What can Keynote do "better" than FCP?

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What can Keynote do "better" than FCP?

Yesterday I phoned a friend and during the conversation he mentioned that he had "discovered" Keynote and was experimenting with it.

At that point I brightly informed him that Keynote could do some video actions better than FCP but almost immediately realised that I could not remember what they were!

So could anyone fill in the gaps in my memory as to what processes can be done either better or more easily than FCP?

There may even be some video techniques that only Keynote can do?

iMac 27″ 5K, macOS 12.6

Posted on Jul 4, 2023 11:47 AM

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Luis Sequeira1

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Jul 4, 2023 12:45 PM in response to Ian R. Brown

(Apologies for the longish reply)

I don’t use Keynote very often, but you could, for instance, use some of its templates to create title sequences, and since you can use animations in and between slides, and it has vector shapes, I’d say Keynote could in some cases be used as a sort of substitute more for Motion than for FCP. In other words, not as a tool to combine your graphic elements and footage into a finished movie, but as a tool to generate some animated graphic elements that you can use in your movie.

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