Comments on: MacVoices interviews Brian Peat

By: Brian Peat

Brian Peat — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 19:49:16 +0000

The 72 thing wasn’t themes, it was frames/borders. Look back through the posts on this site and you’ll find that info. You ask too many questions that require too much detail to answer here. You might want to e-mail me instead (Brian @ Keynoteuser.com)

By: SteveHF

SteveHF — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 19:05:41 +0000

You mentioned two ways to get multiple themes, by changing the plst or by downloading a file which has 72 themes. I could not find these on your web site.

BTW I have been encouraging people to stop thinking of Keynote as a “presentation” program and start thinking of it as a Story Telling program. What is cool is the ability to have multiple “layers” of videos and now multiple photos with Smart Builds on the same “slide”.

I have even done PIP vidoe, smaller in foreground and full size in background. The only thing I can’t figure out how to do is a “green screened” foreground video with a transparent, so the background shows through. I tried bringing one I created in Final Cut Express into Keynote, but I get just a black background. Do you have any suggestions? I tried to do it the other way around, exporting the Keynote to Final Cut, but I lost the quality in multiple compressing (KN > QuickTime > Final Cut > QuickTime > iMovie ’08 > publish on Web Gallery). You mentioned briefly exporting at full quality to Final Cut, in order to work with audio, but I was not familiar with the “animation” codex your mentioned. Can you give me further information? Thanks. Steve Fyffe

By: Wollie Wolcott

Wollie Wolcott — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 22:33:07 +0000

Wonderful interview! I just subscibed to MacVoices and your program was the only one I downloaded. I hope that you’ll do more. Thanks for uncovering the hidden picture frames too. Can’t wait to download the files. Since I’m one of the “read the manual first” guys it was refreshing to hear some of your insights and just go and explore.