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Chapter 3: Using the Macromedia Breeze Plug-In for PowerPoint
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If all the information is correct, select Upload. As the new presentation is uploaded, a status bar
shows the upload progress.
Note:
Only uploaded changes are updated.
Preparing audio for importing
Breeze Plug-In for PowerPoint allows you to import external audio for use with your presentation.
The Breeze plug-in has several features that simplify the process of importing, particularly for
users of the audio-editing program Sound Forge. There are two basic methods of preparing audio
for import:
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Using individual audio files for specific presentation slides. To use this method you create
individual audio files for each slide in your presentation. During the import process, you
match the audio file to its corresponding presentation slide. If you choose this method, you can
take advantage of these two helpful features:
File naming
If you number your audio files in a logical, numeric manner (for example, a1,
a2, a3, and so on), the Breeze plug-in speeds the import process by allowing you to select
multiple audio files and automatically assign them to the correct slide.
Animation markers
You can add Sound Forge markers to your audio file to represent
animation timings within the slide. During the import process, Macromedia Breeze Plug-in
automatically matches the Sound Forge markers with mouse-click animations on the
corresponding slide. If you do not use animation markers, you can set the animation timings
using Edit Timings within the Advanced feature of the Breeze menu.
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Using one long audio file for the presentation with Sound Forge markers. If you want to
import one long audio file for your presentation, you should use the following Sound Forge
marker in your audio file to identify slide transitions and animation timings within the audio
file:
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href="javascript:BSSCPopup('Sound_Forge.htm');"
With these markers in the audio file, the Breeze plug-in automatically synchronizes the slides
and animations to the audio file during the import process. There are two methods of naming
Sound Forge markers:
No marker names
The Breeze plug-in automatically handles Sound Forge markers that use
the default naming (for example, time). The Breeze plug-in reads these markers in, and assigns
them sequentially to slide transitions and mouse-click animations as they occur in the
presentation file.
Named markers
The recommended method of using Sound Forge markers is to change the
name of the Sound Forge markers depending on the type of event you are trying to identify.
For slide transitions, use an “s” prefix (for example, s1, s2, s3). For mouse-click animations, use
an “a” prefix within each slide (for example, a1, a2).
When you give use these prefixes, the slide transitions always take precedence. Thus, if you
have an incorrect number of “a” markers, they are discarded or left incomplete—the slide
boundaries are always used.