Every trainer knows not to rely on technology working correctly, so I decided to include a couple of YouTube videos in a presentation I’m creating, not just link to them.
The problem was that Keynote.app doesn’t seem to respond to the .flv files you end up with after downloading a YouTube video. When I dragged the movie into a slide, nothing happened.
A bit of Googling and something called Perian soon sorted things out — Convert YouTube Videos for Your iPod Apple TV and iPhone:
Here’s a step-by-step tutorial on how to copy video files off YouTube.com and convert them for iPod Video, Apple TV, iPhone or even just to watch in iTunes. This trick will work on either Mac or PC using Firefox, Safari or Internet Explorer.
I used the download trick I wrote about in Make an offline copy of a YouTube video, installed Perian, opened the file in Quicktime, then exported it as a .mov file. I dragged that file into Keynote, and it played quite happily.
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A small follow-up. Today I’ve been using the methods I describe above to add files downloaded from YouTube to a Keynote presentation. With Perian installed I can just drag the .flv files directly into Keynote, without converting them first.
well, if its me i will use a third party software to help me do this, as i often use aneesoft youtube converter to download and convert the youtube vides to QuickTime formats and it works great
Thanks for the tip. Very helpful.
I am using Wonder share software to download You Tube so that i can play on Keynote but i can’t get them consistently all playing in rotation on my 20 slide presentation, any tips?
Do you mean you have 1 movie per slide and that after you play the movie on slide #1, for example, the movie on slide #2 doesn’t play?
I don’t really understand what the problem is.
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