Animation in Breeze

We use a lot of basic PowerPoint animation in our slides, for
some reason when we publish the course to breeze and sync the
animation it is not working correctly. it is either all coming in
at one time on a page or is leaving to fast. we are using Breeze
5.0 sp2.

Maybe you could provide just a little more info? When you say
"a lot" do you mean every element on the page has a custom
animation? Are they set to happen "on mouse click" or "after
previous" or maybe "with previous"? Do the animations work properly
when you syncronize animations?

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Thanks.

Phatty5,
One potential workaround is to take that gif and rebuild it
in flash; create the animation there and save it out as a swf. Then
reimport back into PowerPoint.
Some other workarounds include:
1. if you have a recent version of Photoshop/Image Ready
(CS/CS2), you can save animated gifs to swf file formats simply by
exporting to Flash from within Image Ready. The same pretty much
goes for Illustrator as well.
2. There are a number of tools available online that can
convert gifs to swf format. A quick search in google came up with a
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Flash animations get faster in breeze then in the original...

Can anyone explain me why the flash animation inserted in
power point and published with breeze presenter get more fast then
the original file?

VH,
The problem you're experiencing is most likely due to the fps
setting of your flash movies. In Breeze the default playback is
30fps. What you'll need to do is adjust your fps setting in flash
to 30fps as well.
Rob

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I have a Power Point with animated GIF's in it that work fine
until I publish it using presenter.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

Animated GIFs do not appear to be supported in Breeze. The
help guide mentions using either animated SWFs or the animations
built in to PowerPoint, but not animated GIFs.
You might try to open the GIF in Fireworks or Photoshop and
then save it as an SWF although you may have to adjust the timing
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This is one of those cases where TechSupport believes a
work-around is fine to something I would consider a bug. Took me a
while to find the solution so I'd like to share with everyone my
problem/solution.
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slide that uses custom animation; in this case I've drawn circles
and squares against an image to highlight a point. The animation is
"on click" specific per Breeze. One of those animations creaps in
slowly.
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is shared in a Meeting, in my opinion all sound should be
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have found that during the building of the screen (using Next/Right
Arrow), the "sound behind the animation" comes through. Not
terribly anoying for fast entrances, etc., but when something
creaps in, you can have a lengthy audio playback during that time.
IMHO, this shouldn't happen.
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the .ppc file, reload into PowerPoint, accept the load without
audio and republish. Then in the meeting room simply select that
renamed file. Major drawback on this point: I've got a file upload
limit on my account. I've just doubled the space required per file.
My solution was to use the Pod Options on the share, select
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However, I still think the audio snippets behind the
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Thanks for the information. I tried to just animate the aircraft and while the artifact issue was solved, the animation simply wasn't smooth enough for my liking. I agree the SWF option is the way to go but due to IT restrictions, that software isn't readily available to the end users. I use Preimere Pro too so creating the files would be a breeze but pointless to do so if the file won't launch. I appreciate you both taking the time to not only answer the question but to explain why going the route I was going wasn't the best option. Cheers!
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Flash animations are out of the flash window limit ...

When I place a flash animation in power point using breeze
presenter, and I publish the presentation it is possible to see the
animations that are out of the flash window limit …
What can I do to make the breeze respect the flash limits and
hide the animations outside those limits?
Thanks!

Just out of curiosity....is it possible that you've got
elements in flash that begin OFF the flash stage and then animate
ONTO it?
There was a *funky* artifact of creating flash animations
that played very strangely when imported into Breeze; there was a
tech note about this, but I haven't found it recently. If your
flash animation *must* be 200 x 200, then what I'd try is this:
In flash, create a mask layer and be sure to have all other
layers become masked by it. I realize that without seeing your
animation, that it's probably "easier said than done"... However,
the thing to note here is that by masking the stage in flash (and
thus all the elements animated within it), you'll effectively kill
the visibility of all visual elements that are off the stage.
For what it's worth, I'd be happy to assist if you need
further help. Just drop me a note using the private message
function, or email me at [email protected]
HTH,
Rob

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Does anyone know why the audio animation effects become faint
when mixed in Breeze with the narration audio? It is almost as if
it automatically layers the audio for the narration to take
precedence.

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does take precedence. Presenter is intended to have one audio track
playing.
Jorma@RealEyes

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Breeze Presenter Fehler?

