Problems burning Quicktime movie to CD/DVD - dreadful playback

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Jim0203

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Hi,

My girlfriend is currently preparing her application for an artist's residency in Edinburgh, Scotland. As part of this she wants to put together a short movie showcasing her photographs, with an audio track in the background. Because her technical skills are not great, she used Keynote to produce a presentation because of its simplicity. We then spent a great deal of time trying to export the Keynote file to a Quicktime movie without the audio/visual sync messing up.

Eventually we managed to export a working version of the movie by exporting it as a quicktime "interactive slideshow", with the video and the audio as two separate quicktime files. So far so good. But then when I copy the two quicktime files to a CD and play them back from the CD, the playback takes an age to start, my CD drive makes all sorts of weird noises, and the eventual playback is very jittery.

The video is around 3 mins long and is around 600MB in size. Is this merely a matter of the video being too big to play directly from a CD? Can anyone offer any suggestions? I am rather desperate as my gf's application has to be in tomorrow and she has been working at it for a very, very long time only for technical problems to mess everything up at the last minute.
 
How about using iPhoto to export a movie instead? Create a slideshow in iPhoto where you can also add an audio track from iTunes. Once you have your slideshow all setup the way you want it, go to the "File" menu in iPhoto and choose export.
 
Thanks. Unfortunately time is rather pressing so that isn't an option, but after struggling for a whole day with trying to get it sorted I have just managed to do it. Here's what I've done today, in case it is any use to anyone:

My gf (http://www.rosedelarrabeiti.com) is trying to put together a video of her photos with a song playing in the background. She was using keynote as that was the simplest way to do it with all the transitions.

She exported it to a Quicktime file, but because of the size of the file this could not play on a CD. The synchronization was also out, but we managed to get round this by exporting separate audio and video files. When you ran the video file it automatically ran the audio file. But, either way, the CD drive just couldn't spin quickly enough. So I bought a USB flash drive and copied the audio and video files over to that - but for some reason, the video file now did not cue the audio when I played it. I was starting to despair.

But, fortunately, I was now in the digital lab of a gallery which does a lot of this sort of stuff (http://www.stills.org). I got chatting to a guy there, and we worked out that if we imported the QT audio and video as separate tracks in an iMovie file we could then export a single QT file from iMovie, which held both the audio and video. This we did; it is rendering at the moment but I did a low-quality preview and it was fine.

So, there you go. Well done to whoever wrote keynote and made the export to Quicktime function so crappy!
 
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