Zoom in on a section of a Keynote slide

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Zoom in on a section of a Keynote slide

I would like to be able to smoothly zoom in on a portion of an image on a Keynote slide - that is, the section should fill the screen as the selected portion of the image gets larger. I have tried the various transition effects like Scale (works if desired section is centered in image - the section I want to zoom in on is off-center), and Magic Move (as far as I can tell, it does not zoom - it fades out the starting image, then fades in the portion of the image that has been selected for magnification). My recollection is that I could do a smooth zoom in with Keynote a number of years ago. Keynote version is 13.1 (7037.0.101)

iMac 27″, macOS 12.7

Posted on Aug 8, 2024 8:55 AM

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Camelot

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Aug 14, 2024 10:30 AM in response to BWhitman

Glad you got there in the end.

The thing I find with Magic Move is that it's great when it works, but when it doesn't, it's hard to understand why. It's complicated by the not-completely intuitive way of setting it up and how Keynote determines which item(s) to focus on.

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Camelot

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Aug 10, 2024 7:55 PM in response to BWhitman

Without knowing your exact goal, it's hard to be precise, but from what you've said it sounds like Magic Move should be able to do what you want.

The trick with Magic Move is that you have to have a common object (e.g. an image) on both slides. What I tend to do is create the first slide, then duplicate it, and just change the item (e.g. the image) to the zoomed in version. You can reposition the image, scale it, crop it, and make other changes (as long as you don't delete it).

The Magic Move transition should take into account all the edits and seems to give a 'zoom in' effect on a non-centered image in my trials.

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BWhitman Author

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Aug 13, 2024 8:17 AM in response to Camelot

Thanks for your reply. When I originally attempted to use Magic Move to achieve the zoom-in effect that I wanted, I duplicated the first slide, then cropped & enlarged the image on the second slide to what I wanted to show. The effect that I saw was that the image on the first slide faded out, then the image on the second slide faded in. After reading your reply, I realized that this was probably not the correct thing to do - on the second slide I needed to enlarge the original image and then center the portion I was interested in within the slide boundaries. That worked as I expected. The only awkward thing was that since what I wanted to zoom in on was at the edge of the image, the resulting image was off-center in the frame. I solved that, after a fashion, by putting a black rectangle (I was using black background) to make the image look centered in the slide boundaries. Since that rectangle fades in with the zoomed image, the effect is a little weird but it is the only way I can think of to do it.

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