Customize the Presenter Display in Keynote

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In this video, we’re going to look at how we can customize the presenter display. Let’s go to my Mac. So I’m in Keynote here. And what we can do when we’re given the presentation is customize what we see as the presenter. Now this best works when you hook up a second monitor to your computer to your Mac. In most cases, when you give a presentation, you’ll probably have it hooked up to a projector. When you have it hooked up to a second monitor or projector, when you give your slideshow, your attendees are going to see your slides that you’ve just built. But then what you can do is you can set to see the presenter notes, you can see what the next slide is you can add a timer, we can customize what the presenter sees this is going to show on the Mac itself. In order to customize what you see when you’re given the presentation. What you need to do is go up to play in the menu bar. And then you go down to customize presenter display.

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When I select this, it does go into full screen mode. And from here I’m able to customize what I see. Now right now I can see that I have a clock up here. I also have the current slide, I can see what the next slide is or how many builds there are remaining. I also have the live video source, I do have a live video object. And then I have let’s go ahead and move this out of here. I have the presenter notes. In order to customize what we see here, what we do is we go to this window that I moved around a little bit ago. This window here allows us to add and remove different options for our presenter display. So we can see that we have here my current slide if I do not want to see the current slide, maybe I can see it on the projector, I just deselect this, and we can see I removed it from my presenter display, it is still going to show when you’re given the presentation, it’s just not going to show on this presenter display.

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We can also set if we want to see the next slide, we can see what we have here. The next slide, I deselect this, and it no longer shows. We also have our presenter notes. I’m going to move this out of the way again, here are my presenter notes, I no longer want to see that I just deselect it. So we can easily customize what is shown on our presenter display. I also have always show live video. If you have a live video slide the object where you can add a live video, you can always show that so you can kind of see how you’re positioned even though you’re not on that slide. So I do have a slide with live video. This is going to show throughout all of the slides. So I can kind of see if I’m getting off of the camera or anything like that. Now if you do not have a live video object, you’ll want to turn this off, we can also have the ready to advance indicator, this is the green bar that is up at the top here. Basically what this does is this turns green when the slide is ready to move on to the next slide. So if you have a movie that is playing, while displaying, you will not see that green bar up at the top here because it’s not ready to advance. Once that movie is done, or once the music is done on that particular slide, then what you’ll see is ready to advance you’ll see the green bar. So when I deselect this, you’ll see that that bar is no longer there.

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So if you have movies or audio on your sides, you may want to leave this on. We also have our clock, let’s go ahead and add my slides back in here. So you have a little bit of information in here. So I have my clock up here. This is the current time. But I can also show a timer here. Select this. And now we have a timer. So what is it going to do? Well it can show the elapsed or remaining time. So when you start your presentation, it’s going to show the elapsed time, or what you can do is you can show the remaining time and you can enter in here, how long before it’s remaining. So let’s go ahead and enter five minutes. And now we can sit set for five minutes. And then we can also set which camera we see when we’re using our live video object. When I select this, I can select from a different camera. So if you had a webcam hooked up to your computer, you’d be able to select the webcam. When you are done, all you have to do is just click on OK. And now you’ve set up that presenter display. When you are ready to give the presentation you just click on play here. And then that presenter display will show on your computer as long as you have a second monitor or projector connected to your Mac. We can also rehearse if I go up to play here, you’re going to see we have rehearse slideshow and when I select this, you’re going to see I have a lot of the same options.

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The one thing that is missing here is I cannot customize that. What I need to do is I need to go over to these little boxes here. And then when I click on this, I’m able to customize it. So this is another way of customizing this rehearsing it. So as you’re rehearsing it, you may see like, Ah, maybe I don’t need to have my presenter notes, or maybe I do need to show the presenter notes, you can turn them on and off, even while rehearsing them while you’re rehearsing. You can also show your navigator which is going to show you all of your different slides. So that’s how we can customize our presenter display in Keynote on the Mac. Basically, what you’ll do is you’ll go up to play in the menu bar, and then you’ll go to Customize presenter display. From there we can set if we want to show a clock a timer. If we want to show the next slide. If Keynote is ready to advance to the next slide. We can also show our presenter notes. So that’s how we customize the presenter display in Keynote on the Mac.