Are you on a Mac?
Are you looking for a straightforward, inexpensive way
to create learning videos for your online
course or flipped classroom?
Then say hello to Apple Keynote. Keynote is
presentation authoring software that
comes bundled for free with new Mac
computers. But there are a couple of
features under the hood of Keynote that
make it a capable video creation tool.
Here we are in Keynote. This is version
7.0.5. So, this is the main
editing interface of Keynote, where you
would build your slides with images and
text and shapes.
I've put together a few slides, here, to
use as content for our demo. So, say I want
to take this amazing presentation I put
together and share it with my audience
or my learners as a video. Well, we can
do that from right within Keynote.
First, we go up to the top menu and select 'Play.'
Now, the item we want in this menu is
'Record Slideshow.' We hit that, and we're taken
to Keynotes slideshow recording
interface. This is where the video
creation magic happens,
well part of it, at least. Let me give you
a quick rundown of the interface. This
big window on the left shows the current
slide in the presentation. The smaller
window to the right shows the next slide up.
It also indicates how many builds, or
animations are on that particular slide.
This button on the left labeled 'Show Navigator'
If we click that it allows you to
jump back and forth between the slides
in your presentation on the fly if need be.
We'll go back to our first one and we'll just
close this. Now, down at the bottom you
can see here this level indicator.
This is the microphone level indicator.
That's right, Keynote allows you to record
narration with your slideshow.
Now, you'll notice
there's no controls to set the
microphone level. To adjust your
microphone level you need to go to your
Mac's system preferences
I'll quickly show you how to do that.
First, we'll close out the recording
interface by clicking this 'X.' And then
we'll go over to the 'apple' item on the
top menu. Select that and then we'll
select 'System Preferences.' We'll go over
to 'Sound' and then to the 'Input' tab. This
shows your microphones that are
connected to your computer. So, you
connect, or rather, select the microphone
you're using and you can select, or
adjust, rather, the volume down here. So,
let's close out of the 'System
Preferences' and head back to our
recording interface on Keynote by
hitting 'Play' and 'Record Slideshow' again.
Now, down here, beside the 'Microphone
Level Indicator' we have some controls. We
have a 'Rewind' button, a 'Play' button and
the 'Record Button' the big red button. You
hit the record button to start recording
your slideshow. Let me show you real quick.
I'll just record a little bit of my demo
presentation.
So, I'll hit this 'Record' button.
I'll get this big countdown, and then I
will just advance through my slides
using the 'Forward Arrow' key on my
keyboard, and I'll narrate as I go.
Do you want to take your photography to the
next level? Then you need to learn from
the pros. And in this video I'm going to
share with you five tips from
photography pros.
Let's get started. Pro tip number one,
'Think ahead.' Think about what kind of
photo you want to create and how you're
going to create it.
Great images are rarely created on the
fly. Some kind of planning goes into them.
Our next pro tip,
tip number two, 'Get down.' And I
don't mean dancing. Shoot at the eye
level of your subject to bring us into
their world, be it children, or your pets,
to really give us a sense of their
perspective. Makes for a much more
engaging image.
Okay, I'm gonna stop the presentation
here, and I'll do that by hitting 'Record'
again. Keynote has recorded and saved my
slideshow recording, including my
narration, internally within the Keynote
project file, and the recording is
represented by this blue timeline down here.
You can play back your slideshow by
hitting the 'Rewind' button then hitting
the 'Play' button. Let's do that. Let's just
play this back, rewind and play. "And I
will just advance through my slides
using the forward arrow key on my
keyboard and I'll narrate as I go. Do you
want to take your photography to the
next level? Then you need to learn from
the pros. And in this video, I'm going to
share with you five tips from
photography pros.
Let's get started." Okay, I'll just pause
that. We can see that we do in fact have
a recording, here, on the timeline. Now, you
can scrub through the timeline of your
recorded slideshow using this playhead, here.
