Keynote tutorial: How to create a Ken Burns Effect

[zinkkrysty]

I've noticed that by doing this in Keynote, the image is kept at the resolution it is first loaded in (that covers the slide). When zooming in with actions, the quality is bad. Is there any workaround?

[MrJochmann]

@zinkkrysty Quite trivial: Import a higher resolution image (check your slide resolution for comparison) and scale it down to fit your canvas. There are limits to how far you can zoom like this though. You may want to look into prezi.com if you'd like to zip around in a huge image. Or you import a quicktime movie of the zoom action if you need a spectacular scaling animation in Keynote.

[zinkkrysty]

@MrJochmann I have already done that, but when scaling it down in the editing window, and then scaling it up using actions, the quality is low because Keynote is scaling up the version that was already scaled down, not the high-res imported pic... Anyway, I have found a workaround - using magic move instead of actions to zoom in, or fading in the hi-res version after the animation has ended.