Keynote ’09: Share – The Somewhat Hidden Functionality
On Apple’s Keynote page, they do make quick mention of the new Share menu and how you can quickly share a slide deck with others by email. What they don’t mention and what didn’t seem to get any press is another feature in the Share menu: “Send to [insert iLife app here].” In this submenu, you can also send your slides to YouTube.
When creating a Pages document for my presentation’s handout, I needed copies of individual slides to paste into the document. Using this menu option, I was able to save copies of my slides as images and have them automatically added to my iPhoto library. This made it far easier to add them later as needed. This new capability didn’t come at the expense of the traditional export. You can still export your slides as images the old fashioned way if you so desire. However, with iPhoto’s export options for flickr and Facebook, you’re just a couple clicks away from other places to put your individual slides.
Granted, with the iPhoto export, you are limited to still images. If you added narration and timed transitions, you can export your presentation to YouTube as a movie. Yeah, it does seem kind of odd to choose YouTube given that SlideShare is the place people go for content like this, however, it’s better than nothing. With that said I sure would like to see an option in the next version for “Send To SlideShare.” That may depend on Apple and the SlideShare folks either working together since SlideShare’s API is available free for “non-commercial use” and it’s not maintained by Slideshare itself.
I’ve recently upgraded to iWork ’09 and I’ll be sure to share hidden gems as I find them.
