Comments on: New stuff in Keynote version S

By: Ken Drake

Ken Drake — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 13:44:15 +0000

Yeah, no one wants to be told that they need a Mac… until they hear that their direct competition is pitching presentations using a mac

By: Allan White

Allan White — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 01:26:01 +0000

On a Keynote-to-Motion pathway – that would indeed be cool and practical. I see the value in that.

On Keynote for Windows – unlikely, due to Keynote’s reliance on Mac APIs like Core Image. Interesting though, I’d love to have that. Right now I have to recommend to cutting-edge presenters that they buy, borrow, or rent a Mac for their presentations, which (you can imagine) doesn’t go over well.

If there was a way to translate Keynote’s animations to the Windows Presentation Framework (does the same thing), that might be the key (har). It’s technically possible, but probably not trivial. I like the idea of a Windows player.

By: Ken Drake

Ken Drake — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:13:50 +0000

I think it’s be a great idea to have at least a Keynote Player on Windows. Since the files are just .xml and all of your media, it COULD work. But having the whole app would likely be more support dollars than Apple can spare to spend (for a niche market).

The one thing in the way of this, of course, is the fact that the underlying XML has not been published. If they ever lock it down, then anyone with an interest could create an open source Keynote Playback tool so that you could even view the presentations on Linux.

By: Basil Ganglia

Basil Ganglia — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:02:32 +0000

I love Keynote and use it whenever I can, but Apple needs to release a PC version, as they did for iTunes. Like most scientists I have to give a lot of presentations at conferences or other large meetings away from my home office and lab. Such meetings almost never have Macs available, and certainly not Macs equipped with Keynote and, even if bring you own computer, which is a LOT less convenient than just carrying a flash drive with a Powerpoint presentation, they often don’t want you to take the extra time needed to hook up your Mac to the conference room projectors. Unfortunately Keynote translations to Powerpoint are very imperfect at best for complex presentations and take many hours of fine tuning to look good. Most of my colleagues use Macs and love Keynote but just cannot put up with the hassles of it’s being a local program that can’t play in the 93%-dominant PC world. This is the only program in iLife or iWork other than iTunes that I have always thought needed to be released to the PC universe. Feel even more strongly with every passing day.

By: Ken Drake

Ken Drake — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 14:35:39 +0000

Are Motion files some form of .qtz? I haven’t used it and was wondering how QuickTime reads the files.

By: Brian Peat

Brian Peat — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 03:51:10 +0000

What I’d like to see is Quicktime be able to read Keynote files the way it can read Motion files now. We sort of have this with the ability to preview in the FInder, but you can’t simply open a Keynote file in the QT player and have it play like you can with Motion files.

By: AlRobi

AlRobi — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:14:24 +0000

to Allan W. , you are absolutely right, but i believe, the way you think, Apple better throw out Live Type because we can do it in Motion, Hum.. , say your editing in FCP and you have to make a special 3d transition, there great ones in Keynote and so simple to do, so why not from FCP -send to Keynote- option and for correction -open in Editor-, just think about , say 10 lines moving text with bullets to do it in Motion or FCP what a time consumming for nothing and so easy in Keynote
AlRobi
PS Adobe connect everything

By: Ken Drake

Ken Drake — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:52:46 +0000

I think it’d be an interesting kind of enabling technology if any app could properly read and write the iWork/iWeb XML. For example, while Motion can handle anything Keynote can, what if a Keynote user could produce a cinematically animated presentation (which they’d have no hope of completing using Motion due to skill required) then present that to their Motion team for final rendering or use in HD disc creation? Then you’d have a very high quality master that could be copied and pasted into DVD Studio Pro or even Final Cut.

I don’t think there is currently a demand, but Apple has this way of creating demand for something where no demand existed before.

By: Allan W.

Allan W. — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 18:21:09 +0000

I’d heard there would be a “Keynote API” with Leopard, but this was either a rumor or never materialized. While the UI and features are fine, I’d like to see a core rewrite in order to fully make use of Core Video and Core Animation. Right now, video performance is still lacking.

@ AlRobi: I don’t see a lot of Pro Apps integration coming. I’m an FCP editor (and Keynote user), and there’s just no market demand for advanced Keynote integration. Difficult to do, and there’s Motion for animation.

By: Ken Drake

Ken Drake — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:32:09 +0000

I’d love to see any form of formal integration of Keynote with the other apps. As it is, sometimes it appears to be a half version in the future or a half version behind other apps, just slightly out of synch

By: AlRobi

AlRobi — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:15:54 +0000

I believe the next generation of Keynote will be a full complementary app to be able to communicate with Final cut studio, like the other pro app, EX: Live Type in Final cut pro you have the option- send to- or- open in Editor-, that will be really cool, that will save a compression process, when you want to export a Keynote work to Quick Time
at the end that will be a must for HD format size
AlRobi