User Guide

8 Introduction: Welcome to Macromedia Breeze Presenter
About Breeze Presenter
Breeze Presenter lets you create sophisticated, high-impact presentations and e-learning content
quickly and easily in three steps: design, edit, and publish.
Designing Breeze Presenter presentations
From within PowerPoint, Breeze Presenter can help you do the following tasks:
• Use an existing PowerPoint presentation as a base for a Breeze Presenter presentation. This can
save you the time and effort creating a new presentation. (See “Creating Breeze Presenter
presentations” on page 14.)
• Perform accurate PowerPoint conversions, including full support for PowerPoint animations.
(See “Using animation, image, and Flash (SWF) files” on page 26.)
• Customize the look and feel of the presentation viewer interface with company logos, colors,
and presenter biographies and photos. (See “Working with themes in presentations”
on page 69.)
Editing Breeze Presenter presentations
Breeze Presenter can help you change presentations to suit your needs in the following ways:
• You can enhance PowerPoint presentations with multimedia. Add multimedia including audio
(such as voice-over narration), quizzes and surveys, or Flash files and Flash video without
leaving PowerPoint. (See “Recording audio” on page 34 and “Creating quizzes and questions”
on page 43.)
• You can import prerecorded audio into a presentation and match the audio to PowerPoint slide
animations. (See “Working with Audio” on page 29.)
Publishing Breeze Presenter presentations
You publish your presentations so that users can view them. Breeze Presenter offers the following
features:
• Breeze Presenter is deeply integrated with all Breeze products including Macromedia Breeze
Training, Macromedia Breeze Events, and Macromedia Breeze Meeting, as well as Macromedia
Captivate, Flash content, and Flash Video (FLV) files. (See “Publishing to a Macromedia
Breeze server” on page 86.)
• You can view presentations in the interactive Breeze Presenter viewer. (See “Viewing a
presentation in a Breeze meeting” on page 93.)
• You can use Breeze Presenter content with learning management systems (LMS). Breeze
Presenter creates SCORM and AICC compliant content. (See “Setting reporting options”
on page 61.)
About Breeze Presenter projects and content
There are many ways you can use Breeze Presenter. If you think creatively about new ways to
work with Breeze, you can then publish even more engaging content using Breeze Presenter.