good tip. but if you have let's say the presentation going over a projector or what ever they call it now a days, will the audience hear slide 1, etc? How do you make those go to a separate sound card and have your video clips go to the projector's sound card?
Good luck and nice tip. On Nov 4, 2012, at 10:14 PM, Bryan Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I've grown pretty fond of Keynote on my Mac & iPad, but one glaring > accessibility shortcoming is the lack of VO feedback when a slide or > presentation is played in Slide Show mode as is commonly done when making a > large screen presentation. AFAIK there is still no way to have VO indicate > which slide is currently displayed in this mode. > > To get around this shortcoming I've begun embedding an MP3 audio file in each > slide. The audio file is simply a 1 or 2 second recording of me speaking the > slide number, for example "Slide One." This MP3 is played automatically as I > move between slides. > > Here are the steps I've used to do this. Hope somebody else finds this > useful, and my apologies if this idea has already been offered here. > 1. Create the audio files, one for each slide.. I'm sure there are a million > ways to do this, but I made mine with my standard apple earbuds with inline > mic plugged into my Macbook air running Amadeus. I saved the audio in MP3 > format. > 2. In Keynote on the Mac, focus on the desired slide and press > Command+Shift+V to open a file browser. Browse to the audio files you created > and select the desired file. This will insert the audio file into the slide. > As far as I can tell, there is no visible indication of this audio file > during a slide show, but when creating or editing your presentation you can > access it just as you would any other element on the slide. You can also > preview the clip from the "Media" tab of the Inspector. > 3. Repeat the process for each slide in your presentation. > > Now, when I put the presentation in Slide Show mode, the MP3 file embedded in > each slide plays automatically as I move to that slide. It works going > forward and backward both. If I have an audio file in the first slide, it > seems to activate on my second press of the spacebar or right arrow. I have > also saved the presentation in iCloud and presented it via my iPad2 connected > to a projector via the Apple VGA adapter, and these audio files played just > fine on the iPad. > > HTH, > Bryan > > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> > > To reply to this post, please address your message to > [email protected] > > You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at > either the list's own dedicated web archive: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> > or at the public Mail Archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. > Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> > > The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and > worm-free! > > Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting > the list website at: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
