Hi Ronni, I actually didn't know how to do this myself so your
instructions will be very useful. Thankyou. Susan
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Susan Hastings
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On 17/01/2010, at 8:11 AM, Ronda Brown <ro...@mac.com> wrote:
On 17/01/2010, at 7:16 AM, Laura Webb wrote:
Good morning all
As a newbie user of Keynote I've managed to sort out how to create
a basic presentation. I've made good use of the on line tutorials.
A good project for a hot day!!
With a very new superdrive I wanted to put burning a DVD to the
test, something I've not been able to do before, because my MacBook
previously only had a combo drive. Some of you will remember all my
recent problems with the optical drive when upgrading to SL I did
the burn of my keynote presentation through Finder and had no
problems with that.
I had expected the DVD would play on the DVD player attached to my
TV so I could view the slides in a larger format. It doesn't and
just comes up as "unknown disc". Nor can I play it in the normal
way through my MacBook. I can view the new DVD of my Keynote
presentation through Front Row (and like what I see) so I know all
the slides are there as they should be and that the burn was
successful.
Could someone please explain what I am doing wrong? Why can't I
view my Keynote DVD in the same way as any other DVD?
Hi Laura,
To play a DVD on a TV you first need to "Create" a DVD. A DVD
requires a Menu and conversion to mpeg format.
In Keynote 09 you can go to Share - Send To - iDVD
1.In Keynote you can go to "Share - Send To - iDVD"
2.Specify the size of the video you want to create:
Standard 4:3 or Widescreen 16:9
3. Chose a Playback Uses Method:
a] Manual Advance: Gives viewers total control over the slideshow as
they click to advance slides
b] Recorded Timing : Uses timings that you have recorded for a
slideshow using the command File > record Slideshow
c] Fixed Timing: Runs the slideshow with no user interaction. You
must set slide duration & build options. If slides contain automatic
build timings, those will be used.
4. Click Send: Then give the file a name and target your Movies
folder.
5. Click Export
A Quicktime Movie file is written to disk. Depending on the number
of slides, it can take a few minutes to create the DVD Video file.
Before the export finishes, iDVD will launch automatically.
Whichever theme you were using the last time you had iDVD open will
be active, and you might hear the theme's soundtrack playing. You
can click the start or stop motion button in the DVD main menu to
stop the animation and sound.
6. When the export finishes, click the Play button to test the DVD
project.
a] Click Play Movie to watch the entire movie
b] Click Scene Selection to see an index of the presentation
Now choose a theme for the main menu of the DVD, one that matches
the look of your slideshow
1. Click the Themes button to access all available themes
2. Choose the Theme from the pop-up menu
3. Then click OK to apply the theme family to all menus
Now you need to populate the DVD menu to complete its design
1. Click the Edit Drop Zones button to access all the drop zones for
the project
Drop zones are places in the menu where you can add (or drop) your
own content.
2. Click the Preview button to preview your DVD
Watch the project all the way through to ensure smooth playback.
When finished with the preview, click the Exit button on the
remote to stop previewing the DVD
3. If you are happy with your result you can now click the Burn
Button to create the DVD
OR, Like I do, Go to File > "Save As Disc Image", then you can check
the DVD in DVD Player before you actually burn it to a DVD-R disc.
Note: Always burn a DVD at slow speed. I burn all my DVD's at 2X
(perhaps 4X on a Verbatim Up to16X DVD-R)
The slower the speed the better compatibility with DVD Players.
Cheers,
Ronni
17" MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo
2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB
OS X 10.6.2 Snow Leopard
Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance)
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