If you're using a Mac and you create video tutorials or video lectures or tabletop
demonstration videos, then you’re gonna want to watch this video. Because if you’re on a Mac,
you have access to Apple Keynote the free presentation software that comes bundled
with every Mac. And the great thing about Keynote? It now has a feature called Live
Video and it is a game-changer. With Keynote’s Live Video feature, you can take video from
your built-in FaceTime camera, an external USB webcam, a DSLR camera, your iPhone or iPad display
and add it directly into to your Keynote presentation. You can now record video directly
in Keynote! Let me show you. So, here we are in Keynote. This is Keynote version 11.2. You'll need
Keynote 11.2 or above to use Keynote’s Live Video feature. So I have this demo project open with
four slides. And what I’m going to do is create a different style of video for each of these four
slides so you can see what you can do with Live Video, here, in Keynote. So, for this first slide,
I’m going to add a full-screen, talking-head video, that you’d typically use as an
introduction to a presentation, a lecture, or tutorial. So with the blank slide selected,
go up to the top Toolbar and select the Media button. And from the dropdown menu select
Live Video. And you get this rectangular shape with the icon of a person in the centre of it.
This shape represents a Live Video object. With the Live Video object selected on the slide,
if you look to the right, in the Inspector, you can see we have a Live Video section with a few
settings.The first setting is Source. This is where you add and edit video sources you bring
into Keynote. Typically, you'll have a default camera source already there. That's usually
the built-in FaceTime camera on your Mac. The built-in FaceTime camera works fine, but the
beauty of the Live Video feature in Keynote is that you can use external video sources.
So, for the full-screen, intro video on this first slide, I’m going to use a mirrorless DSLR camera
via a CamLink 4K USB capture card, which is connected to my Mac. You could also use an
external USB webcam, as you’ll see later. To add the mirrorless camera as a video source,
select the little downward-facing arrow on the Default Camera source box.
And you get this pop-out menu. You can see the Default Camera in the list with a checkmark,
meaning it's the video source being used at the moment. To add a new video source, select
the Plus button at the top-right. And you get this dialogue in the middle of the screen where
you can add a new Live Video Source. You can name your new Live Video source in this field up here.
I’ll name the new video source "Mirrorless Cam." Next, select the menu at the bottom.
And up pops a list of the available video sources connected to your Mac. And there is
the CamLink 4K, which is the mirrorless camera. I’ll select it. And a preview of the mirrorless
camera pops up in the middle of the Live Video dialogue. Select the add button. And the video
feed from the mirrorless camera appears inside the Live Video object on the slide. You can also
see the mirrorless camera listed under Source in the Live Video Inspector panel over here.
With this Live Video source set up, you can do a few different things. Back over in the Live Video
Inspector, select the little downward-pointing arrow and you get the Live Video Sources panel.
Now if you wanted to switch to a different video source you have connected, like another camera,
you could do that by just clicking on the source in this panel. Select this little right-facing
arrow on the video source, and you have the choice to delete this video source, or you can edit it.
If you select edit, it brings up a dialogue where you can edit the name of the video source,
or replace the video source with a different video source. Alright, what else can we do
with this Live Video object? Well, you can click and drag it around the slide, just like any other
object in Keynote. You can scale the object by clicking and dragging on these corner handles.
If you click and drag on this little, green handle in the top-left corner of the Live Video object,
you can adjust its corner radius, which rounds the corners of the video window. You can also
adjust the Corner Radius using this dialogue on the Inspector panel over here. The Scale
control up here adjusts the scale of the video source inside the Live Video window. You'll want
to be careful with this one. It's a digital zoom. Too much zoom degrades the quality of the video.
This Mask setting down here is very cool. Select this menu and you get a few presets to choose
from. These preset masks change the shape and aspect ratio of the Live Video object. Select
Custom and you can manually crop the window and zoom the video source inside the Live
Video object to taste. When you’re done just hit the Done button. Lot's of flexibility. The final
setting to show you is this little camera icon on the Live Video object. Selecting that toggles
the video feed off and on. So, you can turn on Live Video for some slides, and turn it off for
others. Okay for this first slide, I'm going to adjust the Live Video object so that it fills
the entire slide, so we have a full-screen video for the introduction of our presentation.
Alright, for this second slide, I’m going to add a small, talking-head video down here in the
lower-right corner of the slide. A typical picture-in-picture layout for tutorial or
lecture-style videos. So, we’ll go back up to the top Toolbar and select Media and from the dropdown
menu, select Live Video. And the Live video object appears on the slide. Over in the Inspector,
make sure under Live Video, Source, that Cam Link 4K is activated. Alright, now I'm going
to modify the Live Video object. Making sure the Live Video object is selected, in the Inspector
I'm going to go down to the Mask section, and from the dropdown menu select the Circle preset.
