Flash :: Syncing Audio Across Scenes

Syncing Multiple Scenes
Is there a way to sync multiple scenes to one audio file, without having to cut the audio?

I have a 12 scene music video, and I'd like to keep each scene in a different Scene in flash. But at the end of the scene, the audio file cuts off and I need to start it over from the start. is there a way to have that audio file carry over?

I've just been crunching my movie into one very long scene. Is there a workaround for this?

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Audio Syncing
I'm working on a relatively long project where the lyrics are supposed to match the text about 3 minutes into it. The problem I'm having is that it appears to be very inconsistent between browsers and slower computers.

The music is nested on the timeline starting at frame 2. The file already has a preloader. Can anybody suggest a better solution so that it stays universally consistent?

Thanks in advance

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Audio Syncing
I've been working on a little personal project of mine that involves kind of pasting frames from an animation into flash frames so that they match up with a piece of audio I imported, basically matching animated characters up to sing/move along with the audio.

It was fun to make, and I got all the timing right in flash's "test movie" app, but it was extremely frustrating once I exported it after I was done, because it never seems to stay at the same speed.

One minute, the frames will be too fast for the audio and it's all out of sync, then the next time I play it it's perfect, then the next it's perfect until a few seconds into the flash. Even when I pause the animation the audio continues to play, which may mean that the framerate is staggering a bit when it plays and that's what's causing a lack of sync.

Are there any essential tips for doing animations like these?
Anything to make the frames stay the same speed, or atleast slow down the audio to always match the way they were edited if the frames need to slow down?

Thanks!

Edited: 04/21/2007 at 08:47:36 AM by Xiohiro

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Syncing Visual With Audio...Possible Or No?
Hello,

I was attempting to make an Intro video with Swish, but as it turned out, syncing the video with the audio was impossible, because it wouldnt appear the same on other computers. My question is, would this be the same with Flash, or would Flash videos actually appear the same on all computers, or at least better than Swish. I'm currently using Flash 5.

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Audio Syncing Troubles
Ok, I know all about streaming and such, I've been doing that for ages. My problem is that certain audio files will play before that say they're supposed to on the timeline. Is there any actionscript, or another method I could use to fix this? Any help is appreciated.

I already asked this question at the Newgrounds BBS, but most of the users there are 14 and do that 1337-speak thing... so not too much help there.

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Syncing Audio And Visual Help Please
I am wanting to make a visual sync/effects that will do a AVS thing like winamp does. Anybody here made one before and wouldnt mind giving me some hints or where I can find a tutorial on how to do this? thanks alot

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Problems Syncing Audio
Hi all
I am working on a little intro http://acatch22production.com/intro8.swf and having a hard time getting the machine gun to sync correct. If i set its length in the time line to the same as the dude fires the gun, it is too short on my pc and lap top. But it plays correct on my clients pc. If I set it so it plays correct for me it is too long for him. I have tried stream, event, start and stop. I am a bit frustrated.

Please help

dave

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Syncing Audio/Video
I have matched audio with my video, but unless I view it at a 200% zoom or closer, the video falls behind the audio. This even happens with an exported movie. Other than that, the audio is perfectly matched in the timeline.

Is there a reason why this is happening?

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Audio Syncing Between MovieClips
Heya gang.

Im using MCs as scenes, and have an audio track that spans across several MCs. Now when I use an internal command within the MC to proceed to the next frame of it's parent, the audio makes a tiny gap. It may seem like no big deal, but Im trying to make a seamless transition and this really throws the thing out of ordeal.

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Audio Syncing Problem
I'm currently having troubles with audio syncing. I recently made a switch from 12 fps to 24 fps, and now my audio keeps getting set off, it seems that if i have a streaming audio put in, (such as character voices), and then have an event sound sometime after it, the event sound will become off sync, sometimes more than 30 sec off sync, also if i have any more event sounds after the first one, they will start before the last one ended, way before the movie even reaches the frame where they are cued to start at. However, if i do not have a stream audio in, and i leave all the sounds at event, the sounds play at the right time, but they arn't synced up the way i want them to that streaming them would do. any idea how to fix this?

