Now let’s add the big “GROW” text at the top of the video. To fade out the background image, set its Opacity to 30%.
This gives the image a 30% opacity, which fades it out nicely: Now, double-click the 100% number box next to Opacity at the bottom of the Format panel. First, click the Format button in the top-right corner of the app (if it’s not already selected), then click the Style tab below the Format button. But if we put our text on top of it at the moment, we’d hardly be able to read it! So let’s fade the image out a bit. Our background image is vibrant and super-fun. Position and resize the background image so it fills the whole slide. Then drag the tiny square in the image’s bottom-right corner to stretch the image until it fills the whole frame.
To add the background image to your presentation, drag it from the Finder into the Keynote window. It’ll appear on top of the white background: Follow these steps:įind your downloaded image file in the Finder. Now you have a shiny new Keynote document, it’s time to add some stuff to it!įirst we’ll add the background image to the slide. It’s a good idea to keep saving your file as you work through the steps in this tutorial to make sure you don’t lose anything! Just choose File > Save every time you want to save your changes. Give the file a name, such as “Video Intro”, and click Save. Looking good! Now save your new Keynote file by choosing File > Save. Repeat for the bottom text box:ĭelete the two default text boxes by clicking them and pressing Delete. When creating your intro presentation in Keynote, choose the Wide White theme.Ĭlick the top “Double-click to edit” text box once to select it, then press the Delete key on your keyboard to delete the text box. Click the Choose button to create your new presentation: Click the Wide button at the top of the “Choose a Theme” window, then click the White theme. Now you’ve got all the tools you need to make your intro, so let’s start making! Follow these steps to set up your new Keynote document:Ĭhoose File > New.
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Download your track and save it to your Mac.
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Another great place is Music for Makers, which sends you one free music track each week (you don’t even need to include a credit!). For this tutorial I used Jazzy Frenchy from Bensound. There’s plenty of royalty-free music out there - some free, some paid. Again, you’ll find this file in the tutorial download.įor more impact, you’ll want to set your intro to some music. Download the highest-resolution image you can and save it somewhere on your Mac. For this tutorial, I used this leaves image from Pixabay. There are tons of great places to get free images that you can use for your intro. You can download them from Google, and they’re also included in the download that goes with this tutorial. (You’ll need to restart Keynote for the fonts to show up.) The Google fonts that I use in this tutorial are Philosopher and Muli.
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Then click the Install Font button in Font Book to add the fonts to your Mac. Download them, unzip them, and open them all in Font Book on your Mac. If you don’t have any installed that you like, you can buy some from a site like MyFonts or find free ones from Google Fonts. If not, you’ll want a couple of nice fun fonts that go well together to use in your intro. It’s best to use the fonts for your business branding, if you have any. Keynote is about 20 bucks and iMovie is about 15 (US dollars). If you don’t already have them for your Mac, you’ll need to pony up and buy them from the App Store. Right, to make your intro, you’ll need to get a few things in place first: Download Tutorial Files Set everything up