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When it comes to slideshow software, the Microsoft and Mac versions allow you to create more than just the simple text-based presentation. With both PowerPoint and Keynote, you can add motion graphics, music or voice tracks, and fancy transitions that make your presentation look more like a movie than a slideshow. If you've created a presentation in PowerPoint and you now want to burn it to a DVD using a Mac, one way to do it is to import your presentation into its Mac equivalent. From there, you can employ the DVD burning features within Keynote or iMovie.
1.Open Keynote on your Mac computer, and then select 'File,' and 'Open.' Select the PowerPoint file you want to use, and then click 'Open.' If you created your PowerPoint presentation on another computer, save it to an external hard drive or thumb drive and then connect that drive to your computer so you can access it on your Mac.
2.Select the 'File' menu again and click 'Export.' Then select 'Export as QuickTime,' give the file a name, and then click 'Export.' It's important to note here that if your presentation contains audio, the video and audio portions will be exported as two separate files. The video will be titled 'title.mov,' while the audio will be called something like 'title_soundtrack.mov.'
3.Open iMovie and then select 'File' and 'Import' to import the video and audio files that you just exported from Keynote.
4.Drag the video and audio files to the Timeline of iMovie, and then line up the audio track with the video track so that they are in sync. Since the two tracks were exported from the same file, they should be the same length; this means you should only have to match the start of the audio track with the start of the video track. If they are not the same length, place the video track on the Timeline, then place your cursor where the audio track should start on the Timeline, and drag the audio track to that starting location.
5.Click the 'Share' menu, and then select 'iDVD.' Follow the prompts to send your project directly to iDVD for burning. Insert a blank DVD-R when prompted. Your DVD will eject from the computer when it is done burning.
Tip
- If your project does not contain audio, you can export it directly to iDVD from Keynote in step 2 by selecting 'Share' and then 'iDVD.'
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I am trying to animate text so that it appears word-by-word. I have followed the steps:
- Create text in a Textbox
- Click
Animations
ribbon - Click
Appear
- In the Animations formatting options, click
Text Animations
- In
Animate Text
, selectBy word
- In
However, when I do this, the animation makes the first word appear, and on the next click makes all of the words appear.
Is there something else I need to change?
I am using PowerPoint v15.24 for OSX
Adam_GAdam_G
2 Answers
There shouldn't be anything else you need to do, although you should perhaps check the Effects Options for the delay between words. Perhaps it is too long.
For this animation you don't click to make each word appear, they appear after a time interval. When you click it will bring everything up at once because the click takes you on to the next item in the animation list, not the next word. So in other words your click says, 'no matter how many words you got around to displaying, move on to the next thing.'
If you want to click to make each individual word appear you'll have to make each word a separate text box and animate it individually.
Morag HughsonMorag Hughson
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I have had luck working around the 'word-by-word' approach by doing this...
- Enter your text.
- Create a rectangle shape (or insert a rectangle picture) that is the same color as the slide background. Arrange the shape/graphic above the text (Bring to Front).
- Select the rectangle and choose a 'fly out' or 'float out' animation, then choose the right direction arrow to make the animation effect go from left to right.
The animation will reveal the underlying text. You can open the animation pane and play with timings. It's also even slicker if the rectangle is created as a graphic with a faded left edge so that, as it flies out, the text seems to fade in as it is revealed.
JasboJasbo