iWork Keynote and Final Cut Pro – work together???

[Ernie Santella]

You can export a Quicktime movie out of Keynote. Just import that into FCP and add sound.

Ernie Santella
Santella Productions Inc.
http://www.santellaproductions.com

[Anna Little]

Lovely, thanks for the quick response Ernie! Really helpful.

Anna Little

[Ernie Santella]

You’re welcome. Keynote is awesome, because it will also allow you to import a Power-point file and export it as a QT WITH the transitions intact! That’s what sold me on Keynote.

Ernie Santella
Santella Productions Inc.
http://www.santellaproductions.com

[Anna Little]

Very interesting! Thanks.
Anna

Anna Little

[David Bogie]

Warning: Just because the slides can be exported as QT does not mean they’ll look good as video.
My experience with moving PP to video is that almost every slide has to be rebuilt from scratch. Two reasons: The person who created the PP is an idiot and the resolution of video is fixed whereas the rez of the PP/Keynote is variable.

bogiesan

[Anna Little]

Thanks.
What’s the alternative/answer!?!
I have to get a video ready asap for an important audience!!

Anna Little

[Ernie Santella]

1st, let the person know who’s authoring the PP that they need to think TV instead of computer/projection. Here’s some guidelines:

– Larger fonts and less on each page.
– Keep everything inside a safe title area (Not too close to the edges of the frame)
– Build all slides in a 4:3 or 16:9 size.
– Use contrasting colors for type and background (No Red on a Green Background)

That’s a start. You can always take the movie you export and mortise it back a bit in FCP to be in safe Title area. That works if the fonts aren’t too small.

I agree with David. You may have to rebuild some slides if they are unreadable. Just instruct the authors to think TV frame.

Ernie Santella
Santella Productions Inc.
http://www.santellaproductions.com

[Anna Little]

Thanks for all of that info. Only problem is – it’s me designing the slides and I’m using Keynote for the first time!! I was told I’d be editing it all on FCP – but when I arrived, it was all on Keynote. My deadline is Monday so I hope to resolve any issues….but basically I should be able to export moving slides in Keynote to FCP right? I tested a couple and they looked ok….but there are 18 so who knows what can happen!!
Thanks again.

Anna Little

[Ken Jones]

Don’t use thin, horizontal lines.
I will open an existing PPT presentation and bump the lines up from 1 pixel to 5 or 6 pixels.

[Von Thomas]

I’m very new to FCP, and I come from the still side of town. I’d like to know when brining a Keynote into FCP, how do I set it up. In Easy Setup what is the “Format” and what should the “Use” be?

Also, I have the same question for RED files being imported into FCP, but I’ll direct that question to the RED thread.

Thanks

Von

Von Thomas