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Keynote 2 coming?
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Oct 26, 2004, 11:54 PM
 
After watching the special music event Steve did today i think we can asume that Keynote 2 is coming with speacial effects for transitions such as that nice ripple effect he used a few times to transition between the different iPod slides (the same effect seen in Tiger's dashboard). I hope i comes soon. Keynote seems a bit dated already.
     
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Oct 27, 2004, 12:26 AM
 
My guess is we might see it with Tiger. The ripple effect would be done very, very easily with Core Image/Video. I can't wait to see what else they put in there. Should put those PC PowerPoint presentations to shame!
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Oct 27, 2004, 02:36 AM
 
With the ability to export to a slideshow presentation, with easy sync to iPod Photo... presentations on the go
     
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Oct 27, 2004, 11:31 PM
 
I hope so. While Keynote is a pretty good application as-is, there are several key features that are missing (oft discussed in other threads). And its been quite a long time since the last Keynote update.
     
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Oct 28, 2004, 08:22 AM
 
Keynote is a really good program, but unfortunately Powerpoint has caught up in the features that it lacked. Also the included themes etc are much more comprehensive on the microsoft product
     
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Oct 28, 2004, 11:08 AM
 
there definitely were some new Keynote transitions and effects that were in Steve's keynote, and we will seem them in an update. The text tracking coming together was new. The ripple was pretty nasty, and all those other core video/image ones we will hopefully see.

Hopefully, also, is a feature, or an Automator script, that turns slideshows into photos that one can put on their iPod Photo for easy presentation presenting. It would not be hard already to do so, just hit "export as PDF..." and then in Preview export each page of the PDF to a supported image file. Simple!

Instead of having to lug a laptop around, just bring you iPod Photo.

it is sort of funny that Apple is so secretive about their future products and Steve is silently touting it on stage.
     
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Oct 28, 2004, 11:22 AM
 
but keynote is not bloated and slow like powerpoint.
     
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Oct 28, 2004, 07:33 PM
 
Powerpoint has more features, but has gotten so far away from what it was good at doing. It's bloated and feels old. Keynote feels clean and somple (but lacks a few features) I think keynote could be much more then what it actually is.

Keynote is hands down the best at handling heavy graphics.
     
   
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