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Extract a video from an Apple Keynote file

The other day, I wanted to extract a video from a Keynote presentation. I have made the video and the keynote file myself, but threw away the screencast that I have put in the keynote file. It is easy to get a picture form a keynote file, control c and controlv are your friend. But you can not copy a video this way.

The solution, easy to do, complicated to find out. You do know that most mac files are in fact "bundles", directories with data and meta data in it? And it is just OSX that is showing you a fancy icon instead of the content? The same is true with keynote files. Complex to find out.

Easy to do:

Find the keynote files "something.key" in your finder
Rename the file from "something.key" to "something.zip"
Right click the something.zip file and extract it, it should make a directory "something"
Doubleclik the directory to find the video file you are looking for, copy it elsewhere
Go one directory higher, delete the folder, rename something.zip to something.key

Oohh apple, why make it so hard?

By bertboerland at 27/12/2012 - 16:48 | Apple | english | Happy | bertboerland's blog