Creating path animations with Keynote
You can already animate images and video in iMovie with keyframes, so why would you want to do this in Keynote? Well, animation in Keynote has three key advantages over iMovie, and if any of them are crucial to your project, you’ll want to use Keynote instead:
- You can export animations with transparent backgrounds
- You can animate multiple objects at once
- You can rotate objects to a 1-degree accuracy and rotate relative to a path
We’ve already seen the advantages that exporting with transparency can give us when it comes to titles. Let’s explore the other advantages by animating a little scene of a countryside road. The following image has been created entirely in Keynote, and the file is available in Chapter 7: Keynote Car Animation in the book resources. There you can open the file see the color and gradient tweaks, stock shapes, and use of the Keynote Pen tool that helped create it. But at the moment...
