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Adjusting media playback settings – Apple Keynote 3 User Manual

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Chapter 3

Working With Text, Graphics, and Other Media

Note: To ensure that the audio plays on other computers, “Copy audio and movies

into document” must be selected in the expanded Save dialog. This option is on by

default.

When your slideshow plays, the movie starts the moment the slide appears. A movie

control panel appears on the presenter display, but its controls vary depending on the

size of your movie. For details, see “Viewing Movies” on page 159.

Adjusting Media Playback Settings

In the QuickTime Inspector, you can set the playback volume for sound and movies in

your slideshow, and specify whether to play media files once, continuously, or forward

and backward (Loop Back and Forth).

To set media playback preferences:

1

Click Inspector in the toolbar (or choose View > Show Inspector), and then click the

QuickTime Inspector button.

2

Click the movie to select it, then drag the Volume slider.

3

Choose an option from the Repeat pop-up menu.

You can also specify which frame of the movie to display on the slide (called the

“poster frame”) until the movie starts playing.

Set playback repeat
options.
Set the playback volume.

Select the frame to
display until the
movie starts playing.

The QuickTime

Inspector button

Use these controls to
view the movie as you
edit your slideshow.