Adding iTunes Music

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With Keynote 2, you can easily add music to any slide, or to an entire presentation. This allows you to lay down a soundtrack for the presentation.

On most people's systems, the most convenient repository of music will be their iTunes music library. The best way to use files from iTunes is to use the Media browser's iTunes section to find the file you want, then drag that file into Keynote.

To add music to a slide

1.
Go to the slide where you want to add music.

2.
Click the Media button on the toolbar.

The Media browser opens ( Figure 6.1 ).

Figure 6.1. It's easiest to choose music for your presentation from your iTunes library, available in the Media browser window.


3.
If necessary, choose iTunes from the pop-up menu at the top of the Media browser.

4.
Click a song name to select it.

5.
(Optional) If you want to preview the song, click the Play button.

6.
Drag the song file onto the Keynote slide.

A sound icon appears on the Slide Canvas ( Figure 6.2 ).

Figure 6.2. The music file appears on the Keynote slide as a small speaker icon.


This icon will not be visible when you play the presentation.

To add music to an entire presentation

1.
In Keynote, if the Inspector is not visible, click the Inspector button on the toolbar to open an Inspector window. Then click in the Inspector toolbar to open the Document Inspector ( Figure 6.3 ).

Figure 6.3. You'll drag the song you want as your presentation's soundtrack into the Document Inspector's sound well.


2.
Click the Media button on the toolbar.

The Media browser opens.

3.
If necessary, choose iTunes from the pop-up menu at the top of the Media browser.

4.
Click a song or playlist name to select it.

5.
(Optional) If you want to preview the song or playlist, click the Play button.

6.
Drag the song or playlist icon into the sound well in the Audio section of the Document Inspector.

7.
(Optional) From the pop-up menu in the Audio section of the Document Inspector, choose Play Once (which plays the song or playlist through once; if your presentation is longer than the song file, silence will reign over the end of your presentation) or Loop (the song will repeat as many times as necessary to match the length of your presentation). You can also adjust the volume of the song clip with the Volume slider. If you prefer, you can preview the song clip with the Play button.

Tip

  • You can see the name of the song clip or playlist in the sound well by hovering your mouse pointer over it. The song name appears in a tooltip ( Figure 6.4 ).

    Figure 6.4. Place the mouse pointer over the sound well to see the name of the clip.



Playing music

Sound files that you put onto slides will begin playing immediately when you run the slideshow and switch to the slide. Keynote doesn't have controls that allow you to directly set a delay in playing media files. There is a workaround to get a delay before your media file begins playing, however. You can move the sound icon onto your slide using an object build. This allows you to delay playing the sound until the sound object appears on the slide. See "Creating Object Builds" in Chapter 9 for more information.

Thank you, QuickTime!

Keynote uses QuickTime, Mac OS X's media architecture, to read all types of media, from pictures, to sounds, to animations. As a result, you can import—and Keynote can use—any type of media that QuickTime can handle. A complete list is too extensive for this book, but for a list of the most common media types QuickTime can handle that you might use in a presentation, see Table 6.1 .

Table 6.1. QuickTime Media Types

C ATEGORY

F ORMAT

C OMMENTS

Images

BMP

Windows bitmap images

GIF

 

JPEG

Used for photographs; used by iPhoto

PDF

Portable Document Format, AKA Adobe Acrobat file

PICT

Old Mac vector graphics format

PNG

Portable Network Graphics; native file format for Macromedia Fireworks

PSD

Adobe Photoshop file, will import layers

TIFF

 

Sounds

AAC

Compressed music and sound format used by iTunes 4 and later

AIFF

Audio CD format

MIDI

 

MP3

Compressed music and sound format; used by iTunes

WAV

Windows audio format

Video & Animations

AVI

Windows video format

DV

Most DV camcorder formats

Flash 5 (SWF)

Also earlier versions

MPEG-1

 

MPEG-4

 

QuickTime Movie (MOV)

 

Quartz Composer animations

Works only on Macs using Mac OS X 10.4 or later



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Keynote 2 for Mac OS X. Visual QuickStart Guide
Keynote 2 for Mac OS X. Visual QuickStart Guide
ISBN: 321197755
EAN: N/A
Year: 2005
Pages: 179

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