Filed under: How-tos , Tips and tricks , Odds and ends You can create some wonderful visual effects with Keynote ‘09 ; good enough, in some cases, to make experienced After Effects artists say “You did that in Keynote?!,” which is always very satisfying. Despite Keynote’s power for presentations, there are a few things that it doesn’t do natively — play video during a transition, for instance. Fortunately, some of these tricks can be accomplished by a long-honored approach known as “faking it.” If you have a video playing in the background of a slide while you trigger a dissolve transition to the next slide, ordinarily you’ll see a distracting freeze of the video playback as the transition effect runs. The way around this, usable for many (not all) slide transitions, is to pull the transition forward into the slide with the video

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