A behind the scenes look at how I create Apple Keynote decks [MASTERCLASS]

[@learningtovlog]

Definately stealing like an artist. The best presentation deck I’ve ever seen. Thank u a million. Will refer people back here once they ask abt my deck.

[@michaelnewnham7870]

Just. Fan. Tastic. Every minute of this was pure gold. Especially all of the effort you put in upfront, before you ever even open Keynote. Thank you, Stephen. Great video

[@StephenGates]

Thanks so much and glad it helped. Been a life long believer that great design is a visual expression of great thinking so you can never skip that first step.

[@angelagsanchez]

All of these Keynote videos are fantastic. Thank you!

[@StephenGates]

Glad you like them!

[@MinhajMalik]

This is amazing. I got a crucial presentation coming up in a few weeks, going to put these ideas to work.

[@bozhidarmihaylov]

Thx, it is a pleasure to be in your company :) I’ll try Mila later. ..Was doing All aspects in Keynote. Be Good 😊

[@laskowska0]

Thanks for the great Keynote tutorial! As someone who uses Keynote exclusively on an iPad Pro and just connected it to a Windows computer, I would love to see a tutorial on how to use Keynote on both of these platforms. It would be so helpful! Keep up the great work!

[@RebeccaLMorgan]

Love, love, love this. I've been using Keynote for many years and didn't know a few of these transition options! Please keep making these.

[@premiumturkish]

Your work requires imagination. This is beyond anything I’ve seen so far. Excellent!

[@srinipeyyalamitta8613]

Awesome deck Stephen! So much useful stuff delivered in such a short time. One of the most important things to note apart from the preparation of relevant content is the ability to think creatively about elements involved in visually communicating the content. Your deck is a great example of how those different elements are coming together beautifully making a real impact!

[@StephenGates]

Thanks so much.

[@Beyond90Seconds]

Very well explained and excellent information. Thank you, Stephen.

[@iml1945]

Outstanding ideas. The video is worth watching over and over catch all the content.

[@StephenGates]

Thanks so much.

[@kellyjohnson6292]

Terrific examples and explanations of why you chose each. “Helps carry you from one slide the the next”. I’m using your tips to create a presentation and this is helping out tremendously, thank you! 😁

[@bryanvanmaalsen2697]

Wow man! This is some jaw dropping animation and you make it look so simple to create. Design is fantastic. Very nice font you used there. Thank you so much for sharing this. You got me more excited now to get everything out of Keynote 👍🏾👍🏾🔥🔥

[@lauriedmills7581]

Excellent teaching - thank you so much 😊

[@bradleybanker4427]

excellent tutorial and advice - it's very helpful

[@soundscrunchy]

stephen, thnx so much for doing this. it’s so useful to hear more about the process and the behind-the-scenes that go into crafting a good deck. great work!

[@StephenGates]

Happy to help.

[@timileyinolaifa]

Thanks for sharing this with us. Excellent!

[@StephenGates]

Thanks so much.

[@dechevers]

This is incredibly creative and useful. Thank you very much The Crazy One

[@StephenGates]

Glad you like it!

[@thorgeberger8285]

Gorgeous! Learned a lot! Thanks and keep up your great work!

[@StephenGates]

Thanks so much!

[@anythingtechno]

Awesome! thanks you for sharing your though and idea.

[@koshinryudojo-iaidojodosab875]

Really impressive !!!!

[@marcelocalamita8968]

Thank you for the insights! Simply amazing!

[@StephenGates]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@arslankara6034]

Thank you for sharing your knowledge

[@josephgillespie2964]

Getting into content creation and instructional design and your process of explaining things is top notch. Thank you!

[@StephenGates]

Thanks so much

[@bgwilly16]

Stephen!!! And another one! Next level preparation! I love it! I appreciate the plug-in for Milanote. I'm already using to plan an upcoming workshop!

[@StephenGates]

Thanks so much. Enjoy Milanote and good luck with the workshop.

[@neilltyler7419]

Great video really enjoyed it and wonderful ideas and organization.

[@QDWorld-Apps]

It’s really amazing what you can do with keynote … Thanks a lot

[@joemahma3457]

Really great info, I just subscribed; thank you 👍

[@narendrasudrik5073]

Well structured explanation. Understood and liked the importance of the 'content' and organised way of doing the same. Thanks very much Stephen !

[@StephenGates]

Glad it was helpful!

[@sl7.success]

Super presentations! Thanks a lot!

[@patriciocortes707]

just fantastic, great tips, Muchas Gracias!!!

[@StephenGates]

Hope is helped!

[@InternationalCoachingInstitute]

Txs for sharing... very visual presentation... I also like the way you use colors to differentiate each section!! Greetings from Panama!!

[@StephenGates]

Thanks so much and hope all is well in Panama!

[@duncandavies1966]

Great information - what a fantastic keynote design.

[@StephenGates]

Thanks so much.

[@spidgeb3292]

Excellent.

[@WolfgangSchwanzer]

Hi Stephen! Great videos! Thank you for that. How about using sound effects in Keynote? Do you have some recommendations?

[@SN-kb1dl]

Total awesomeness!!! :D

[@StephenGates]

Thank you!

[@thabetalhroob3845]

You are a great person, thanks to your parents and to your family that we have you.

[@StephenGates]

You are so kind

[@thecorporategirlplanner]

This is soooo greatly appreciated!!!

[@StephenGates]

Glad it was helpful

[@amralifts]

Just discovered your channel. I guess the name of the channel comes from Steve Jobs' speech where he said, "Here's to the crazy ones". Well using 'Gates' as the last name makes it even more juicy. if you know what i mean.