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[-HELP-] Syncing ID3 Lyrics With Audio
This is gonna sound crazy, but I'm trying to get Flash to load the ID3 tags I want, including lyrics. If you got a chance to check out the Jukebox sample that was included with Flash 8, I'm trying to build on that to get what I want. There are three ways that I believe are possible to do this. If anyone can tell me how to do it one of these ones (or even suggest a better way) please do tell me. Here are the scenarios by order of priority:

1) Flash 8 Components (ID3 tags + synchronized lyrics)Flash loads song name, artist name, etc. and synchronized lyrics from an MP3 file's ID3 info. The lyrics move synchronously to the music playing.
2) Flash 8 Components (ID3 tags + nonsynchronized lyrics)Flash loads song name, artist name, etc. and normal lyrics from an MP3 file's ID3 info. The lyrics do not move synchronously but can be scrolled manually.
3) Flash 8 Components (ID3 tags + external lyrics)Flash loads song name, artist name, etc. and normal lyrics from an external text file. The lyrics do not move synchronously but can be scrolled manually.
Thanks for reading!

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Syncing Movie To Audio ...
Hi all, what it says on the tin really!!

Im trying to sync a movie to a piece of audio about a minute long. Its in sync if I play the movie (not preview!) but goes out when I export or preview.

Any ideas?

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Syncing Audio With Images
Let me explain:

(Fading Images)
My Flash file is made up of images that fade in and out. (For e.g. Frame 1-100 is image 1 fading in and out. Frame 100-200 is image 02 fading in and out etc.)

(Audio)
I have created an audio track in a separate layer that is the full length of my movie. (200 frames long)

(Question)
The Flash movie starts with the audio playing. If the user doesn't want the audio (music) to play then I want them to click a toggle on/off button to stop and start the movie. The problem is, if they stop the music and restart it the audio starts from the beginning of the audio track even if they restart it half way through the movie. How can I fix this so if the music is turned on at any point in the movie the audio track will pick up at the correct point in the movie?

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Syncing Images And Audio
Let me explain:

(Fading Images)
My Flash file is made up of images that fade in and out. (For e.g. Frame 1-100 is image 1 fading in and out. Frame 100-200 is image 02 fading in and out etc.)

(Audio)
I have created an audio track in a separate layer that is the full length of my movie. (200 frames long)

(Question)
The Flash movie starts with the audio playing. If the user doesn't want the audio (music) to play then I want them to click a toggle on/off button to stop and start the movie. The problem is, if they stop the music and restart it the audio starts from the beginning of the audio track even if they restart it half way through the movie. How can I fix this so if the music is turned on at any point in the movie the audio track will pick up at the correct point in the movie.

Is there a better way to do this?

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Syncing Audio With Video
Hi,

I was so proud that I was finally able to get voice to play along with some simple tweenings of words and images on the screen. The synchronization looks and sounds absolutely fine in the swf. (I have one long voice file on one layer and the visual stuff in other layers.)

But, when I export to a QuickTime movie all of a sudden the audio and video become more and more out of sync as the movie plays. (it's running more than two minutes with words popping on the screen and someone reading them).

Not sure it matters... But, I'm trying to get this into .mov format, so that I use the Flash CS3 video encoder to create the flv file, so that I can use the nice flvplayback controller.

Can you help? If you refer to the FAQ, I'd appreciate a link to it. I've been wandering around the Flash Kit Community and have only been able to find the FAQ about posting. Be gentle...

Also, should I be cutting the audio at reasonable breaks in the reading? Or is it okay to leave it as one longer voice piece?

Any help is appreciated. This thing is supposed to be completed by tomorrow. and it's obviously not.

-w

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I'm Clueless About Audio And Syncing
Hi, I don't know anything with regards to recording my voice and putting it into an animated short with flash.
1) Is there any preferred way to record my voice, in any specific file format?
2) Should I record everything at once, or would recording small tidbits be better?
3) Is there any other program I have to use to edit the length of the sound files if I need to edit them?

Thanks

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Syncing Audio With Video
I am importing a .mov file with audio and they are not syncing properly. Is this possible in MX?

