Creating a Narrated, Self-Timed Video of Your Slide Deck

Quick reference

• 00:04 In all the time that I've worked with client in Keynote,
• 00:08 either building slide decks or providing training, there's one feature that
• 00:12 always generates a wow response, and that feature is slideshow recording.
• 00:17 It's amazing to me that more people don't know about this feature, but
• 00:20 once they do I've seen some really amazing things done with it.
• 00:24 In some cases, it may not make sense or be practical for one reason or
• 00:29 another to deliver a presentation in person to a live audience.
• 00:33 In some cases, it makes more sense to design, create, and
• 00:37 deliver a presentation by email.
• 00:40 It could be that you need to deliver the information to a dispersed audience in
• 00:43 multiple locations, or it could be because you want me to
• 00:47 articulate how the presentation is delivered just right,
• 00:50 to make sure that your message is conveyed in a particular way.
• 00:53 Regardless, this feature will certainly help.
• 00:56 Let's dive right in, and I will explain things as we go.
• 01:00 First, let's open a presentation that we want to record.
• 01:04 Next, we begin our recording session by going to Play > Record Slideshow.
• 01:10 What you see next should look very familiar to you
• 01:13 especially if you watched the previous lesson where we described in detail
• 01:17 what the presenter display looks like.
• 01:19 This is our presenter display with one minor adjustment.
• 01:22 You'll notice in the bottom left-hand corner a microphone pick-up meter
• 01:26 as well as Play and Record controls.
• 01:29 Before we begin recording, it's a good idea to test the audio feedback.
• 01:33 In this case, we can see the audio meter moving, so
• 01:36 we know that it's picking up our voice okay.
• 01:39 When you're ready to begin recording, we just hit the red Record button here.
• 01:43 This will show us a short,
• 01:44 three-second countdown timer, then the recording begins.
• 01:48 At this point in the process, there are two things being recorded, our voice and
• 01:53 the timing of our slide transitions.
• 01:56 As we advance to the next slide,
• 01:57 Keynote has kept track of how long we were on slide 1 before moving to slide 2, and
• 02:02 automatically adds that to our slide transition timing.
• 02:07 Our voice is being recorded, and will be used along side the slides when we
• 02:11 export the slide deck after we've completed the recording.
• 02:14 Even expert presenters need to clear their throat, or
• 02:17 take a short break once in a while, especially for longer presentations.
• 02:21 The Pause button here will become our best friend.
• 02:24 When we hit Pause, it not only pauses the voice recording, but
• 02:28 it also pauses the timing.
• 02:30 When we press Pause again, it resumes both.
• 02:33 This is great for taking a phone call, grabbing a drink, or
• 02:37 talking to a colleague in the middle of a recording session.
• 02:40 To finish recording prematurely,
• 02:43 all we need to do is hit the Record button to end the recording.
• 02:46 This will also mark the rest of the slide deck as not be included in
• 02:50 the final product.
• 02:52 For example, if our slide deck is 30 slides long, but
• 02:55 we've prematurely ended our recording after the 15th slide, the second half of
• 03:00 the slide deck will not be included when we export it to a video file.
• 03:05 Just something to keep in mind.
• 03:07 If we continue through the rest of the slides until the last slide, then press
• 03:11 the X button in the top right-hand corner to complete our recording.
• 03:15 The recording will be complete.
• 03:18 Now that we have recorded our slide show, what do we do with it?
• 03:21 Before we export the recording to a video file, which we will walk through in just
• 03:25 a minute, we may want to preview the file first.
• 03:28 We can do that by going to Play > Play Recorded Slideshow.
• 03:33 As long as everything looks and
• 03:35 sounds great it's now time to export our recording to a video file.
• 03:39 To do this we will go to File > Export To > QuickTime.
• 03:45 Because our recording is part of the file itself the default option is to export
• 03:50 the file to a video file using the slideshow recording.
• 03:53 Alternatively, we can choose to export using fixed timing options, but
• 03:58 this will ignore our slideshow recording both voice and transition timings.
• 04:03 We can also change the resolution of the final video here.
• 04:07 We can either export as a 720p video, or a 1080p video, or even a custom resolution.
• 04:14 The custom resolution setting is fairly atypical, but if you have a specific
• 04:18 resolution need, this will help you to satisfy that requirement.
• 04:23 When we click Next, we are given the option of choosing a name and
• 04:26 a location for our new video file.
• 04:29 Once we have named the file, we can begin the export process by clicking Export.
• 04:35 After the slideshow has been exported, it's time to preview the file.
• 04:38 Here's the sample file that I created earlier that we can preview.
• 04:44 Good afternoon and welcome to our executive meeting.
• 04:47 This is where we'll discuss our year-end review.
• 04:49 As you can see we have had a phenomenal year in sales and
• 04:52 it's also worth mentioning our impeccable safety record.
• 04:56 Well done.
• 04:58 Now that we have created and tested the file, we can email it, post it to a file
• 05:02 server, upload it to Dropbox, add it to a web page, sync it to our iPhone or
• 05:07 iPad to play on the go, or even embed that video into another Keynote slide deck.
• 05:13 It's really up to you and the possibilities are limitless, so
• 05:17 let's see what you can do with slideshow recordings.

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