Importing and Customizing Videos in Keynote

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00:00 Hello there.

00:01 In this video, I'm going to show you how to import a video in a Keynote file,

00:05 as well as the various settings revolving around it.

00:07 So let's say you made this file here and you would like to import

00:12 a video in this blank space.

00:13 All you have to do is head to the Media button at the top and then select Choose.

00:18 And from here, you can select the video you want on your computer and click Insert.

00:23 By default, it's going to make it full size,

00:25 but you can definitely scale it down and place it wherever you want.

00:30 As mentioned in the picture tutorial, we highly encourage you to use

00:36 the placeholder already available in our Keynote template to insert your videos.

00:41 But we know that sometimes videos require some specific layout.

00:47 So all you have to do for that is click to the Media button.

00:50 From here, you can click it once to have a preview of it.

00:54 And when you clicked it once on the Format and Movie tab,

00:59 you're going to see a couple of little settings.

01:01 Among them, the most important are here you can replace

01:05 the video you're using by clicking Replace.

01:08 Here you can trim the video, but removing a bit of the beginning,

01:11 a bit of the end if you want.

01:13 And here you can select if the video is going to loop or not.

01:17 And also if the movie is going to start by clicking while you're presenting

01:21 or if it's starting straight up when you start the page.

01:25 If you want to insert a video in a device like on this page here,

01:31 the process is the same as inserting a picture.

01:35 So you click on the placeholder icon, you select your file, and then it goes in.

01:40 As you can see, it's not exactly the same size as the placeholder.

01:45 Keynote is a bit restrictive regarding the sizes of video.

01:49 We cannot really crop them or whatever.

01:52 So this is why we decided to make placeholder devices

01:57 that are a bit out of frame, because this way you can cheat

02:01 and you can make the file a little bit bigger

02:03 and then place it in your device as if nothing happened.

02:06 Of course, it's going to cut a little bit of the content,

02:09 but if it's a visual mostly to inspire or not show in great detail,

02:14 this can be a really good option.

02:16 And then you can see it like this.

02:19 We also have a couple of other pages with other devices such as iPad

02:23 and iPhone that you can use.

02:25 We're going to cover that in a future video.

02:27 And that's it.