Keynote App Tips & Lessons
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Keynote Classes2 Lessons
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Keynote on the Mac, iPad, and iPhone2 Lessons
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Getting Around Keynote32 Lessons
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Sample Presentation
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A Look at Keynote’s Interface
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Build a Quick Keynote Presentation
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Document Settings for Presentations
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Create, Skip, and Rearrange Slides in Keynote on the Mac
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Working with Slide Layouts
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Select, Change, and Save Themes
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Add and Format Objects to Slides
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How make image adjustments directly in Keynote on the Mac
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Arrange and Layer Objects in a Slide
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Add Transitions between Slides
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Add a Live Video Feed to a Keynote Slide
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Animate Slides with Magic Move Transitions
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Animate Keynote Objects with Build In and Build Outs
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Set the Build Order for Objects on a Keynote Slide
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Customize the Presenter Display in Keynote
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Add Presenter Notes
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Print Options for Presentations
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Add Comments and Highlight Text to Slides and Objects
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Share, Collaborate, and add Comments to Presentations
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Rehearse and Present your Slideshow
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Using an iPhone as a Remote
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Create Links Only Slideshows
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Record Narrated Slideshows
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How to Present Your Keynote Slideshow Online with Keynote Live
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Export your Slideshow
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A look at Keynote Preferences
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Customize Keynote’s Toolbar
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Keynote Preferences
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Customizing the Toolbar
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Restoring a Previously Saved Keynote Document
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Save, Duplicate, and Restore Previously Saved Documents
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Sample Presentation
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Working with Slides in Keynote4 Lessons
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Working with Text in Keynote5 Lessons
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Working with Tables in Keynote6 Lessons
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Working with Charts in Keynote5 Lessons
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Working with Shapes in Keynote4 Lessons
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Working with Media in Keynote6 Lessons
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Arranging and Layering Objects in Keynote5 Lessons
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Transitions, Builds, and Actions in Keynote5 Lessons
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Presenting your Keynote Presentation5 Lessons
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Sharing your Keynote Presentation2 Lessons
Add a Soundtrack to Your Keynote Presentation on the Mac
Learn how to add a soundtrack or background audio to a presentation in Keynote on the Mac.
Did you know you can add music to your Keynote presentation? The music will play while you go through all your slides and when it’s over, it will start again from the beginning. You can even add more than one song if you want! Check out this video to learn how to add a soundtrack to your Keynote presentation on a Mac.
Video TranscriptionIn this video, we’re going to look at how we can add background audio as a soundtrack in our Keynote presentation, let’s go to my Mac. Now when we add background audio as a soundtrack, what it will do is it’ll play throughout the entire presentation just plays in the background, it doesn’t really matter which slide you’re on. So it works a little bit different than adding audio to a slide.
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If you’ve watched my video on adding audio to a slide, it will only play on that slide. So how do we add audio as a soundtrack? Well, all we have to do is just go up to our documents, settings, and our toolbar here. And then you’re going to see audio. When I click on Audio, here, you’re going to see soundtrack, all I need to do is just add my soundtrack here, and you can add more than one song. And then once you add that, when you play your presentation, it’s going to play in the background, it’s going to play across all of your different slides.
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Now I can add music by drag and drop, I can go to my Finder here and drag and drop from a folder that has some music in it. Or if I have my music in the music app, what I can do is I can click on the plus here, that’s what I’m going to do. So I click on this, and I have all of my music and my music app, I’m going to add these two songs here. So all I have to do is just select them, I click on the plus again, and I select the second one. And we can see we have those two songs in there. So now that I have those two songs in there, what do I want it to do, once it gets through those two songs, I can have it loop. Or what I can do is I can have it just play once. If I do not want to have it on at all, I can also just turn this off, so it is not going to have that soundtrack. So it’s a way that you could add the music but turn it off temporarily. I’m going to have it loop. So once that music gets done, it’s going to start over again.
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So I constantly have music as I’m given the presentation. And then we can also set the volume. So I’m going to select a song here, I can select the volume, you can see it’s set pretty low, because usually you want background music to be a little bit softer. I’m going to turn this up a little bit so we can hear it. Now when you adjust this volume, it does adjust for all of the music in your soundtrack. So even though I have this one selected here, it does adjust it for this one as well. So if I go and select this one, and I turn it up a little bit, you’re going to see that when I go to my first one here, it is also turned up, so it adjusts it for both. So now I’ve just added a soundtrack. Let’s see how this works, it’s going to be a little bit loud. While you might be able to hear it as a little bit, it’s going to be a little bit louder than what I would recommend when you’re given a presentation. But being that my setup has my microphone here, I had to turn it up a little bit. So I’m going to click on play here.
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And if we listen, you’re going to hear that music concerts a little bit quiet. And it’s going to play throughout the entire presentation. Now as I go to the next slide, that music will keep playing. Also, if I come across a slide that has music in it, or has a movie with sound, that music or that movie will continue playing with the sound as well. So it’s going to play both of them at the same time. But as you can see, it’s just playing in the background. And as I go through my presentation, it’ll continue playing when it gets done. When my presentation gets done, what it will do is it will loop and start playing again. It’s going to play both of these songs as my soundtrack.
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So that’s how we can add background audio, or audio as a soundtrack and Keynote on the Mac. Basically, all we have to do is just go to our document settings and then we go to Audio. From there, we can drag and drop our different music that we want to have as our soundtrack. You can have multiple songs. You’ll then want to set if you want it to repeat or if you just want to play once. You can also turn it off, set your volume and then all you have to do is just play your presentation. And that background audio that soundtrack will play throughout the entire presentation. So that’s how you add background audio as a soundtrack and Keynote on the Mac.