That puts my video source into a circular frame. Okay now I'm going to drag on these
corner handles to size the Live Video object, so that it fits down in the right-bottom
corner of the slide. Alright, now what I want to do is make this circular Live Video object
stand out a bit more on this slide. So making sure the Live Video object is selected,
I'll go over to the Inspector and select the Style button. Under the Border Section,
I'm going to select the menu that says No Border. And from the dropdown I'm going to select
Line. And I get a border around the circular Live Video frame. The default colour of the
border is black. So I'm going to change that by selecting the colour selector down here.
And from the preset colours, select white. And now I have a white border around the Live Video
object, to help it pop a bit on the slide. Now I can change the thickness of the border over here.
But five points is fine. So now I have a nice, picture-in-picture,
talking-head video set up on my second slide, still using the Mirrorless Camera video source.
Alright, for this third slide, we're going to get a little more creative with the Live Video
feature here in Keynote. I’m going to create a picture-in-picture using an overhead camera shot.
A great setup for doing desktop demo videos. So the first thing I’m going to do is I'm going to go
back to the first slide with the Live Video object with the full-screen Mirrorless Camera shot.
Right-click, or control-click on the Live Video object and select copy from the pop-up menu.
You could also use the keyboard shortcut command-c. Then I'm going to go back and select
the third slide. Then right-click or control-click and select Paste from the pop-up menu, or you can
use the keyboard shortcut command-v, to paste a copy of the mirrorless camera Live Video object
onto this third slide. Alright now I'm going to change the video source for this copy of the Live
Video object with the full-screen shot. I have a webcam mounted over my desk that I’ll add as the
new video source for this Live Video Object. To add the webcam, like before, with the Live Video
Object selected, in the inspector, select this little downward-facing arrow on the video source
in the Live Video Source box. And you get the pop-out menu showing all the video sources.
Select the Plus button at the top-right. And you get the dialogue in the middle of the screen where
you can add a new Live Video Source. I’ll name the source "Overhead webcam.” I'll select the menu at
the bottom. And from the list of connected video sources I'll select Logitech Brio, which is the
overhead webcam. And a preview of the webcam shot pops up in the middle of the Live Video dialogue.
Select the add button. And the video feed from the webcam appears inside the Live Video object
on the slide. You can also see the new webcam source selected under Source in the Live Video
inspector panel over here. And because I copied and pasted the full-screen Live Video object from
the first slide, the webcam shot is automatically full-screen on this third slide. Alright next,
l’ll go back and select the second slide. Then I'll select the circle-frame talking head video,
which is the Mirrorless Camera shot, right-click or control-click, select copy,
or use the keyboard shortcut command-c. Then I’ll go back and select the third slide.
Right-click, or control click on the slide and select Paste. You could also use the
keyboard shortcut command-v. And there's the circle-frame video from the mirrorless camera feed
on top of the webcam overhead shot. I’ve combined two different video sources on one slide! So,
now you can do a tabletop demonstration, with a talking-head shot, all inside of Keynote.
Alright for this fourth and final slide I’m going to use an iPad display as a Live Video source.
You can also use your iPhone for this. There is one caveat. If you're on an M1 Mac, you need to be
running macOS Monterey version 12 or higher to be able to use your iPhone or iPad display as a video
source. Intel Macs running Big Sur 11.6 or higher can bring in iPhone and iPad displays no problem.
To use your iPad or iPhone display as a video source, you first need to attach the device to
your Mac using a cable, typically the USB cable that came with your iPad or iPhone. Alright,
I’ll select the fourth slide. Then I’ll add a new Live Video object by going up to the
top Toolbar and selecting the Media button and from the dropdown menu selecting Live Video.
With the Live Video object selected I'm going to go over to the Live Video inspector panel.
I'm going to select this little downward-facing arrow on the Default Camera source box
and from the popup menu select the Plus button at the top-right and in the Live Video dialogue
I'll name the new video source "iPad display”. I'll select the menu at the bottom and from the
connected sources list select iPad. And there is the iPad display in the preview window. I'll
select the add button. And the video feed from the iPad appears inside the Live Video object on the
slide. I’ll change the Mask setting for the iPad display from Device Portrait to Device landscape.
I’ll adjust the iPad Live Video object so that it fills the slide by adjusting the corner handles.
