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We’ll learn how to create a self-playing slide deck including custom slide transition times and our own spoken voice to accompany the slides.
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Topic
We’ll learn how to create a self-playing slide deck including custom slide transition times and our own spoken voice to accompany the slides.
When to use
Creating a custom video which includes slide and our own voice used to require specialized equipment, technicians and cost a lot of money. This lesson will walk you through how to create your own video using Keynote, much easier and much quicker than you would think.
Instructions
Slideshow recording usually generates a “Wow!” response from Keynote users learning this feature for the first time.
To being a recording session:
- open the Keynote file
- go to Play > Record Slideshow…
The interface at this point will look like a presenter display, with one difference… the inclusion of an audio pickup meter.
When you’re ready to begin recording, press the red record button.
Two things will be recorded when we record:
- our voice
- slide transition timings
To pause the recording, we simply hit the pause button. This will pause audio recording and slide transition timings.
When we’re done recording, we click the “X” button again to stop recording.
To preview our slideshow recording, we go to Play > Play Recorded Slideshow.
When you’re ready to export as a video, we go to File > Export To… > QuickTime.
The exported video file will include our recorded voice as well as our slide transition timings.
Login to download- 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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