Mar 31 2007
Crazy Talk and Keynote
Hmm. I am wanting to embed a swf file … I have had fun experimenting with CrazyTalk this evening. I now have three talking philosophers. However, I want to include them in a Keynote presentation, and therein lies the problem (or two). The CrazyTalk video seems to be far too big (it’s in GB rather than MB …) to move easily from computer to computer attached to internet, and I feel that downloading something this big could prove problematic. Secondly, I am trying to add a GarageBand audio that I’ve recorded, and even though I am following the instructions (ie drag the file into the slide that you want it to play over), nothing is happening. I don’t think the slide is recognising the file, even though I have saved it as an iLife project, and it has a little guitar logo. Can anybody help?! Thanks.
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Hello,
Regarding the CrazyTalk file size issue, when you export your video make sure you have selected a proper ‘codec’ to compress the video if you wish to go direct to the web, flash, imovie etc… Using ‘Full Frames Uncompressed’ is a good option if you want to retain teh 100% quality, but if you are concerned about portability of your file then try experimenting with ‘DV’ or WMV or Cinepack by Radius codec. You can export your CrazyTalk movies in smaller file sizes by choosing various other codecs or file type output.
If you have saved your sound as a Garageband project then it wont go into iMovie. You should share it to iTunes and then use the audio element of iMovie to drage over the file. This should work. Please let me know if this is successful….
The GarageBand audio worked fine with iMovie, but it wouldn’t work with Keynote, which is what I was trying to do before I decided to move to iMovie … I was following all the instructions in the help section! I will look at moving it to iTunes though.
Animize, thanks for your advice, too. It sounds quite complex, but I will go through it slowly and hopefully will have more luck!