistake of using keynote as a way to present my stop-motion film, so both that and "build duration" is set to .1 seconds which is alright. I just need to know why is it doing this and how can i fix it. I'd love the help! ???

Mike Bowen

June 29, 2010 10:41 PM

Thank you!!!!

Thank you for this post, for a minute there I almost lost my mind!! I have been using Keynote to export little teaser movies and animations and for the life of me could not figure out WHY the sound would not "MIX" with the movie. I tried everything knowing full well that I successfully did this before, more than ONCE! I found that Keynote, by default, reverts the audio type back to Linear PCM, which I didn't notice...its either that or fixed timing that actually mixes the audio into the movie. Either way your post helped me from pulling hair out - so thank you!

Adrita Rahman

November 02, 2010 10:32 PM

problem

Hi! Despite several attempts and listening to your instructions I am having a problem: When I set my ppt slideshow on keynotes, the music was supposed to evenly play throughout my whole show and it even did when I saw the slideshow. However, after turning it into a movie, the entire song plays throughout just the FIRST slide and then it plays from the beginning from the 2nd slide onwards and then plays throughout the whole show in the normal manner (but that only happens when I press loop, when I press play once the entire song plays just during the 1st slide and then the next slides play without audio). What do I do? I can't seem to figure out the problem.

Rhonda

December 10, 2010 08:27 AM

delay after video

I have an 18 slide Keynote presentation with three 18 second videos on three consecutive slides. The first one has audio. Using recorded timing, the third video stopped halfway through and went to the next slide. The timing was screwed up on the rest of the slides and the last two slides just didn't export at all. I tried your settings and everything works great now (ThAnK YoU!), except there is a twelve second delay after all three videos, even with the slide duration set to 1 second. All the other slides keep the same delay I set in Keynote with one second added, but the videos just sit there staring at me for 12 extra seconds. Any advice or condolences?

January 28, 2011 09:09 PM

Thanks!

The "Mix Audio" advice finally fixed a problem that's been frustrating me for days. Thanks so much!

Arpad Csapo

May 31, 2011 06:50 PM

low quality

I noticed my quality is much improved but still low compared to the actual presentation on my mac screen. I would like for it to look the same. Is this possible?