[@panugantiratnachary3400]

Excellent presentation 👏👏

[@StephenGates]

Thanks a lot

[@datascienceharp]

I've been binge watching and rewatching your videos @Stephen Gates - The Crazy One! Thank you so much for the effort that goes into this. I'm wondering if you think there's such a thing as using too much iconography? I just got the noun pro sub and I'm using icons on ever slide, whats your take on that?

[@Yasmin-bj4zx]

Your tutorials are absolutely great! Thank you so much I really appreciate your work and efforts. Can you make a tutorial on how to build more than one transaction in several slides and items pleeeaaase?

[@StephenGates]

Happy to help but I don't understand what you mean by 'more than one transaction in several slides and items'.

[@BigRockNor]

Excellent!

[@StephenGates]

Glad you liked it!

[@alexshik2601]

Hello, Stephen! it's awesome!!!

[@StephenGates]

Thanks so much!

[@timothyerukan786]

Amazing, I just bought my first MacBook after researching on keynote because I want to create content that captivates student interest and improve my instructional skills . I appreciate the effort you put in what you do. Where do we show our support for this meritorious cause?

[@StephenGates]

Thanks so much. At some point I may do a Patreon or something like for people who want to support the channel but right now knowing it is helping people is payment enough.

[@bereshyitbara7586]

Milanote you mentioned is great.

[@StephenGates]

Thanks.

[@frwhygieneberatunggmbh3046]

hi, how can I use a highlighter or the mouse to point during the recording of a keynote presentation? Thanks for your help, I hope I expressed myself clearly!

[@StephenGates]

I use the Pro Mouse app for my Mac which works great and you can get in the Mac App Store..

[@albertobarbavara3841]

it was great, I have one question tho: which font did you use for the title? I am a huge fan of how your decks look...

[@shyamgurunath5876]

Hey Stephen, another awesome masterclass.Thanks man. Q: I was using prezi before keynote, the transition in prezi looks great, can u make a masterclass of prezi like presentation in keynote?& glad if u can do a tutorial on pages!!!

[@StephenGates]

Haven't used Prezi in a while but am sure I can pull that together on that. Sadly I don't use Pages as I opt for InDesign instead so won't be able to shed much light on that.

[@SuzyQQQQQQQ]

I saw someone who added a bunch of hyperlinks to shapes (from say the roadmap slide to the slide the content was on and back again) to make Keynote act like Prezi.

[@punknugget561]

Stephen AMAZING TRAING VID! Would you have the source file for this particular Decks Keynote Presentation, like you provided with the Timer, iPhone and Agenda Keynote files? Let me know what you can please. Having that Keynote Decks file would be very helpful for me to be able look through each slide and pick apart to fully understand how those animations were done so I can recreate them differently on my own with my own background style and icons. Thank you for whatever you can do. Again, TREMENDOUS VIDEO! Thank you!!!

[@StephenGates]

This particular deck has a lot of content I have built up over a lot of years so I am not able to share it in the form I showed in the video but your point is a good one. Let me work on breaking it into parts I can post to help.

[@punknugget561]

@@StephenGates Please - That would be awesome! I Thank you! look forward to seeing it very soon!

[@punknugget561]

I know you're super busy, just following up to find out if you were to break up samples of your work to provide here in your training video. Again, anything that you can do would be greatly appreciated. I've learned SOOOOO much from you already. Looking forward to learning more from your future training vids. Thank you!

[@punknugget561]

Hi Stephen, Just following up again to find out what you were able to do by breaking up that Keynote presentation it into parts? By the way, I've been all over KZbin and there is only one other person doing what you're doing (teaching Keynote). I really appreciate you doing this!

[@SpiritualAtheist]

What is a deck? I assume it’s analogous to a deck of cards where each slide is like a card and the totality of the slides in the presentation is the deck? Is that right?

[@SandyManuel]

Once again really insightful and helpful Particularly content / Milanote foundation - I’ve done the content on post it’s so Milanote looks a life saver :-) Q) have you considered Prezi video; with the ability to zoom in/out to give better context and relationship mapping. Curious to your thoughts as I consider keynote for ‘storytelling’ Thanks again 👍🏽😊

[@StephenGates]

Thanks so much. Glad it was helpful and I want to try to demystify as much of the process as possible. Anything you want to see on the channel please let me know!

[@SandyManuel]

@@StephenGates if possible, would love to see 1) more templates on milanote from story structure to production of material, managing teams etc 2) key components of a good story, again almost like a template of 'story beats' Rationale is i have an over abundance of content, restructuring it in a compelling narrative is taking the most time, and your insights on what works for you would be very helpful :-)

[@StephenGates]

@@SandyManuel Got it. Let me think about the best way to to tackle that but will start to work on it.

[@SandyManuel]

@@StephenGates conscious this is a one way conversation currently please feel free to reach out if i can be of service in return. I've advised the innovation teams of Adidas, burberry and now run a venture studio and academy to help young people build problem solving skills so if i can equally be of service to you , don't be shy to say hello :-) [e-mail]

[@jeng9364]

Q - how did you export the information from Milanote to keynote? You skipped that part. Do you just copy/paste or what?

[@mohammedabdelgawad4176]

what font do you use ?

[@frwhygieneberatunggmbh3046]

Hi, a lot of stuff but great! Thank you

[@StephenGates]

Thanks so much.

[@terryatkins]

The deck you created is amazing. I’ve thought I’ve done some complicated slides which have great animation, but your’s is just on a different level, your ideas to transition from one slide to an other is on point. Going to have to try and come up with ways to achieve those in my own deck. Thanks

[@StephenGates]

Thanks so much and glad it helped.

[@ikwilgroterdenken]

Just know you but seems to make sense what you say