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Troublesome Powerpoint: when things don't convert

If you're administering a Breeze Presentation server, you'll sometimes find troublesome Breezo's that won't convert. Erich Peters from AVHQ has a great little Powerpoint presentation, pre-flight checklist and some advice on where to look in the logs.

Slide Masters with Breeze Presentations

The master slide is effectively made into a separate SWF and loaded as a background. Erich from AVHQ has some quick advice on getting the most out of slide masters in your Breezo.

Video Embedding Tips for Breeze Presentation

Getting video embedded inside Breeze Presentations can be a great feature add for your Breezo's. Erich Peters of AVHQ has passed on a few tips worth sharing.

Flash Paper for Breeze

The latest update to Contribute comes with a new Flash Paper player that works within Breeze: Macromedia Contribute Updater. The old Flash Paper player had disastrous results.

Breeze System Status

If you're having problems accessing your online Breeze account (ie. you are using the hosted solution) -- you may want to check this page to see if the server farm is experiencing any difficulties, is in a maintenance window or...

Importing Audio: A Short Review

Add existing audio to your PowerPoint presentations. Runs through importing audio and resynching against slides. The presentation isshort but gives you plenty to go on for working with pre-existing audio files, both single long audio imports and slide by slide...

Creating and Publishing a Presentation

Get started with Macromedia Breeze using this tutorial. Basic content author introduction to producing and publishing Breeze content through Powerpoint. http://breeze.training.breezecentral.com/p31785932/ Speaker: Kimberley Roelands, Macromedia

Setting Up Users, Groups, and Permissions

This presentation will guide you through creating a new user, creating a new group, setting content and course permissions, and more. http://breeze.training.breezecentral.com/p45363023/

Macromedia Breeze Overview

Marketing run through of the product platform, its modules and the offering as a whole. Nice use of Flash video screen captures to show user activity, and application simulation. http://www.macromedia.com/software/breeze/overview/

Flash Integration with Breeze Solutions

You can only insert a SWF (compiled Flash output) - you cannot insert an FLV (Flash Video) or FLA (Flash Source Code). You can import video files (AVI, DV, etc.) into Flash MX or Sorenson Squeeze to generate a SWF...