how to record presentation in keynote

Keynote User Guide for Mac

• What’s new in Keynote 14.2
• Intro to Keynote
• Intro to images, charts, and other objects
• Create a presentation
• Choose how to navigate your presentation
• Open or close a presentation
• Save and name a presentation
• Find a presentation
• Print a presentation
• Undo or redo changes
• Show or hide sidebars
• Quick navigation
• Change the working view
• Expand and zoom your workspace
• Customize the Keynote toolbar
• Change Keynote settings on Mac
• Touch Bar for Keynote
• Create a presentation using VoiceOver
• Add or delete slides
• Add and view presenter notes
• Reorder slides
• Group or ungroup slides
• Skip or unskip a slide
• Change the slide size
• Change a slide background
• Add a border around a slide
• Show or hide text placeholders
• Show or hide slide numbers
• Apply a slide layout
• Add and edit slide layouts
• Change a theme
• Add an image
• Add an image gallery
• Edit an image
• Add and edit a shape
• Combine or break apart shapes
• Draw a shape
• Save a shape to the shapes library
• Add and align text inside a shape
• Add 3D objects
• Add lines and arrows
• Animate, share, or save drawings
• Add video and audio

Record audio

• Edit video and audio
• Add live video
• Set movie and image formats
• Position and align objects
• Use alignment guides
• Place objects inside a text box or shape
• Layer, group, and lock objects
• Change object transparency
• Fill shapes and text boxes with color or an image
• Add a border to an object
• Add a caption or title
• Add a reflection or shadow
• Use object styles
• Resize, rotate, and flip objects
• Move and edit objects using the object list
• Add linked objects to make your presentation interactive
• Select text
• Copy and paste text
• Use dictation to enter text
• Use accents and special characters
• Format a presentation for another language
• Use phonetic guides
• Use bidirectional text
• Use vertical text
• Change the font or font size
• Add bold, italic, underline, or strikethrough to text
• Change the color of text
• Change text capitalization
• Add a shadow or outline to text
• Intro to paragraph styles
• Apply a paragraph style
• Create, rename, or delete paragraph styles
• Update or revert a paragraph style
• Use a keyboard shortcut to apply a style
• Adjust character spacing
• Add drop caps
• Raise and lower characters and text
• Format fractions automatically
• Create and use character styles
• Format dashes and quotation marks
• Format Chinese, Japanese, or Korean text
• Set tab stops
• Format text into columns
• Adjust line spacing
• Format lists
• Add a highlight effect to text
• Add mathematical equations
• Add borders and rules (lines) to separate text
• Add or delete a table
• Select tables, cells, rows, and columns
• Add or remove rows and columns
• Move rows and columns
• Resize rows and columns
• Merge or unmerge cells
• Change the look of table text
• Show, hide, or edit a table title
• Change table gridlines and colors
• Use table styles
• Resize, move, or lock a table
• Add and edit cell content
• Format dates, currency, and more
• Create a custom cell format
• Highlight cells conditionally
• Format tables for bidirectional text
• Alphabetize or sort table data
• Calculate values using data in table cells
• Use the Formulas and Functions Help
• Add or delete a chart
• Change a chart from one type to another
• Modify chart data
• Move, resize, and rotate a chart
• Change the look of data series
• Add a legend, gridlines, and other markings
• Change the look of chart text and labels
• Add a chart border and background
• Use chart styles
• Animate objects onto and off a slide
• Animate objects on a slide
• Change build order and timing
• Add transitions
• Present on your Mac
• Present on a separate display
• Present during a FaceTime call
• Use a remote
• Make a presentation advance automatically
• Require a password to exit a presentation
• Play a slideshow with multiple presenters
• Rehearse on your Mac
• Record presentations
• Check spelling
• Look up words
• Find and replace text
• Replace text automatically
• Set author name and comment color
• Highlight text
• Add and print comments
• Send a presentation
• Intro to collaboration
• Invite others to collaborate
• Collaborate on a shared presentation
• See the latest activity in a shared presentation
• Change a shared presentation’s settings
• Stop sharing a presentation
• Shared folders and collaboration
• Use Box to collaborate
• Create an animated GIF
• Post your presentation in a blog
• Use iCloud Drive with Keynote
• Export to PowerPoint or another file format
• Reduce the presentation file size
• Save a large presentation as a package file
• Restore an earlier version of a presentation
• Move a presentation
• Delete a presentation
• Password-protect a presentation
• Lock a presentation
• Create and manage custom themes
• Transfer files with AirDrop
• Transfer presentations with Handoff
• Transfer presentations with the Finder
• Keyboard shortcuts
• Keyboard shortcut symbols

Record audio in Keynote on Mac

You can record audio as a voiceover narrative or soundtrack for an individual slide or for your entire presentation. A voiceover narration is a synchronized recording of yourself talking about each slide, which is especially useful when your presentation plays unattended in a kiosk setting.