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Syncing Flash To Audio . . .
hello and thanks for reading,

I am trying to create a slide presentation, in which the slides change in time with an audio file. The presentation is close to 5 minutes long. Some funky stuff is happening(I am using Flash MX on XP Pro):

when i use a .wav file it sounds garbled, almost like a super lo-fi real player type compression. same for a 320k/s mp3. (is flash trying to do some kind of compression itself?)

when i use a 128k/s mp3 and set the sync parameter to 'event' it sounds fine, but does not stay together with the visuals. so obviously I should set the sync parameter to 'stream,' right? So when I do this it syncs up, but sounds garbled(my guess is the flash is time compressing and stretching it which is distorting the audio).

Does anybody have some advice, or even just an explanation of what's happening?

thanks, 4est.

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Syncing Audio With Actionscript
Hey everyone,

Any idea how these guys http://www.reactormovie.com/ are able to make a movie sync with audio and still control volume? I've been using the 'Stream' audio function and the only way to turn it off is 'stopAllSounds' for the current clip.

Thanks for the help!

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Syncing Slides With Audio
Syncing slides with audio

Can someone point me in the right direction!? i am trying to build a presentation that will have streaming audio and slides. The slides need to be in sync with the audio file so that they (the slides) change at appropriate (precise) times.

For example; The audio has been playing for 01:25:030 and i need the silde to appear at 01:36:250. Any help?

Thank you!

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Syncing Slides With Audio
Syncing slides with audioSyncing Slides with Audio

Can someone point me in the right direction!? i am trying to build a presentation that will have streaming audio and slides. The slides need to be in sync with the audio file so that they (the slides) change at appropriate (precise) times.

For example; The audio has been playing for 01:25:030 and i need the silde to appear at 01:36:250. Any help?

Thank you!

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Syncing Speech Audio With Animation?
Hello... Im just starting to experiment with flash animations, and Im having trouble timing speech and audio tracks in my cartoons. What I've been doing is recording an mp3 file with the character's lines on a seperate layer, and then doing a 'frame by frame' animation of his mouth moving on another layer. When I test the movie within Flash MX (ctrl-enter) it syncs up perfect, but when I export the file and preview it a browser, the audio plays much faster than the animations do.

Say, for example I have a cartoon made at 20fps, and an mp3 track that is 10 seconds long. I will insert the 10 sec mp3 on one layer, and on another layer, I will draw an animation of the characters mouth moving. The animation of the mouth moving is 200 frames long (20fps*10sec), and it plays out perfectly in the preview in Flash MX. But when I look at it in a browser, the audio finishes playing in the regular 10 seconds, but the animation takes 15 seconds to play, so the mouth keeps moving for 5 seconds after the audio stops. It looks dumb.

Can anybody tell me the proper way to animate a character talking? Am I on the right track, or is this just a dumb idea to begin with? heheh...

Thanks in advance-- Andrew

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Flash & Audio Not Syncing Properly...
Please help!

I spliced up audio bits thinking it would work more effectively with syncing the audio clips with animated segments. Well, it winds up being a guessing game & I feel as if I'm working blind! I have to keep watching it over & over in the Flash Player to get the timing right.
Wouldn't you think that where the audio line stops, that is where you'd insert the next audio clip? Well, for some reason it doesn't want to work like that so I've been dragging audio clips so that the audio line appears overlapped to the one below (on its respective layer), even though when I play them they are not; but it's getting really frustrating and more difficult to sync up as I get further & further down the timeline.
Do you have any technical advice or the solution to this problem?
P.S. -- I then tried lining them up (as to what would seem the logical method)...where the audio line stops, I add another layer w/ the next audio clip -- and I set those audio layers to stream. Well, this worsened it by making the audio overlap itself audibly.
Please help!
Christine

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[F8] Problem With Audio Syncing Up To Animation
I'm using flash to make an animated film -- no actionscripting, no game inside, no buttons or anything. I'm just using it as an animation tool.

Anyway, I've plugged in some rough sound effects for my rough animatic and every time i test the movie or export it (swf or mov) the sound effects at certain points just cease to line up with where i have put them on the timeline. I've gone back through to double check and make sure i have them lined up properly in the flash timeline and they are lined up in the right spot. I can't figure out why it continually refuses to line up properly. By the end of the animatic the sound stops a good 30 seconds beforehand because the sound plays faster than the animation does.

