I recently switched from PowerPoint to Keynote. I have ~50 presentations and together they add up to more than 5000 slides. Each slide has embedded audios it can be anywhere from 3 seconds to 30 seconds long. In PowerPoint I wrote a Macro to insert audios to slide and add transition timer same as audio length.
With Keynote I can read / play the presentations well, audio plays well but all the transition timers are disabled.
If I click auto transition then it sets every slide transition timer to 0.5s which I can change but going through all the slides and setting the timer manually is such a mundane task that I have not inclination of doing it.
Can the transition times for a presentation can be interested with automator or can it be imported from a CSV sort of file. The way I did this in Powerpoint was I created a static array with all slides timer I wanted, later looped through each slide and set the timer. can similar thing can be done in Keynote with applescript
Thanks for your help
Looks like this works, but I'm not totally familiar with the nuances of these settings:
tell application "Keynote"
set ss to slides of document 1
set c to count of ss
set n to 1
repeat until n > c
set transition properties of item n of ss to {transition delay:0.5, automatic transition:false, transition effect:no transition effect, transition duration:0.5}
set n to n + 1
end repeat
end tell
Here is the solution - it worked beautifully. I did not find any glitches.
tell application "Keynote"
set ss to slides of document 1
set c to count of ss
set timerlist to {5, 4, 3, 9, 6}
set n to 1
repeat until n > c
set timer to item n of timerlist
set transition properties of item n of ss to {transition delay:timer, automatic transition:true, transition effect:no transition effect, transition duration:0.5}
set n to n + 1
end repeat
end tell