Hallo miteinander,
leider ist das Breeze Forum nicht erreichbar, daher poste ich
meine Nachricht mal bei euch. Ich habe mir soeben den Presenter 6
runtergeladen. Im Handbuch sowie im Quick Guide wird jedes mal die
Möglichkeit aufgeführt, dass man die Präsentationen
auch lokal veröffentlichen kann. Leider wird bei mir immer nur
die Connect Variante angezeigt. Ich verfüge über keinen
Zugang zu einem Breeze Server. Daher möchte ich nur eine
Veröffentlichung lokal vornehmen. Was mach ich falsch bzw was
fehlt mir? Hintergrund der ganzen Aktion ist, dass ich mit dem
Presenter einen Scorm erstellen möchte und diesen dann in das
LMS moodle integrieren will. Vielen Dank schon mal für eure
Reaktionen!

I have not seen any issues after upgrading to 7.0
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7.0 has some additional cool features example capability of
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508 Compliance issue: Subtitling Captivate Slides, esp for Breeze

My organization is designing a software demonstration for the
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pane when publishing from Captivate to Breeze?
In the past, when we've published our PowerPoint
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separate pane opens underneath the presentation. I can't seem to
duplicate this feature in Captivate. The software we're explaining
takes up a great deal of the screen real estate-- placing text
boxes over the simulation would not work. Any ideas or suggestions?
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Hello again Scott
Here's the deal.
1. The workaround I'm about to present was not developed by
me. It was developed by my friend and colleague John Daigle. I just
don't want to take credit that isn't due.
2. This workaround hasn't seemed to work for some folks. Why
isn't clear yet.
So here goes.
Publish your output to a temporary folder. When you publish,
make sure that you have selected Flash Player 7 where you see Flash
Player Version. It is normally the default, so unless you
specifically changed it, you shouldn't need to change it. But it's
critical that this version appear here. Otherwise, the process is
moot.
After you publish, back in the Captivate project, wherever
you have a full motion clip, insert a blank slide immediately
preceding the full motion clip. Configure the Slide timing to match
the full motion clip. Note the name of the full motion clip.
On the new Blank slide, click Insert > Animation... and
browse to that temporary folder you created earlier when you
published. Insert the corresponding full motion clip you should
find there.
Delete the slide with the original full motion clip.
Rinse and repeat until all slides with full motion clips have
been eradicated and you have new slides consisting of the "other"
full motion clips you published.
Now publish again. Again, be sure you choose Flash Player 7.
Assuming this works for you, you should end up with a single
.SWF that is the sum of all the former .SWF files. The only real
exception to this is if you used some of the supplied Flash
Animation. A few of those here and there will still result in
additional .SWF files.
Give that a go and let us know how you fare. As I said
earlier, others have tried this and it failed for them. Which
puzzled me, because it works for John and myself.
Cheers... Rick

Is there a breeze export option that defines the maximum opening resolution of the browser ?

Hi,
The maximum resolution of a breeze presentation slide is 720
x 540 correct?
Does anyone know if there is a way to prevent that a breeze
presentation gets too big when it is opened in a big resolution
screen?
What I’m asking is if there is a breeze export option
that defines the maximum opening resolution of the browser that
contains the breeze presentation, preventing the images and flash
animations to loose too much resolution…
When I play my presentations from the breeze server, it
doesn’t load in the web browser but in a window that not fit
the entire computer screen, what is good to the definition of the
presentation…It is possible to do this locally??
(I may be wrong, but in the breeze server is it opening the
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I sure can, after exporting, place the swf file of the
presentation, manually, in an html file (instead of using the
index.html that is created in the publishing) this way it will
never get bigger when opening it in the browser, but if I do this
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HCSG,
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animation.
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Basic PPT animation won't run after publishing

The first slide of my PPT has some basic animation (no
audio). It works fine in PPT, but after I publish to my local
server, the animation isn't there. The rest of the presentation
works as it is supposed to.
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get a basic animation to run?
Thanks.
Kristi

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I created a sample split animation and works fine in Breeze.
Please take a look at the sample presentation using the link below:
Split
Animation Sample
By the way, what version of Flash Player are you using? If
you are using Flash Player 9, try reverting back to Flash Player 8
and see if it works. Below is the link where you can download Flash
Player 8:
Archived Macromedia Flash
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