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[Holly Welch]

How different is the sound capability in Quicktime Pro than iMovie?
On May 28, 2006, at 7:22 PM, John Kisner wrote:

> I find it amazing how many different pieces of Apple software are  
> needed to do a slide show with music.
>
> 1. Keynote to create the slides.  The background themes and  
> templates are slick, and you can add titles and captions where needed.
>
> 2. I wanted to use the "Ken Burns Effect" for some of the slides  
> (where the projection zooms in or back while showing a slide,  
> giving the illusion of motion).  This is not available in Keynote,  
> so I exported my Keynote slides (371 in all) to iPhoto.  iPhoto  
> does not, however, incorporate all the transitions used in Keynote,  
> so I had to decide whether "Ken Burns Effect" was more important to  
> me than some 3-D effects exclusive to Keynote.
>
> 3. iPhoto can create a pretty slick slide show, but the music is a  
> bit lacking.  I will have to export my slide show to QuickTime in  
> order to have the soundtrack just the way I want it (with a slight  
> overlap of songs).  I still need to upgrade to the new "pro"  
> version of QuickTime, to do this properly.
>
> I find it interesting that iPhoto does some things that Keynote, a  
> more advanced piece of software, does not do.  It's also  
> interesting that neither handles sound as well as QuickTime Pro.
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