Importing Audio - MACROMEDIA BREEZE-USING THE BREEZE PLUG-IN FOR MICROSOFT POWERPOINT Use Manual

Note: To ignore all markers within an audio file, select the Ignore Markers check box in the Import
dialog box.

Importing audio

Breeze Plug-In for PowerPoint allows you to import external audio files into your PowerPoint
presentation to use as slide narration. You can use externally recorded audio, for example,
recordings from a live event or professionally produced audio, with your online presentation.
During import, you can match specific audio files to specific slides in a presentation. In addition,
the Breeze Plug-in supports timing markers from the audio-editing program Sound Forge to help
you synchronize your audio and animations to your presentation. There are three basic methods
of importing audio with Breeze Plug-In for PowerPoint:
•
Create and import one audio file for each slide. During import, you assign each audio file to a
specific slide in your presentation.
•
Import multiple individual audio files. If you have created individual audio files, you can
import them all at once if you have named them appropriately, as indicated in the procedure
that follows.
•
Create one long audio file with Sound Forge markers. During import you will select the initial
slide corresponding to the audio file—the Breeze plug-in automatically assigns the audio and
animations to the slides using the Sound Forge markers in the audio file.
To import individual audio files for each slide:
Prior to following this procedure, give each audio filename a numeric extension (for example,
slide1, slide2, slide3).
Select Breeze > Import Audio.
1.
In the Choose Slides and Files for Import dialog box, select the slide for import by clicking the
2.
slide name.
Click the Browse button to find the audio file associated with the selected slide, and then click
3.
Open. Breeze Plug-In for PowerPoint collects information about animations, length of the
audio file, and the name of the associated File.
Note: If your audio file is read incorrectly, for example, if the audio is spread over multiple slides,
you may have timing markers in your file. To ignore all markers, click Ignore Markers below the
Browse button.
Continue assigning audio files to slides by repeating steps 2 and 3 above.
4.
After you have assigned all the audio files, click Start Import to import the selected audio files.
5.
To import a single audio file containing Sound Forge markers:
Select Breeze > Import Audio.
1.
In the Choose Slides and Files for Import dialog box, select the initial slide for import by
2.
clicking its name.
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