In this video,
I'm going to show you how to add a talking head video to your Keynote
presentation, using Keynote's Play Across Slides feature.
So in Keynote version 10.1, they added a new feature called Play Across Slides,
which allows you to play a video or a piece of audio across the slides
in your presentation.
It's kind of like being able to create an independent video or audio track
for your slideshow. So in this video,
I'm going to show you how to use that feature, Play Across Slides,
to add a talking head narration video to your Keynote presentation.
Like you'd see in a typical tutorial or.
Screencast, let's jump in.
So here we are in Keynote and this is Keynote version 10.3.8,
running on MacOS big Sur 11.0.1.
Now it's very important to note that the technique I'm going to show you only
works in Keynote version 10.1 and above because
10.1 is when they added the Play Across Slides feature.
So I have this project open and it contains six slides with graphics,
text and animation.
It's a short presentation about the three phases of video production.
Now I'll quickly play it by going up and hitting the play button on the toolbar.
So now in playback mode and all of my slide animations or builds
in this slideshow are set to trigger manually on click.
So to advance through my slideshow,
I need to press the left mouse button or hit the forward arrow key.
And you can see the different elements animate onto screen,
and I'll hit escape to get out of playback mode. Okay.
Now what I want to do is add a talking head video to my slides,
to guide the viewer through the presentation,
essentially an on-camera narration.
Now I cannot record my web cam or other camera directly in
Keynote.
What I can do is pre-record a talking head video to go with my
presentation and then add it to my slides later.
And that's what I did.
Here's the video I prerecorded for my presentation and I recorded it with
my Logitech C920 webcam in QuickTime player
using file, new movie recording.
Now you could also use your smartphone or other camera to pre-record your video.
I'll play a little bit of this prerecording.
Hey, it's Mike. And in this video,
I want to go over the three phases of video production. So.
Here's a tip: as I'm recording my on-camera narration.
I'm actually going through my slideshow in Keynote,
simulating a live presentation,
doing it this way will help me synchronize my recorded video with my slide
animations later on in the process as you'll see. All right,
let's add this video narration to my slides, and to do that.
I'm first going to add a new blank slide to the beginning of my slide deck here.
So I'll select add slide button on the top toolbar and from the
menu down here, I'll select a blank slide.
Now I'll click and drag my blank slide to the top of the slide deck if necessary.
And with my new blank slide selected,
I'll go up and select the media button on the top toolbar and
from the menu select choose.
And that will bring up the finder so that I can choose the video I want to add.
And here it is on the desktop,
I'll select it and then select the insert button will then
import my video and place it on the slide I had selected.
Okay.
So here's my video on the first slide and it's full screen and I'm going to
leave it full screen as the introduction of my presentation.
Next thing I'm going to do is with my video selected on the slide,
I'm going to make sure the format button at the top right of the interface is
selected. And then below that,
make sure the movie button is selected to bring up the settings panel for my
selected video.
And then I'm going to go down to the settings at the bottom of the panel,
and I'm going to make sure start movie on click is deselected.
my video will start playing automatically when I play the presentation,
which is what I want. Now, here's where the magic happens.
I'm going to go down here and make sure Play Across Slides
is selected. This is very important.
This allows my video to play continuously across all of my
slides, almost like a separate video track, but in order to make that happen,
I need to perform another important step.
I need to copy and paste my video to all the other
slides in my slideshow, where I want the video to play continuously.
And then I have to enable the Play Across Slides setting for each of
those copies of the the video. Let me show you.
So I'll select my video on the first slide. I'll right-
click or control-click and from the pop-up menu, select copy.
Then I'll select my second slide, right-click or control-
click and select paste. And there's my
video taking up all the space on my slide, covering the other content.
Now I don't want that. So with my video still selected,
I'm going to click and drag
the corner handles to resize my video and place it in the lower right
corner of the slide.
It's the typical arrangement you'd see in most tutorials or screencasts, then
with my video still selected,
I'm going to go over to the movie settings and make sure Play Movie Across
Slides is selected. Now you can leave the Start Movie on Click setting
checked or unchecked. It doesn't really matter.
The video is going to play continuously from the first slide either way,
because I have Play Across Slides selected. All right,
now that my video is sized and positioned where I want it to be
I'll make sure it's selected and then just right-click or control-click on it.
And from the menu select copy.
And then I'm just going to copy the video to the rest of my slides.
This will maintain the size and positioning of my video for each slide that I
add it to. Convenient.
And just like the videos on the first two slides I'll make sure Play Across
Slides is checked for each copy of the video that I
paste to the other slides.
So now that my video has been added to my slides and Play Across Slides has been
checked. I'm going to add a little bit of production value to my presentation.
Now this step is not necessary to make my presentation work,
but it's a nice touch. So I'm going to select my first slide with my video.
that's fullscreen. Now making sure nothing else is selected on the slide,
not even the video, I'm going to go over to the top-right
of the interface and select the animate button.
And from the transition menu, I'll select add an effect.
And from the list of effects, I'll select the Magic Move.
And I get a preview of what the transition is going to look like.
So my full screen video on the first slide is going to smoothly transition
to the shrinked-down version on the next slide.
I'm going to go over to the Magic Move's settings and just reduce the duration a
little just to make the move go faster. Now,
if you want to know more about how to use Keynote's Magic Move transition,
I have a tutorial on that.
I'll leave a link to that video in the description below. All right,
now that my talking head video is set up on all of my slides
let's see how this whole thing comes together using the Play Across Slides
feature.
