zoom effect

Zooming can be a very effective tool when creating dot models. It gives the viewer the feeling that you are showing them a secret and it gives you the ability to dig deeper into a concept or issue. For this effect you need a frame of reference other than the dots. In the animation above I used a square.

There are two ways to zoom:

1. Zoom everything else and keep the dots the same size (first zoom)
2. Zoom the dots with everything else (second zoom)

Let me know if you find another way to zoom!

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Comments

[erz]

Seeing as I enjoy your concise tutorials and hope for more neat tricks and shortcuts I would like to offer some advice:

Zooming grouped objects in Keynote is a pain, then again it would be a tad unfair to assume keynote had the ability to scale text along with objects, a scenario where I most often find myself underwhelmed with the results.

If one must zoom into complex structures and emulate a prezi-like presentation style (inkluding hotlinks embedded in the structure) one can design these shapes (including text) in a vector drawing program, such as inkscape and import them as keynote objects via a little tool called svg2key. Pure awesomness and no more fuzzy edges in zooming.

Unfortunately I cannot yet provide an example of such an advanced zoom, but I am working on a presentation right now that I intend to add to my portfolio of keynote-experiments in storytelling.

[erz]

Sorry for the double post: In your example above using an imported keynote object would preserve the curvature of the square and the zooming would look much more like a motion towards the screen rather than a transition.

[jeff monday]

Erz,

This is great advice. Would you mind building a tutorial in English? If you do I will post it to the tips and tricks feed for everyone to learn from? Let me know.

Sometimes I just build a slide (a whole slide per word) then export it as a high quality .jpg and use insta alpha to have it become a keynote object. This is obviously the slow and broken way to do it so thank you for showing me a faster way. Please send it when it is done!