Wednesday, June 11, 2003
Breeze cooking with gas
Well I've been hitting the road selling Breeze, and I've pretty much converted myself :) Read "new-born Breeze evangelist here" and expect my new Breeze category to be populated with my ongoing discoveries and adventures in this area.
Breeze is expensive -- well for a Macromedia product at least -- but it delivers a lot of value. Too many people seem to be pigeon holeing it as a simple Powerpoint to SWF converter -- clearly it does this with excellent results but its so much more.
Now that I'm super charged with Macro-enthusiasm I'm throwing down the gauntlet: tell me the Powerpoint to SWF converters you know about and I'll tell you why Breeze leads the field.
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How about Camtasia Studio... I can record ANYTHING that is on my screen including mouse movements, screen movements, and anything else I want... when i am done with the whole deal, I publish as a flash movie....
Works great! So can Breeze do all this?
And by the way, Camtasia studio is only $300 retail.
Posted by: Patrick Steil on June 12, 2003 03:36 AM
Oh, sorry, the URL is http://www.camtasia.com/
Posted by: Patrick Steil on June 12, 2003 03:37 AM
Yep, know all about Camtasia -- nice little product though I think its resulting file sizes are a little bit big. You see Breeze would work in combination to Camtasia not really in competition. You could record a small demo movie in Camtasia and embed it into your Breeze presentation.
Breeze provides excellent support for complete lunatics (I speak from personal experience :) to use Powerpoint to build classy Flash presentations. Breeze provides significantly improved audio support. And a complete server based solution for hosting, managing and usage tracking of Breeze courseware.
Camtasia, and products of that ilk, are technical tools for developing presentation material -- they're not really suited to non-technical users and do not provide an end to end solution.
Posted by: Geoff Bowers on June 12, 2003 05:20 PM
How about Camtasia Studio... I can record ANYTHING that is on my screen including mouse movements, screen movements, and anything else I want... when i am done with the whole deal, I publish as a flash movie....
Works great! So can Breeze do all this?
And by the way, Camtasia studio is only $300 retail.
Posted by: Patrick Steil on June 12, 2003 03:36 AM
Oh, sorry, the URL is http://www.camtasia.com/
Posted by: Patrick Steil on June 12, 2003 03:37 AM
Yep, know all about Camtasia -- nice little product though I think its resulting file sizes are a little bit big. You see Breeze would work in combination to Camtasia not really in competition. You could record a small demo movie in Camtasia and embed it into your Breeze presentation.
Breeze provides excellent support for complete lunatics (I speak from personal experience :) to use Powerpoint to build classy Flash presentations. Breeze provides significantly improved audio support. And a complete server based solution for hosting, managing and usage tracking of Breeze courseware.
Camtasia, and products of that ilk, are technical tools for developing presentation material -- they're not really suited to non-technical users and do not provide an end to end solution.
Posted by: Geoff Bowers on June 12, 2003 05:20 PM