So I'm going to go up to the top toolbar and select the play button to play back
my slideshow.
And here's my fullscreen talking head video on the first slide playing
automatically. And at the right moment,
I'll hit the forward arrow key and we'll transition to the next
slide.
But notice my talking head video continues to play across the
slides independently.
And that's what the Play Across Slides feature does.
It's like having a separate video track for your slideshow.
I'll continue stepping through my slideshow, using the forward arrow key,
using my talking head video narration as a guide.
This is when you're recording, you're recording video.
So these are the three phases of video production
pre-production production,
and post-production. All right.
I'll hit the escape key to get out of playback mode.
So I'm pretty happy with how that turned out and what helped make the timing work was
when I prerecorded my talking head video,
I stepped through my Keynote slideshow as if I was giving a live presentation.
When I'm happy with my slideshow, I can export it as a video,
but before I do that,
I need to first record my slideshow in Keynote. To record my
slideshow, I'll make sure my first slide is selected.
Then I'll go up to the top menu and select play, record slideshow.
This opens Keynote's slide show recording interface.
Now taking a quick look at this interface.
The big window on the left shows the current slide and the smaller window
on the right shows, the next slide animation transition,
or build in the build order. So you can see what's coming next. Now,
before I start recording, I'm just going to go down to the controls down here,
and I'm going to click the microphone icon to mute my microphone.
This is the built-in voice over tool in the interface.
Now I don't need to record a voiceover using this recording interface because
I already have my talking head video narration. All right,
let's record. To start recording
I can go down to the bottom of the interface and select the record button
and I get this countdown and then I'm recording. In this video
I want to go over...
And then my talking head video narration starts automatically because that's how
I had it set.
And then I'm just going to step through my slides by hitting the forward arrow
key at the right moment,
just like I did when I rehearsed things earlier using my talking head video
narration as a guide.
So all I have to do is worry about hitting the forward arrow key
at the right time.
So this is all part of preproduction. The planning phase of video production.
The next phase of video production is
production.
So these are the three phases of video production,
pre-production, production, and post-production.
When I'm finished I can stop recording by hitting the stop button down here.
Now at the bottom of the interface, you'll notice a timeline of your recording.
The blue bar here represents your recording. Now, if you look carefully,
you can see faint gray tick marks.
These represent the boundaries between the slides in your slideshow.
Now you can play back your recorded slideshow by clicking
and dragging the playhead back to the beginning of the timeline,
or you can just click the rewind button here,
then press the play button to play back.
Hey, it's Mike. And in this video, I want to go over the three...
And there is the recorded slideshow with the slide animations correctly
timed to my talking head video narration.
Your researching your topic, you're writing.
Just a quick note about editing in this recording interface.
If you mess up recording a slide,
you can go back and rerecord that slide by clicking and dragging the
play head to just before the boundary tick mark
At the beginning of the slide you want to rerecord,
then you hit the record button again to rerecord.
Now you'll get this warning.
You're about to record over your current recording from the slide selected
onward. That's something to keep in mind.
Whichever slide you start rerecording from,
from that point on in the recording,
everything will be erased and recorded over,
which means you can't just rerecord one or two slides in the middle of your
slideshow recording. My advice, if you make a mistake while recording,
it's best to stop recording immediately,
then start your rerecord at the beginning of the slide with the mistake and
continue on. All right, now that my slideshow is recorded.
I can export it as a video and to do that
I'll first get out of the Keynote's recording interface by clicking on this X
button, in the top right corner.
And then I'm going to go to the top menu in Keynote and select
file, export to, movie.
And the movie export dialogue pops up. So for playback,
I'll select the drop down menu and select slideshow recording because I want to
export the recording I just made. Then under the resolution menu,
I'll select the 1080p preset. This exports,
your slideshow as a high definition,
1920 by 1080p video using the H.264
codec, which is a very common export format.
You can also enter a custom resolution setting by selecting Custom and then
entering your settings into these fields.
Now just make sure the resolution you enter into these fields matches the
resolution and aspect ratio, at least of your slides,
you can select a custom frame rate for your exported video,
30 FPS or frames per second is a very common frame rate
and under compression type,
you have a list of different compression settings from H.264,
which is pretty standard to the various Apple ProRes 422,
compression types, which give you varying levels of quality,
but large files all sizes. You'd use these presets.
If you were taking your exported video out of keynote into another
editing application,
like say Final Cut Pro or Premier Pro to do some more editing or
post-production, and then you have Apple ProRes 4444,
which you would use to export Keynote videos or animations that contain
transparency, or what's called an Alpha Channel.
Now I have a tutorial that shows you how to export animations with
transparency or Alpha Channels out of Keynote.
I'll leave a link to that tutorial in the description below. Just keep in mind
Apple ProRes 4444 creates very,
very large file sizes. So for this demo,
I'll leave my export set to the 1080p preset.
Then I'll go down here and select next,
and I get the familiar save dialogue. I'll give my exported video a name,
select a location to save it to on my Mac and then hit export.
And my recorded Keynote slideshow with my talking head video narration is
exported as a high definition video that I can share.
Here's a quick look at the final exported video of my slideshow.
In this video, I want to go over the three phases of video production.
So the first phase of video production is pre-production.
So this is when you're doing your planning.
So the Play Across Slides feature in Keynote gives you a controlled
way to add video content and then synchronize it with your Keynote
presentation. Now,
if you're looking for other ways to create great quality video using Apple
Keynote, have a look at these other videos on my channel. Thanks for watching.
And I'll see you next time.