| This tutorial will help you remove a full size QuickTime movie from your .Key file and replace it with an alias to save space. Just remember that if you give the .Key file to someone who does NOT have that clip available, it won't play correctly.
Step 1.
Make sure your .Key file is NOT open. MAKE A COPY OF IT in case you break it! Find the .key icon and Right Click, or Control Click on it. This brings up the Contextual menu. Choose "Show Package Contents" from the menu.
Step 2.
Once you select this, the Package will open and you will see the contents, including your QuickTime movie, and POSSIBLY another QuickTime movie that is similar in name. I have seen Keynote duplicate the movie and add a 1 to the name. In my second test, this didn't happen, only the one file was in the Package. SO, I will try to do TWO version at the same time here, incase you experience the double movie problem.
Step 3
This is going to get confusing, but I will try to make things clear.
- If you DO NOT have a copy of the movie somewhere elsse on your hard drive, drag the movie out of the wiindow onto your dektop right now.
- If you see TWO movies in the folder, such as mymovie1.mov would be if the folder above had two, leave the second movie there, but make sure you read step 1 above.
- If you already had the movie file somewhere else on your hard drive, you can THROW AWAY the copy of it that is in the Package. In my example I would throw away the mymovie.mov file in the folder you see.
- Make an alias of the real movie clip. This will either be the one you dragged to your desktop in step 1, or the one you already knew of in step 3.
- If you still have a movie IN the package window select the name of the movie (as if you were going to change it) and COPY the name of the movie, and then throw the movie away. Now select the Alias you made in step 4, make sure you are set to edit the name, and paste the new name in so that it has the name of the clip you just threw away.
- COPY the alias using the regular COPY command in the Finder.
- Click on the Package window (like the one in my image above) and PASTE using the regular Finder Paste command. This SHOULD place the alias inside the package. You do this because the Finder will not let you drag something into an open Package.
- Close the Package window
- Throw away the old alias (on your desktop or near the original movie)
- Make SURE you DO NOT throw away your original movie as the alias in the Package points to it.
Step 4.
Launch your .Key file and test it.
Other ideas:
There is a discussion going on at the Apple Keynote Discussion board on using a reference movie to a movie on the internet instead of an alias. If it works, you could potentially play Keynote files that trigger a movie that is actually up on the web. Of course you have to make sure you have internet access, but it could be a cool thiing to play around with.
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