Then I’ll go back and select the third slide. Then I'll select the
circle-frame talking head Live Video object, right-click or control-click, select copy.
Then I'll go back and select the fourth slide. Right-click, or control click on the slide and
select Paste. And there's the circle-frame video over top of the video feed from the iPad display.
So, now I can do things like do an iPad software tutorial or make a whiteboard video
using my Apple Pencil and an application like Goodnotes, demonstrate a website.
Now if you're wondering, you cannot capture audio from a Live Video source, just video. So audio
from a website like YouTube for example will not play through a Live Video object. Wait a minute
Mike, Keynote's Live Video doesn't capture audio. Well what good is that? Am I just going to be a
silent talking head in my presentation? Now would I do that to you? In order to capture audio with
your Live Video you need to record your slideshow in Keynote. Now I'm not going to go into extensive
detail on how to use Keynote's recording feature in this video. I have a couple of other videos
that go in depth on that and I'll leave links to those videos in the description but I will
walk you through the basic process. To record my slideshow I'll first make sure the slide I
want to start from is selected then I'll go up to the top menu and select Play, Record Slideshow.
This opens Keynote's slideshow recording interface. Taking a quick look at this interface
this 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 this next part is very important. Remember what I said before: the live video object just
captures video not audio so in order to capture your voice along with your live video in Keynote
you need to use the microphone recording feature down here in the Keynote recording interface.
Now you can use the built-in microphone on your mac but I recommend using an external
microphone for better quality. To set up your microphone for recording in Keynote
first close the Keynote recording interface by selecting this X button in the top right.
Go up to the top menu and select the Apple icon and from the menu select System Preferences.
Go over and select Sound to open the sound interface. Make sure the input button is selected
and from the list of audio inputs select the microphone you want to use
then speak into the mic at the level you use for your presentation and adjust the input
level slider to make sure you have a strong audio level without distorting. You don't want your mic
level to peak past the third or second-to-last dot on the level indicator. With your microphone
set up exit out of System Preferences and go back to the Keynote recording interface.
And when you speak into the microphone you can see the mic level indicator down here bouncing
back and forth which means keynote is getting an audio signal. So now your voice will be recorded
along with your live video. Alright let's record. To record my slideshow I select the record button
then I can just step through my slides by hitting the forward arrow key.
Alright I'll select the record button and I get this countdown
and we're recording. So this is the first slide with the full screen
mirrorless camera shot. I'll move forward to the second slide here with me in the corner
and this is a typical keynote slide with graphics and text and you can see builds or animations.
A nice little setup for doing tutorial videos. And then I'll go to the third slide
and here we are with the great tabletop shot and me in the corner
down there in the circle frame again with the mirrorless camera. Great for tabletop demos.
And then finally to the fourth slide with the iPad display. So we can do things like do
iPad software tutorials or play websites, things like that.
When I'm ready to stop recording I'll just select the stop button and at the bottom of
the interface you can see the timeline of my recording which is this blue bar.
Now I can play back my recorded slideshow by clicking and dragging
the playhead back to the beginning of the timeline or I can just select the rewind button
then press the play button to play back
And we're recording... So then there's the recorded slideshow with my live
video talking head and voice recorded through an external microphone. The great thing about
Keynote is that it records a continuous independent audio track with your slideshow
so on slides that don't have a Live Video object you can still record a voiceover, very handy.
Alright now that this slideshow is recorded I can export it as a video. So to do that I'm just going
to get out of the Keynote recording interface by clicking on this X button in the top-right corner.
Then I'll go up to the top menu in Keynote and select File, Export, Movie
and the movie export dialog pops up. So for playback I'm going to select the dropdown
menu and select slideshow recording because I want to export the recording that I just made.
Under the resolution menu I'll select 1080p. This will export my slideshow as a high definition
1920x1080 video. And I'll go down here and select next. Then I get the familiar save dialog.
I'll give the exported video a file name, select a location to save to on my Mac
then I'll hit export and the recorded Keynote slideshow is exported
as a high definition video that I can share. Here's a quick look at the final exported video.
And we're recording...So this is the first slide... one full screen mirrorless camera
shot... and this is a typical Keynote slide with graphics... slide two... uh text and you can see
builds or animations... and here we are with the great tabletop shot... slide three... corner down
there in the circle frame... and then finally to the fourth slide with... and slide four... iPad
display... And keep in mind the Live Video object is like pretty much every other type of object
in Keynote so you can animate it using builds and actions to add some pizzazz to your presentation.
And everything that I showed you that we recorded you can do live through a platform
like Zoom or any other platform that allows you to share your screen and your microphone sound.