Quicktime bug
I have been creating Podcasts using Keynote and iMovie. This has been working fine, and I have created podcasts that cover a basic calculus course completely.
Yesterday I needed to create another podcast. I started my Keynote, produced and recorded the presentation, and exported it to Quicktime. But no sound. The recording did not play anymore when the presentation was exported to Quicktime.
I found out that the culprit was the new version (4.5) of Quicktime. See
http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20080617143056579. Downgrading Quicktime 7.5 to Quicktime 7.4 helped, and I got my sound back to my presentations. Observe that you need to downgrade Quicktime, not the Quicktime Player. So I finally got to sleep at 3 am this morning.
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QuickTime bug fixed
Now that I finally understood how to manage with with the sound in recorded Keynote presentations, Apple has fixed the QuickTime bug. Exporting to QuickTime works today (August 13, 2008), and exported movies can be opened in iMovie.
Keynote export to Quicktime
I just read it was fixed, but I am still having the same problem - no sound. Today is 8-14-08 and I am using the latest version of Quicktime (7.5). I just recorded a lecture this morning and exported with no sound.
Any help? I am on the phone waiting on Apple. It is frustrating that they haven't fixed this.
How to Export the Sound Track
If one cannot downgrade QuickTime, then different method is needed.
To produce a QuickTime movie with the narrations from a recorded Keynote presentation perform the following steps.
1. First export a Keynote presentation to a movie.
2. Open the exported movie by QuickTime Pro and export it to a QuickTime movie (select export movie to a QuickTime movie).
These steps yield a movie that can be opened by iMovie. This movie, however, does not have narrations anymore.
3. To export also the narration, right-click the Keynote file, and select to view the package content. Then open the narration track with iTunes.
4. Add the narration from iTunes to the exported movie in iMovie.
This results to a QuickTime movie playable on iPods, iPhones and other computers. I wish that Apple would soon correct the apparent bug so that Keynote would export directly to a playable movie.
How To Downgrade Quicktime
The link given in the blog posting is not anymore publicly available. Hence more info is needed. In my case (Leopard 10.5.4) downgrading to QuickTime 7.4.5 was a sufficient fix.
Use Pacisifit to downgrade, see
http://www.digitalrebellion.com/blog/posts/using_pacifist_to_downgrade_q.... If you want to use iMovie in the same machine, you need to downgrade also iMovie after having downgraded QuickTime.
No sound on quicktime movies exported from Keynote
I am running OSX 10.5.4 with Quicktime 7.5 and Keynote 4.0.3 and found that when I exported recorded slideshows to Quicktime they did not include the recorded sound.
Without downgrading any of the applications, I turned off 'Exit presentation after last slide' under 'slideshow' in the Keynote preferences, and now everything works OK.
Don't even ask why this apparently unrelated option has this effect, but anyone out there with the same problem might want to give it a try.
Cheers,
John.