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Uploading Keynote Files to Fuze Meeting
Greg Saiz
posted this on May 24, 2011 21:11
UPDATE: Higher quality Keynote uploads are now available with Fuze. You don't need to manually export Keynote to Quicktime for high quality.
While you can upload Keynote files directly to Fuze Meeting, you way wish to manually upload in order to get the best control over quality, frame rates, dimensions, etc. See the attached PDF for more details.
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Greg - I tried the process in this PDF, but found my resulting Keynote on Fuze still had an auto advance. Did that mean I did not follow the export process correctly? Or is there some other mechanism in Fuze to turn off the auto advance?
In contrast, I noticed that uploaded PPT have a manual advance by default. Does the Keynote export process above produce a comparable manual advance once uploaded to Fuze?
Hi Peter, the resulting files do play like a movie so you'll need to use play/pause or scrub to move to the next animation or transition. We are working with Apple to see if we can decode the transition/animation details in the movie. I'll post here if we get something. One other note: we are a few days away from deploying an update that will allow you to upload Keynote directly to Fuze and have it render high quality.
I've been using the new version, and I don't find the presentations to be what I'd call high quality, and with having to scrub through I may as well upload a video of the presentations. Basically, the only difference I see now is that I can upload the keynote file directly and it rips it on your end. I really am hoping to seethe ability to use a keynote file the way I would in any presentation I do. Trying to scrub through or hit play and pause really isn't practical. I see this as the most critical need for me as a user.
It's ironic that Fuze is so well integrated into iPad but .PPT runs better than .KEY
This Thursday Feb 23rd 2012, we are scheduled to deploy a new version of our Keynote support. Keynote uploads will be much higher resolution - unfortunately, they still render as a video file so you'll need to use play/pause and scrub to advance animations. We are working with Apple to see if anything can be done to improve this but for now, it is the best we can do. Some additional good news, the iPad is now frame accurate so you can scrub frame by frame to stop right where you want.
Hi Greg, checking in here every day for the update that will allow us to upload Keynote directly to Fuze and have it render high quality. Any chance you will deploy this within the next days? Will you notify us, or do we need to come here to find out?
The higher quality Keynote transcode is now on production. Just upload your Keynote files directly and we will convert them with the same high quality settings you'd see in a manual export. Note: It take a bit longer for your Keynote files to be ready after upload but we are working to improve quality.
Wonderful :-)
Does this mean the Exporting_Keynote_01.pfd offered above is obsolete?