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Quicktime Movie Encoding Settings Using Apple's Keynote 08

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October 14, 2008 06:38 PM  Views:353   Favorited:0 Comments:4
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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.

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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



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