[DM-MUG] Moving from a Keynote Presentation to a DVD

[Victoria L. Herring]

I have spent the past two days struggling with this [as Holly and 
others can attest] because the export to iDVD didn't work etc.  In 
any event, here are the steps, for those who want to know =

Steps in creating a self-playing DVD from Keynote

April 3, 2007

Have a DVD ready to put in computer and have all your audio and video 
assets ready to work with

creat the Keynote, make sure all the transitions, builds, music and 
images are as you like them

export the Keynote via QuickTime - selfplaying movie, video full 
size, 640x480 pixels [I had 1040x768 slides in Keynote and exported 
full size without changing the pixels, letting iMovie do what it 
wanted to], click settings and set compression to Animation, depth to 
millions of colors, quality to best, frames per second to 29.97 and 
then click okay, name the file and hit export. 
	[http://forums.appleinsider.com/archive/index.php/t-7693.html]


The video file that results will open in iMovie -- import the .mov 
file that resulted from the QT export into iMovie.  Then add in the 
audio via the media area [i.e., using iTunes, select the tune and 
place it at playhead].  Do whatever cuts and edits you wish to in 
iMovie.  Save your project.

Share the iMovie project to iDVD - that program will launch and ask 
you to insert a DVD....do so.  Then it'll go ahead and do all the 
encoding etc. that may be necessary.

Go to Chart view [esp. if you don't want to use the themes Apple 
supplies] and click and drag the project movie to the first 'square' 
which says that whatever is there will start up automatically upon 
insertion of the DVD.  That way you don't have the themes 
controlling;  you could if you want, though.

Highlight/click the lst 'square' which is now the slide for your 
Project Movie and in iDVD go to Advanced and click on Looping.  That 
way the movie plays without it getting to the Themes.

Go ahead and burn disk.  Test it = after many tries, it played just 
fine in the DVD/TV....Thanks to all who helped solve the problem.
-- 
Victoria L. Herring, Attorney, Civil Rights, Discrimination & 
Employment Law, <http://www.HerringLaw.com>;  Travel research, 
planning & Photography site and blog, 
<http://www.JourneyZing.com/blog>;  Des Moines, Iowa, ph.515-255-4475.
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