[DM-MUG] Topic of Meeting

[John Kisner]

I find it amazing how many different pieces of Apple software are  
needed to do a slide show with music.

1. Keynote to create the slides.  The background themes and templates  
are slick, and you can add titles and captions where needed.

2. I wanted to use the "Ken Burns Effect" for some of the slides  
(where the projection zooms in or back while showing a slide, giving  
the illusion of motion).  This is not available in Keynote, so I  
exported my Keynote slides (371 in all) to iPhoto.  iPhoto does not,  
however, incorporate all the transitions used in Keynote, so I had to  
decide whether "Ken Burns Effect" was more important to me than some  
3-D effects exclusive to Keynote.

3. iPhoto can create a pretty slick slide show, but the music is a  
bit lacking.  I will have to export my slide show to QuickTime in  
order to have the soundtrack just the way I want it (with a slight  
overlap of songs).  I still need to upgrade to the new "pro" version  
of QuickTime, to do this properly.

I find it interesting that iPhoto does some things that Keynote, a  
more advanced piece of software, does not do.  It's also interesting  
that neither handles sound as well as QuickTime Pro.