Can anyone help? I have everything set on individual frames set to stream (0).

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Syncing Audio With Large Video?
I have a large video (720x405) that is embedded within my Flash file. I'm having trouble getting the audio to sync with it. At first I imported the video with the audio integrated into the video but that didn't work at all. Then I tried importing it in with the audio seperate. I placed the audio on the same timeline as the video and set the sound to stream. That doesn't work either... hmmmm.

Any ideas on how I could get the audio to sync with the video?

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Syncing Audio To Animation In Flash 8
Hello All,

I am currently working on a project that requires me to sync dialog in a voice-over with text animations. When I view the file on my computer, everything is synced up perfectly. But on computers with a slower processing speed, there is a discrepancy between the timing.

I am using the following actionscript to start the audio in a frame script.

Code:
intro_audio = new Sound();
intro_audio.attachSound("intro");
intro_audio.start();
Is there anything I can do to ensure that the timing is standardized on any computer it is played on?

Thanks!
-Matt

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Syncing Multiple Audio Tracks
Ok, so I havn't even BEGUN creating the flash movie for this project (project 2, due tuesday ), since I want to see if anyone knows of a tutorial that I might be able to base this off of.

I'm basically going to make a limited flash emulation of James Pattens Audiopad . There will be objects on the canvas which hold an audio track on a constant loop. I am making all of the audio tracks the same BPM and length, and I want them to stay synced perfectly so that there is no trainwrecking (audio clash). The user will be able to move the objects on the canvas around to control the volume of each aspect of the song.

So, has anyone heard of this? I've seen some fun little things on the old shockwave.com that had a similar feature and kept different audio tracks in sync. I'm getting the audio done first, so that I will have tracks to use once I start testing.

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Audio Syncing Issues With Flash Presentation.
Hello Everyone,

We're working on a flash presentation for a client of ours that includes a voiceover and background audio track and we have come into a snag with how the audio is syncing up with the animation.

We are using Flash 8 and the final published flash file will be played locally from a newer PC laptop connected to a Plasma TV so as of right now file size and streaming over the internet isn't a factor.

When the voiceover layer was set to "streaming" the voiceover sounds really compressed and distorted but once the audio and animation was synced up. The presentation played well (minus the sound quality) and the audio and animation stayed in sync with each other.

To make the voiceover sound better we changed the layer from "streaming" to "Start" which made the voiceover sound 10 folds better, BUT even though we went back and re synced the audio and animation together now the SWF/projector/.EXE file sometimes plays and syncs up great, other times the audio is completely off with the animation.

Has anyone ever had this problem? (from reading other posts on it seems lots of people have had similar issues with Flash when working with audio)

And any ideas on how we can fix this?

Pretty sure the syncing up issues now stems from changing the audio layer from "streaming" to "start" so if anyone has any suggestions on how we can make the audio layer sound clearer and still be set to "streaming" that would also be a great help.

Many thanks, any help is appreciated.

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Syncing Audio With An Image -- At Specific Time.
Hey:

Is it possible to sync together and audio file (as it plays) with an image or anything else, based upon time? In other words, if i have a tracc playing for lets say -- 1:26.360 -- and at 1:31.027 i want and image to appear, is it possible to accomplish this?

Any suggestions and/or examples will be greatly appreaciated.

Thank you!

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Audio Scenes
hey everybody!

I just need to know if there is any way to make an audio file continue through scenes smoothly. I mean, if it is playing in one scene and the scene ends it will still be playing in the next scene without any audible transition. Thanks for the help!

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Fading Audio Out At The End Of Scenes
I know its possible to control the volume of your audio using actionscript.

How can i make my audio fade out near the end of a scene so that its not such a sharp snap between scenes?

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Audio Over Multiple Scenes
Hello all,
I am working on a simple animated audio message that shows bar graphs and such to reflect a companies quarterly earnings. This message is synched to an audio voice recording. I would like to break this message up into scenes for each animation and have the voice recording play across the multiple scnes. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

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Audio Across Multiple Scenes?
IS there a way to load external audio and have it play continually across multiple scenes?

In other words, even if it is just a simple short loop I don't want it to restart every time a user goes to a new scene.

