Comments on: Keynote Comes of Age

By: Christian Fortier

Christian Fortier — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:15:13 +0000

Hi, we used Keynote ‘08 for the presentation with the new Intel Quad-core. we tried running the presentation on a macbook but the videos we had would not play smoothly.

1) Two 2.8GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon (8-core)
2) 4GB (4 x 1GB) RAM
3) 320GB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s
4) NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 1.5GB

Christian Fortier
Autodesk Trade Show Department.

By: Torrey Loomis

Torrey Loomis — Thu, 22 May 2008 06:34:34 +0000

I concur with this entire article.

We sell Keynote along with Panasonic Pro Plasma as an amazing tool for digital signage. We just had a church get six plasmas–including three 65″ displays–and everything runs off a Mac Mini and Keynote.

There is a TON of things that could be done to make Keynote an even more amazing tool. The lack of a timeline is a real challenge in making sophisticated slides.

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By: Wally

Wally — Tue, 13 May 2008 19:33:46 +0000

We use Keynote and lots of video sequences and have been able to create many memorable presentations that go beyond the normal Powerpoint-type stuff.

The key to playing video that does not stutter (in our experience) is to use a codec that has a constant data rate and you need a computer that can handle it. For example, to play back HD video you would need a heavy duty mac pro and fast disks.

We regularly use it with lighter loads and it runs great on a MacBook Pro.

Another thing is that the presenter’s display does add quite a bit of headroom, so don’t use it unless you really need it.

By: Ed

Ed — Tue, 13 May 2008 12:10:06 +0000

Nice work. Even though Motion was not used on this project I think it is cool that you can’t tell the difference between the two apps. You use to be able to tell the difference, maybe it’s just me. Anyway Keynote rocks and I would like to see it expanded also. As far as advance motion graphics for Keynote, there are plugins available. Such as particles and effects.

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 13 May 2008 10:36:04 +0000

I use keynote on a daily basis and find inserting video elements can cause sputtery playback and even flash frames, how did you get on in regards to inserting the video? any chance you could let us know what codec you used for playback?
Keynote is a great advancement over powerpoint and should be developed further, even a “designer” edition with more complex design/motion features for us that would like to push the bound’s….

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 12 May 2008 01:16:53 +0000

Hey guys:

To do the opening part of the presentation, we used Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and After Effects. For the full presentation we used Keynote ‘08. Motion was not used on this project.

Alex.

By: Mike Seymour

Mike Seymour — Sat, 10 May 2008 22:22:43 +0000

We cant post the whole presentation as it has not been released and it was 2 hours long.
I dont think keynote can replace flash but it has come a LONG way from powerpoint hell - style graphics

Mike

By: Ed

Ed — Sat, 10 May 2008 12:06:45 +0000

Would like a link to see the whole presentation. I see that some of the graphic were from Motion 3. Cool. Can Keynote replace Flash for some content on the web? It does have some interactivity such as links. Plus it will play on iPhone where as Flash does not.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 09 May 2008 20:38:33 +0000

Where is the quicktime interview? The only quicktime movie is a sample of animations. And also, did they really use Keynote 2, or was it a more recent version?