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Keynote does not export embedded video when exporting to movie format

Hi all,


I'm using Keynote 13.2. Latest version on a macbook pro 2019 16" model. Running Sonoma 14.0. (keynote last updated three days ago)


When I insert a movie clip into a presentation and there are other text animations in the presentation, when I export it to a movie format, the video does not play. It just jitters on the first second. The sound exports correctly, as do the text animations.


It doesn't matter what video I try (i have tried several), it makes no difference.


If I insert a video with no animations and export it, it works perfectly.


The slide format is portrait, but the video is formatted in canva to be the same dimensions as the slide.


Can someone please help?


thanks


MacBook Pro 16″, macOS 14.0

Posted on Sep 29, 2023 2:56 AM

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Posted on Oct 5, 2023 2:00 AM

I am having the same problem. Tried all settings for an entire day, thinking it might be a subtile setting. Worked fine before is what boggled me. Now I understand it is a bug after update to 13.2. And a humongous bug I should say. The "movie export" is bust if you use embedded video or animations. I wonder how many people are struggling with this as we speak. Apple please fix asap. If only I could roll back to 13.1


I use a lot of video in my presentations for clients, my hands are tight.

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Oct 5, 2023 2:00 AM in response to badgerbird

I am having the same problem. Tried all settings for an entire day, thinking it might be a subtile setting. Worked fine before is what boggled me. Now I understand it is a bug after update to 13.2. And a humongous bug I should say. The "movie export" is bust if you use embedded video or animations. I wonder how many people are struggling with this as we speak. Apple please fix asap. If only I could roll back to 13.1


I use a lot of video in my presentations for clients, my hands are tight.

Dec 21, 2023 6:23 PM in response to badgerbird

Same exact issue and I'm on a deadline! Exported the presentation from the Mac to iPad via AirDrop, then exported the presentation into a movie and shared it back to the Mac via AirDrop. I got lucky that this project is simple. Had it been one of my more complexed projects I would have been up a creek!


On another note, I found it interesting that iPad exports in .mov files. Just for giggles I tried exporting a slide with ProRess 422 LT just to see if the .mov would work being exported from Mac... it did not.

Nov 19, 2023 9:05 PM in response to badgerbird

I confirm I experience the same behaviour as this "I export my Keynote to a movie format, the video does not play. It just jitters on the first second. The sound exports correctly, as do the text animations."


  1. I have a Keynote with several animations
  2. I 'Record' the slideshow with an embedded voiceover soundtrack which I align with the slides
  3. The embedded video within the Keynote plays correctly in 'Play Recorded Slideshow'
  4. Video Exported from Keynote delivers 'the jitters' when played on: AppleTV, Quicktime and on my iPhone. So, I conclude the Movie export from Keynote version 13.2 is faulty.
  5. I opened an earlier Keynote that had succesfully exported the exact same pieces of video. That export movie was done on 2023-07-21 T15:17h, probably with the then-current Keynote. Interesting, the earlier-exported movie works fine. However, when I export the recorded slideshow using the current version of Keynote (13.2), I get 'the jitters'.
  6. Conclusion. A bug has been introduced into either Keynote 13.2, or whatever Keynote uses to render videos from a record Slideshow.
  7. My interim solution will be to use Screenflow to record the Recorded Slideshow.


My platform is

Keynote 13.2 (7038.0.87)

Ventura 13.6.1


iMac Retina 5K 27-inch 2017

Graphics Radeon Pro 580 8GB

3.8 GHz Quad

Memory 48 GB


Postscript

I also just tried the following, with no benefit

  1. Reset Keynote Settings/General/Adding Media/Optimise Movies for iPhone, iPad, older devices TO UNCHECKED

Oct 5, 2023 2:08 AM in response to tjeerd288

Taking a video and splitting it into parts so that i can animate text on each part of the video. Sort of like a presentation but so that the background video plays continuously behind the animated text. So where in keynote you've had a slide for for each part of the presentation with animated text and the video playing continuously in the background, the split part of the video in canva becomes the equivalent of a slide in keynote.

Oct 5, 2023 2:22 AM in response to badgerbird

Ah ok I get it. Thank you for explaining. Too much work around for me, I would have to reset my entire work mode. I use keynote movies for in-store tv screen presentations. It always has video component effects etc. With the right settings this worked like a charm, up to a few days ago. Can't believe I am running into this major problem with Keynote. I would expect Apple to be on top of it with such a product.

Dec 8, 2023 3:15 AM in response to badgerbird

1 - Make a duplicate of your original Keynote

2 - Right Click on the Duplicate of your Keynote and view the package contents.

3- Open the folder called “Data” and remove your embedded videos contained within it by moving them to another location or folder like your desktop.

4 - Re-encode your videos using “Handbreak.app” with similar format settings but outputting them with “Fast 1080p30” with video encoder set to “MPEG-4”

5 - Open the duplicate keynote file in keynote app. It should say the movies embedded are corrupt.

6 - Replace the media now in the document with your new re-encoded videos.

7 - Now export from keynote again and your new movie will look a lot better.

Feb 9, 2024 10:31 AM in response to badgerbird

I'VE GOT THE SOLUTION – but it may not work for everybody.


Okay Gang,


This issue has been a problem since May 29, 2022 when Keynote 12.1 was introduced or when it was updated on June 21, 2022. I know this because my wife's iMac is running 12.1 and the video export is screwed up there too, although not quite as screwed up as 13.0.


I never encountered the problem because I was using an older iMac which was running Keynote 11.0.1, and my older MacBook Pro was using Keynote 11.1. When I bought my new iMac, it came with 13.0 and suddenly I was stuck with the problem all of you are experiencing.


But I found a solution and it took me about three minutes to fix the problem.


It made sense to me that if I could install a previous version of Keynote, specifically 11.0 or 11.0.1, that would fix the problem. But I was talking to an Apple Advisor this morning and he said that wasn't possible. I thought he was wrong... and in fact, he was wrong.


After a search I found this site: https://www.inkppt.com/post/install-previous-version-keynote


It was created by a brilliant young man named Abhijeet Kumar, who is a student at The Pennsylvania State University: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abhijeeetkumar/ I'm now following Abjijeet on LinkedIn.


What Abhijeet's solution requires is for you to have access to an older iMac or laptop that is still running 11.0. Fortunately, I'm always slow to update applications, so both of my other Macs were running versions of Keynote 11.


As I said, it took about three minutes to install the old version from my MacBook onto my new iMac and to toss 13.0 into the trash. [Note: Abhijeet grew up in India where they refer to the "trash," as the "bin." So you will see "bin" in his instructions on getting rid of 13.0.]


So now on my new iMac I'm running Keynote 11.0.1 which was created in 2021 and last modified on March 30, 2021 and it works perfectly.


Shame on Apple's Keynote team for not correcting this issue three years ago when it popped up.


Best of luck to all of you!


Sincerely



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