Movie Credits with Keynote
I was always impressed at Keynote’s tag phrase ‘Cinema quality presentations for everyone’ and wondered was this really the case. If you are a Final Cut Pro user you may by now feel a little limited by the power of the titling functions within the application. Many of my graphic design colleagues employ the power of Photoshop with Final Cut to create their graphics but what about Keynote ?
If you want to create quick yet eye catching final credits for a movie I highly recommend Keynote. Transitions and effects in Keynote 08 help you build cinema-quality presentations. New transitions give you more choices for transporting your audience from slide to slide, flexible text animation puts your words in the spotlight, and interleaved builds offer additional options for every element in your slides.
If you create your end credits as a series of Keynote slides you can add a range of animated effects and images to puctuate the message. There are over two dozen transitions to choose from all of which retain their animation once exported to Quicktime.
It should also be remembered that you can embed video within your Keynote presentation so you are not limited to end titles featuring simply text and image.
Once you have completed your credits simply export the presentation to QT : Click “Export” in the file menu.
Select Custom to ensure you export your quicktime both at the correct resolution and compression.
You can now adjust the quality of the end titles:
Once complete (this may take some time depending on the amount of animation used) you can import your end credits in to iMovie or Final Cut.
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Been using Keynote for a little while now as a quick ‘n dirty animator for logo sweeps etc. then into iMovie. Works fine!
[...] 3. Export Options Yes you can save a Keynote as a Powerpoint file but over the last year I have been exporting in a number of different options. There is the PDF handout, but better still you can export as images for use on a website, as a flash video and best of all as a Quicktime for iPod. Imagine at the end of your presentation saying that your Keynote is available on your blog in iPod format for revision later on! Better still it is a one click option. The quality of the Quicktime is good enough to be used in iMovie and even FinalCut. Check out our tutorial on Movie Credit Creation. [...]