Keynote and movies (and, incidentally, ModBooks)
William Clark
Axiotron ModBook for classroom teaching. It has iWorks '09 running under
10.5.8.
I have been converting PowerPoint presentation over to Keynote on this
machine, but I have hit the following snag. Keynote simply will not open
a QT movie in presentation mode. I have tries selecting "Allow Expose .
. ." etc., but to no avail. Nothing, absolutely nothing, will make this
movie run in Keynote, although it does so just fine in PowerPoint 2008.
How can Apple still be peddling software this buggy in 2009? Does anyone
have an answer to this (in my view very major) problem? I would be
grateful.
A word on the ModBook. It is a nice piece of hardware, but
disappointingly useless in the classroom. What we needed it to do more
than anything was allow us to use Keynote/PowerPoint presentations, and
annotate them with a pen while doing so (as you can with a PC tablet,
for example). It seems that there are no drivers for software like
SmartBoard, that uses the Wacom Grafire tablet with an ordinary
PowerBook, and without them, all the pen functions are overridden by
PowerPoint or Keynote, so the only option left is PowerPoint's horrible
pen pointer. This is a major inconvenience if you need to change slides,
since you have to come out of pen mode to do so. Does anyone have a
solution for this issue?
Really for what we had in mind, this is less use than adding a Grafire
tablet to a MacBook. That is hardly progress, and we will probably ship
the other two ModBooks back for a refund.
Tom Stiller
<clark-93212D....@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>,
William Clark <cl...@nospam.matsceng.ohio-state.edu> wrote:
> I have been converting PowerPoint presentation over to Keynote on this
> machine, but I have hit the following snag. Keynote simply will not open
> a QT movie in presentation mode. I have tries selecting "Allow Expose .
> . ." etc., but to no avail. Nothing, absolutely nothing, will make this
> movie run in Keynote, although it does so just fine in PowerPoint 2008.
> How can Apple still be peddling software this buggy in 2009? Does anyone
> have an answer to this (in my view very major) problem? I would be
> grateful.
I wasn't aware that the ModBook was an Apple product and as far as I
know, Apple only "peddles" software for Apple branded computers.
--
Tom Stiller
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TaliesinSoft
<clark-93212D....@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>):
> I have been converting PowerPoint presentation over to Keynote on this
> machine, but I have hit the following snag. Keynote simply will not open a
> QT movie in presentation mode. I have tries selecting "Allow Expose . . ."
> etc., but to no avail. Nothing, absolutely nothing, will make this movie
> run in Keynote, although it does so just fine in PowerPoint 2008. How can
> Apple still be peddling software this buggy in 2009? Does anyone have an
> answer to this (in my view very major) problem? I would be grateful.
I frequently create Keynote presentations with embedded Quicktime movies and
haven't experienced any problems doing so. I drag the Quicktime movie onto a
slide, size it, and then add the transitions. I'm at a loss as to what you
might be doing that would cause the movie not to play.
--
James Leo Ryan --- Austin, Texas --- talies...@me.com
William Clark
Tom Stiller <tom_s...@yahoo.com> wrote:
It's an Apple MacBook with a screen modified as a tablet. Everything
inside it is pure Apple, and it comes with iWork '09. You can even give
your old ModBook to Axiotron, and they will do the conversion for you.
I cannot understand how Apple let this market go.
William Clark
TaliesinSoft <talies...@me.com> wrote:
That's what I thought it would do, but when you click on it to play it,
it just transitions to the next slide. For now, I am back to PowerPoint.
Oh, the shame!
nospam
<wclark2-660971...@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>,
William Clark <wcl...@colnospamumbus.rr.com> wrote:
> > > I have been converting PowerPoint presentation over to Keynote on this
> > > machine, but I have hit the following snag. Keynote simply will not open
> > > a QT movie in presentation mode. I have tries selecting "Allow Expose .
> > > . ." etc., but to no avail. Nothing, absolutely nothing, will make this
> > > movie run in Keynote, although it does so just fine in PowerPoint 2008.
> >
> > > How can Apple still be peddling software this buggy in 2009? Does anyone
> > > have an answer to this (in my view very major) problem? I would be
> > > grateful.
> >
> > I wasn't aware that the ModBook was an Apple product and as far as I
> > know, Apple only "peddles" software for Apple branded computers.
>
> It's an Apple MacBook with a screen modified as a tablet. Everything
> inside it is pure Apple, and it comes with iWork '09. You can even give
> your old ModBook to Axiotron, and they will do the conversion for you.
which means it's an apple product with a third party modification. ask
axiotron why their modification is not compatible with apple software.
> I cannot understand how Apple let this market go.
maybe it's not as lucrative as you think it is. how many modbooks
actually are sold?
TaliesinSoft
<wclark2-DB4874...@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>):
[in response to my having stated]
>> I frequently create Keynote presentations with embedded Quicktime movies
>> and haven't experienced any problems doing so. I drag the Quicktime movie
>> onto a slide, size it, and then add the transitions. I'm at a loss as to
>> what you might be doing that would cause the movie not to play.
>
> That's what I thought it would do, but when you click on it to play it, it
> just transitions to the next slide. For now, I am back to PowerPoint. Oh,
> the shame!
Methinks you haven't set the transitions correctly. You can have the click
still take you to the next slide and have the movie start playing immediately
when the containing slide is loaded.
William Clark
nospam <nos...@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> In article
> <wclark2-660971...@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>,
> William Clark <wcl...@colnospamumbus.rr.com> wrote:
>
> > > > I have been converting PowerPoint presentation over to Keynote on this
> > > > machine, but I have hit the following snag. Keynote simply will not
> > > > open
> > > > a QT movie in presentation mode. I have tries selecting "Allow Expose .
> > > > . ." etc., but to no avail. Nothing, absolutely nothing, will make this
> > > > movie run in Keynote, although it does so just fine in PowerPoint 2008.
> > >
> > > > How can Apple still be peddling software this buggy in 2009? Does
> > > > anyone
> > > > have an answer to this (in my view very major) problem? I would be
> > > > grateful.
> > >
> > > I wasn't aware that the ModBook was an Apple product and as far as I
> > > know, Apple only "peddles" software for Apple branded computers.
> >
> > It's an Apple MacBook with a screen modified as a tablet. Everything
> > inside it is pure Apple, and it comes with iWork '09. You can even give
> > your old ModBook to Axiotron, and they will do the conversion for you.
>
> which means it's an apple product with a third party modification. ask
> axiotron why their modification is not compatible with apple software.
Well it's a Wacom tablet essentially, so no different really from using
the Grafire with a regular PowerBook. There is absolutely no reason for
Keynote not to work on in in EXACTLY the same way that it does on the
PowerBook.
>
> > I cannot understand how Apple let this market go.
>
> maybe it's not as lucrative as you think it is. how many modbooks
> actually are sold?
Well, not many, if they don't add the desired facility over any Mac Book.
William Clark
<wclark2-DB4874...@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>,
William Clark <wcl...@colnospamumbus.rr.com> wrote:
I think the mystery is solved. The movie would not play while I was in
"Rehearse slideshow" mode, but when I actually went to "Play slideshow",
it worked.
What is the use of "Rehearse slideshow" if it does this?