Keynote 2 - Page 2

TangentIdea · #9 March 29th, 2005, 06:34 PM

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Originally Posted by aquamacus

So does anyone know of a good way to show these presentations full-screen if exported to Quicktime? I know you can do it if you have Quicktime Pro, but anyone know of another way?

VLC Media Player, or RealPlayer. Both support full-screen QuickTime on primary or secondary screens. VLC can be configured to default to playing full-screen on the secondary screen.

Decado · #10 March 30th, 2005, 07:57 AM

i mainly use Playlist Player (and VLC for more "complex" codecs).
i think Playlist Player is pretty and all (great for watching saved television series). the only thing i find lacking is the poor forward/rewind functionality.

Durbrow · #11 March 30th, 2005, 12:56 PM

Anyone using Keynote 2 on a 400 mhz G4? Also, I heard that not all transitions are available for G4's running at 1 gig speed.

TangentIdea · #12 March 30th, 2005, 05:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Durbrow

Anyone using Keynote 2 on a 400 mhz G4? Also, I heard that not all transitions are available for G4's running at 1 gig speed.

I think the transition performance depends more on your video card than the computer itself, since Keynote unloads a lot of that processing on to the card via OpenGL. I'm running Keynote 2 on an 800mhz G4 PowerMac with a 32mb Radeon 9600 card and a 32mb Rage128 card for a second display. The Rage128 is noticeably worse than the Radeon -- I'll be replacing it. The transitions aren't really as much of a problem as the advanced text builds.

Be advised that you can overclock your ATI video cards using ATIccelerator II.

mindbend · #13 April 2nd, 2005, 09:52 PM

FWIW, I run Keynote on an 800MHZ G4 iBook and it runs quite well. Most of the transitions and text effects are glass. It can't run a handful of effects, but they're grayed out so it's not like you have to worry about them performing at half rate.

One area that takes a hit is video. If I try to put too high quality of video (high frame rate and quality settings or a demanding codec) in a keynote presentation, the iBook will choke it through. On our 17" PowerBook everything is stellar.

Without doing any true investigating, it seems like Keynote sort of pre-caches slides. If you page through really fast, the effects and such will take a hit and can't keep up, but if you have a more leisurely pace even the iBook does very well.