And this will scrub through and advance,
so you get a sense of what you've
recorded. If you'd like to review your
recorded slideshow fullscreen what you
need to do is you close out of the
recording interface by hitting the 'X' here.
Then we're going to go back up to the
top menu to the 'Play' item. Click that and
select 'Play Recorded Slideshow.' So, let's
hit that and see what happens. "...and I will
just advance through my slides using the
forward arrow key on my keyboard and
I'll narrate as I go.
Do you want to take your photography to
the next level? Then you need to learn
from the pros. And in this video I'm
going to share with you five tips from
photography pros.
Let's get started." Okay, I'm just going to
hit the 'Escape' key to get out of that. So,
that was our recorded slideshow with the
narration. Now, the other option on the
'Play' menu, we'll just go back up here and
see, is 'Clear Recording.' Now, you click
this if you want to trash your recording
and start over.
Wait a second Mike, what if i get near
the end of recording a really long slide
show and I make a mistake and I want to
fix it. Does that mean I have to
re-record the entire slideshow from the
beginning?
Well, thankfully no. Keynote gives you the
ability to go back to a spot in your
recorded slideshow and re-record. Let's hop
back into the 'Recording' interface and
I'll show you what I mean.
Let's go back to the 'Recording' interface by selecting
'Record Slideshow.' Now, to re-record a
section of your presentation you would
grab the playhead and move it back and,
say, okay, maybe I wanted to change how I
presented this slide coming in. Now,
you'll notice these little tick marks on
the timeline. These little light tick
marks indicate the transition between
the individual slides. So, once you find
the point where you want to start
re-recording, what you would do is you would
hit, let's say we'll go in here, right before, here.
Hit 'Record.' Now, you'll get this big
warning:
'Are you sure you want to re-record from
the current location? The recording from
here to the end will be replaced.'
So, everything from this point in the
timeline, on, will be erased and recorded
over, just so you know.
So, if you choose 'Record' you'll get a
countdown and Keynote will start
recording
over your old stuff with the new stuff.
We'll cancel out of that. It'd be nice if
you could set an out point on the
timeline for your re-record, instead of
having to blow away the rest of your
recording just to fix a specific spot.
Well, maybe in the next version. However, what
you can do is drag the playhead to the
end of your timeline and record on from
there,
adding to your recording. So, if you need
to create a long presentation you don't
have to record the entire thing all in
one take,
or one session. You can stop, save your
file, and continue recording from where
you left off, later. But this awesome
recording you just created isn't much
use if you can't share it with your
audience or your learner's, right? We need
to take this recording and turn it into
a video file. To export your slideshow
recording as a video we need to close
out of the recording interface by hitting
the 'X' up here. Then you'll head over to
'File, Export To Quicktime' and you'll get this
export panel. And you'll want to make
sure in this 'Playback' area that
'Slideshow Recording' is selected, so that
we export the recording that you created.
Now, you'll also notice that we have some
settings to take care of. In the format
area, here, you have a choice of exporting
your slideshow as a '720p' resolution
high-definition video file, or you can also
select a '1080p' resolution HD video file,
or you can pick a custom set of settings,
depending on what your final destination
is. We're going to go back and select '720p'
because that'll work for our purposes.
After you select your export settings,
you select 'Next' and then you'll set a
location on your machine to export your
video file. In this case I think I'll
just put it to the desktop. Then hit
'Export' and your movie file is created.
I love keynote, but it's not going to
replace dedicated video-editing or
animation software. However, if you're
looking for a quick, barebones way to
create lecture-style videos on a Mac,
then Keynote may be all that you need. If
you want to create high-quality learning
videos with maximum flexibility then
you're going to need a few more tools in
your toolbox, in addition to Keynote. Now,
if you want to know the tools that I
suggest then download my
Video Learning Toolkit Resource List. You can
grab that right now by hitting the link on the screen,
or the link in the description, below.
Thanks for watching.
And I'll see you next time.