To learn how to add an existing video and audio file to a slide or presentation, see Add video and audio in Keynote on Mac .

Note: After you record, you can insert the recording wherever you want in the presentation.

To preview your recording, click Preview.

To play from a specific point, position your pointer over the recording, swipe left or right to position the black line (or drag the scroll bar), then click Preview.

To stop the audio, click Pause.

To edit your recording, click Edit, then do any of the following:

When you’re done editing, click Done.

Recorded audio appears as an object on the slide when you’re editing the presentation, but it isn’t visible when you present.

You can also share your recording as an audio file. Control-click the recording on the slide, choose Share Recording, then choose a method to send it.

To learn more about timing video and audio in your presentation, see Edit video and audio in Keynote on Mac .

Record a voiceover narration

To record a voiceover narration, you advance through the presentation at your natural speed as you talk. As you advance through each slide or build, your voice and timing are recorded and preserved for playback.

Click to select the slide where you want the recording to start.

Click Record in the sidebar.

The recording window appears.

The timer counts down from 3 before recording begins.

Speak clearly into the microphone to begin your narration.

To advance to the next slide, click the slide in the recording window, or press the Right Arrow key on your keyboard.

Press Esc to save the recording and exit the presentation.

To listen to your narration, play your slides.

You can set Keynote to optimize the format and quality of movies and images that you add to presentations.

Record Video Presentations With You In Them Using Keynote

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Comments: 17 Responses to “Record Video Presentations With You In Them Using Keynote”

....and I thought _ I _was a master of Keynote. Turns out, I'm an amateur compared to Gary. Thanks to MacMost for showing me the MOST Mac-useful tip about recording an explainer video, using Keynote. I can almost smell the money this is going to make me. :-) Thanks, Gary! You've mastered video produced in Keynote.

Thanks bunches

Brilliant - just what I need. Thanks Gary. Amazing.

Great insight Gary, many thanks. I have recently moved all the way up from Mojave-then Monterey up to Sonoma, and I had missed this in the corresponding Keynote updates. Thank you very much!

Excellent presentation - very helpful and provides for a new dimension for Keynote work. What is your recommendation on recording the whole presentation or add the recording on a slide by slide basis. You said you could replace some of the recording - how do you do that?

Bill: In the recording interface you can go back to a point and start recording from there, leaving the previous slides the same. Experiment with the recording interface to get the hang of it.

Thank you for a very simple yet useful way to use my Mac for great looking presentations. Your presentations are straightforward and include well thought out ways to show how to do things simply yet professionally. I also appreciate being able to replay them at any time to refresh and help along where things moved quickly. This is a wonderful help for both teachers and students.

Excellent! Just what I needed for some tutoring I do.

Great job as always. what do you use for the green screen background and green chair?

Paul: Do you mean where did I get them? I don’t remember brands or anything, but probably just bought from Amazon. Tons of options there.

Hello Garry, why I don't see "Background" check box? I'm using OS Big Sur. Thank you.

Rami: Because you are using an older version of macOS.

This is fabulous! Now I don't need to spend money on expensive 3rd party software to make explainer videos. Thanks so much.

Gary - You are the top of the pops. I have dreamed of doing this. Making a movie on a topic and putting it on YouTube. It is all there if you know how to do it.

Another great, useful video.

Gary, Thank you for this super useful tutorial.

This is so so helpful, thank you!

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Recording keynote presentation: how to add video in addition to audio

Keynote's new "record presentation" is terrific, especially now with conferences asking for pre-recorded talks. I like the following features:

• It lets you see the "presenter view" with the next slide beside the current slide while recording.
• It allows incremental recording: you can easily stop the recording, rewind, and re-record the last bit.
• It lets you edit the slides and keep the audio: for example, if you find a typo in the first slide, you don't need to record the whole thing again, just correct the typo and re-create the movie of the recording.
• It's fast, doesn't require wifi, etc.

The only missing feature is that this is only audio and not video: I would like the movie of my presentation to have a small box showing me talking like you see on zoom. It would be great if I could use my laptop's webcam to add this. Is it possible?

Posted on Jan 6, 2021 2:16 AM

Posted on Jan 6, 2021 3:53 AM

There is no inbuilt tool to do this in Keynote, however Quicktime is used to do this.

• Open Quicktime application
• File > New Movie Recording
• click on the red record button
• press black stop button when finished
• close and save

Drag the movie file onto a slide then size and position, to show on a single slide, or drag onto the Slide Master ( View > Master Slide ) to show over the complete presentation.

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