You can create 3D animated charts on your
Mac using Keynote.
Now you may think of charts being more of
a thing in Numbers but Keynote is where all
the presentations stuff goes on.
So an animated effect is going to be more
natural in Keynote.
So this is where you do it.
I'm in Keynote here.
I have a new document and I click on Chart
and I can insert a chart.
Now I talked before on how to animate 2D charts
but let's look at 3D charts.
We'll select a basic chart here and we'll
just go with the default data.
If you want to edit the chart data you click
on that big button there and you can edit
it.
Now how can you animate this?
Well, first let's get it in a position like
we want.
So I'll move it here on the screen around.
If I grab the circle in here I can drag it
in 3D space.
I can still grab the ends here and move it
around.
So once we've got that all squared away, this
is how we want it to finish, then we'll go
to Animate and we can Build In or Build Out.
Let's do just Build In effect.
They're the same it's just that they're the
opposite.
So let's Add an Effect.
In addition to basic appearance animations
we've got these 3D chart effect.
They only appear when you are selecting a
3D chart.
So you won't see them normally.
So we'll select Crane or we can hit simply
Preview to see a preview of it.
That's what it looks like.
That's the Crane effect, that's the Grow effect,
Rotate and you can combine Rotate and Grow,
and you can do Y Axis which has it coming
into the screen.
I like that one.
Now when you select one you have options.
You can change the duration so you can slow
it down.
I can hit Preview to check it out.
I can change the rotation angles.
So this will get me to my starting rotation
angle.
So I'll put it negative 180 and I Preview
and you can see now how much more it spins
around.
Positive 180 it's going to come the other
way.
I can also do Delivery.
Whether it's all at once or Cascade.
So let's try it with Cascade and you can see
how they each appear one by one as the rotation
is going on.
So let's change to another effect.
Let's say instead of Crane let's go to Grow.
Then you can see I can add the Delivery and
now I can actually do a bunch of different
things in the Delivery, more so than before.
I've got the background to appear first for
instance and then the chart.
So you can do Elements in Series, Elements
in Set, or just all at once.
You can change the duration as well.
Let's go and take a look at Rotate there.
Let's do it as a Z Axis one.
So each one has just a little bit different
options here.
Now, not only that, you've got different options
depending upon the type of chart.
So let's delete this chart and let's go to
a pie chart.
A pie chart here you can similarly arrange
how you want it to be.
Put it where you want.
Then we can Add an Effect.
You've got the same ones here like Crane,
and Grow, Rotate, Rotate and Grow, and Z Axis
like that.
But you also have Radial.
Radial is only for the pie chart.
That's how the Radial one works.
So we can select that one and we can change
Delivery to Cascade here.
By Wedge so each one individually.
Then you can try some of the other ones as
well.
So 3D Grow works really well with a pie chart
like that.
So you can adjust these.
Adjust the Duration and do it for different
types of charts.
You get a similar set here as you do for the
bar charts.
Crane, Grow, Rotate, Rotate and Grow, and
Z Axis.
Now you can also export the animation and
use it in a video.
So to do that I'm going to go to the Document
here and I'm going to change the size to wide
screen so it works better in a video.
Then I'm going to Export To, I'm just going
to choose Movie.
Just use the default settings here.
Actually I'll go to 1080 for a nicer looking
video.
I'll Export and it'll export as a video file
that I can then bring into iMovie or Final
Cut or Premier or anything.
So I'll Hide that there and here is my video.
You can see it's eight seconds long so I could
probably trim a little bit off the front and
back here but I do get my animation in there.
What would be even better is if I could have
it be transparent and then I could use it
in a video more effectively.
So what I want to do is click on the background
and then go to Format and then with the background
selected there I can see the background colors
so I want to change it to No Fill.
Then when I export I want to export as movie,
select 1080, but then go and select Custom.
Actually then you have to fill this in anyway
even though you selected 1080 before, so select
Custom size here and select Apple ProRes 4444
and that will allow you to export a transparent
version.
That's really handy.
You can see it's transparent here if I click
on it and I Preview you can see the transparent
background.
Then I could go to say iMovie here and in
iMovie I've just got a background image and
I can bring this video into iMovie and I put
it on top here.
You can see how it's transparent.
So it's over the video behind it.
So that's kind of nice too.
Lots you can do here using these 3D animated
charts.
