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Convert a Keynote presentation into a video file for use on a mobile phone using Toast

Keynote

You can use this guide for converting a Keynote 3.0 Presentation into a movie file which can then be played on a PSP. This guide should also be useful for converting Keynote 2 and Keynote 1 files.

Open your Keynote presentation.

Keynote screenshot

From the menu File > Export...

Keynote screenshot

Click the Quicktime button.

Keynote screenshot

Change the Playback Control: to Self-Playing Movie.

Keynote screenshot

Change the slide duration from the default 5 seconds if you have a lot of text to something like 10 seconds. Another option is to use audio tracks on the slides which negates the need to have a long slide duration.

Ensure that the Formats: is set to Full Quality, Large.

Keynote screenshot

Save the resulting movie file to a suitable location.

Keynote screenshot

Keynote will now export your presentation as a Quicktime movie.

Keynote screenshot

Having done this you can now open Toast and click the video tab.

Screenshot of Toast

Drag the video file that you exported from eyeTV from Finder to Toast.

Screenshot of Toast

Select the video file.

Screenshot of Toast

Click the Export button.

Screenshot of Toast

This will bring up a new window.

Screenshot of Toast

Using the drop down dialogue, change the default DV setting to 3G (Toast remembers the last export format you chose).

Screenshot of Toast

Toast will add the .3gp extension for the recording.

Screenshot of Toast

Click Save

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Wait...

Copy the converted file over to your Mobile Phone and press play.

I have tested the resulting video files on a Sony Ericsson S700i and a P910i and the video file worked on both even though both are not 3G phones.