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Add-ins
Macromedia Breeze
reviewed by Geetesh Bajaj, May 24th 2003
Introduction
Some History And More
Breeze Presentation and Breeze Training
Requirements
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Introduction
I recently did an article on PowerPoint repurposing for Presentations magazine
- the thought behind the article was that millions of PowerPoint presentations
cannot be repurposed because people are not very aware of solutions that allow
one to take existing PowerPoint content further.
Breeze is one such solution - rather it is a solution
that creates Flash based rich media content from your PowerPoint presentations.
Such rich media content can be delivered online to audiences along with several
niceties like password protection, reporting, search, quizzes, etc. All put
together, Breeze provides an easy and elegant solution to quickly inform,
educate and train anyone - be it your partner, colleague, client, customer
or student. Let's now look at Breeze from a more enhanced point of view.
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Some History And More
In a previous life, Breeze was called Presedia Producer.
Sometime in 2001, I did a full page review on Presedia - I wanted to replace
that review with the Breeze review since it's essentially the same product
- but there have been so many improvements since then and I thought the Presedia
review might be of archival interest to some of you. Look
here...
I also would like to thank the folks at Macromedia,
especially Aaron Wessels, Eric Vidal and Keith Kitani (in alphabetical order)
for helping me with this review - thank you so much.
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Breeze Presentation and Breeze Training
Breeze comes in two versions - Breeze Presentation and
Breeze Training. Is one a subset of the other?
Breeze Presentation is the basic platform that provides
many essential features that many users would require. Breeze Training is
a component within the platform, but has to be purchased separately. As Eric
puts it across - "..the customer has to buy the platform before purchasing
the Training module.."
We'll first look at Breeze Presentation - later on this
page, we'll look at additional capabilities available within Breeze Training.
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Requirements
To create Breeze content, you'll need either PowerPoint
97 or higher on a system that's based on Windows 98 or higher. The Breeze
add-in for PowerPoint comprises the desktop component of Breeze installed
on your system - the rest of the solution is server based. On your system,
you'll require a microphone and sound card to record narrations and an active
net connection to upload content.
To view Breeze content, you need a browser on any OS
that can play Flash 4 content - this includes almost all Windows, Macintosh
and Linux systems.
You'll find more info about Breeze at the Macromedia
site:
Macromedia
Breeze
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