Export transparent MOV from Apple Keynote

marcel-vossen wrote on 8/17/2016, 6:14 AM
Hi guys,

A client of mine uses a Macbook and keynote to make presentations. We want to export the presentations with a transparent background so I found an older video on youtube of a guy explaining how to do this, so it was possible once:



However, the settings for export that he is showing are not present in the current Keynote version that my client has, does anyone know whats up with this??

We can only choose 1080 or 720 or custom format, and then H264 or 2 other apple formats and the exported movies are M4v ...

Hope someone uses a MAC and has dealt with this before....

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musicvid10 wrote on 8/17/2016, 6:39 AM
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What exactly are your three export format options?
Windows does not support h.264 with alpha.

[EDIT]
Apparently Keynote no longer supports alpha export, so you would have to know you are using a compatible older version.

JohnnyRoy wrote on 8/17/2016, 9:27 AM
The other two formats are:

Apple ProRes 422
Apple ProRes 4444

Apple ProRes 4444 has the ability to carry an Alpha channel so you might want to try that but I don't know if Keynote will use it or not. In the video they were using the Animation codec which is no longer an option.

~jr
marcel-vossen wrote on 8/17/2016, 2:23 PM
Thanks all,

Apparently the Apple ProRes 4444 would be able to do this, but when my client exports that the file is 12 Gb huge, too big to wetransfer, wtf? :(

Any tips for an apple program that can convert that to a normal filesize?

Marcel
JohnnyRoy wrote on 8/17/2016, 9:22 PM
> "Any tips for an apple program that can convert that to a normal filesize?"

You can use Apple Compressor to make a new MOV file using the Animation codec. I'm not sure why Apple doesn't allows this directly from Keynote anymore but that would give you the same file format that the older version of Keynote would have produced.

If they don't have Apple Compressor it is a $49 download in the Apple Store.

~jr
marcel-vossen wrote on 8/18/2016, 5:25 AM
> "Any tips for an apple program that can convert that to a normal filesize?"

You can use Apple Compressor to make a new MOV file using the Animation codec. I'm not sure why Apple doesn't allows this directly from Keynote anymore but that would give you the same file format that the older version of Keynote would have produced.

If they don't have Apple Compressor it is a $49 download in the Apple Store.

~jr

Thanks! I think you've got your reason right there, the 49$ to buy the extra tool ;)