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Including sound and other media, Using the media browser – Apple Keynote 2 User Manual

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Chapter 3

Working With Text, Graphics, and Other Media

Including Sound and Other Media

You can add sound files to your project so that, for example, recorded music plays

throughout your slideshow or a narration accompanies each slide. You can also add

video or Flash movies that play within a slide.

Keynote accepts any QuickTime file type, including the following:
 MOV

 FLASH

 MP3

 MP4

 AIFF

 AAC

 MPEG-4

Important: When you add a media file to a slideshow, the file does not automatically

become part of the Keynote document. This feature keeps your Keynote document

from becoming too large. As long as you play the slideshow on the computer where

you created it, you see the media files play where you placed them. However, if you

want to play your slideshow on a different computer, you can save media files as part

of the document, so that you can transfer the slideshow to the other computer

without transferring the media files separately.

To save media files as part of your Keynote document:

1

Choose File > Save As.

2

Select “Copy audio and movies into document.” (You may need to click the disclosure

triangle in the Save dialog to display this checkbox.)

3

Type a title and choose a location for the document, then click Save.

Note: Including media files in a document makes the document file much larger; you

may want to save the media files with the document only immediately before you

move or send the slideshow.

Using the Media Browser

The Media Browser lists all the media files in your iPhoto and iTunes Libraries, and in

your Movies folder. You can drag an item from the Media Browser to a slide or to an

image well in one of the inspectors.