Thanks!

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Audio Stream Over Multiple Scenes
Is it possible to stream audio over multiple scenes? If so what is the best way to do it?

Thx

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Switching Scenes Off-synches Audio
Hello!

I've been having a bit of trouble with switching to a scene in flash, and then once I do this, the audio slightly goes off synch with the rest of the animation. However, if I return to the original Scene. (Say, Scene 1) the audio and animation synches back to normal. I was warned from a friend that scenes can sometimes be buggy... I don't like them myself either, but it keeps things slightly organized for me.

This only happens in a finished, compiled version of the movie, and not when I test playback while editing.

I am using Flash Professional 8.

Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thank you!

(I can provide the .FLA file and/or the animation if you wish, just be advised it has some profanity in it.)

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Spanning Streamed Audio Across Multiple Scenes?
Hey, I'm making a music video of sorts, and I'm stumped over this -- I know that when a long sound clip (i.e. a song) is synched to "event", it'll play over multiple scenes, but isn't there any way to get a long sound clip to play over multiple scenes when it's synched to "stream"? It just stops when the scene changes, and of course, if it's synched to "event", then there's the high risk of it running out of synch with the animation (which is a REAL hassle when I'm trying to lip-synch it). If there's any way to get around this, it would REALLY come in handy for me.

(Edit: Btw, I'm using Flash MX 6.0.)

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Flash Audio Question: Streaming And Scenes
Flashers,

Ok so I have a flash movie that has two scenes in it. In the first frame of the first scene I play my MP3 and I have it set with no effect but with a synch of 'Stream and Loop". I do stream because I don't want there to be a wait for the download time AND I want the music to synch up perfectly with the animation - they sort of dance together (the music and animation, so I have to do Stream).

Here is my question and problem. When I upload the movie to the server and play it back the sound does start perfectly, the animation streams well and in synch with the graphics BUT when the timeline hits the second scene - the music stops for a second and then starts over - i dont want it to stop at all when it hits the second scene. What do I do to have it play on. I do still want it to repeat at the very end of scene two but I dont want it to start over in between scenes - what am I do wrong - what settings do I need?

Thanks in advance.

Andrew

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Audio Play/Stop Button To Stay In State Throughout Scenes
I have a movie with 13 scenes that each contain a Play Audio and Stop Audio button (symbols), as well as navigation buttons (button symbols within a movieclip). I'm trying to make 2 things happen:
1) when the user clicks the Play Audio button (no matter what scene they're in) each scene will then be triggered to play the streaming MP3 (using loadSound) as they jump from scene to scene using the nav buttons (each scene calls a different MP3)
and
2) The Play Audio will then turn into a Stop Audio button (and stay this way throughout all the scenes), which when clicked will do the exact opposite of number 1.

I've tried loading a separate audio-enabled swf (that's exactly the same as the original movie, just with loadSound action in the first frame of every scene) into an empty MC to accomplish both of the above, it works but the nav button functions do not work this way.

Did I explain this clear enough? Please help! Thanks.

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Video Stops And Audio Continues - Individual Scenes Work, Together Video Freezes
This is my first flash project ever, but I think I got a handle on layers, scenes, using streamed audio, etc. The sync works for every scene when tested independently. Those exported .swf run fine. But when I try to publish the entire movie as a .swf or .exe or any other format, it always freezes at a certain point. The video stops but the audio continues.

Can anyone help me or give me an idea of where to start diagnosing the issue?

I've resorted to converting each individual .swf into .avis then combining the segments into the video that I want, but, of course, this doesn't retain the size, scalability, and quality benefits of a .swf file. Please help!

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Lip-Syncing
Hi all!

I am currently creating a few characters to add to my website with a sound clip. I want to make the characters sync with the sound to look like they are talking.

My sound clip has music in the background, so I can't just go by the squigly lines to sync my characters.

My question is - is there any way to hear the sound frame by frame, without having to keep playing the whole thing?

Thanks!

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Lip Syncing
this isn't a problem or anything. i'm really more looking for advice here.

does anyone know any tips or tricks that make lip syncing a less unbearable experience? or am i really just gonna have to get used to the fact that lip syncing will always be a slow horrible annoying process...

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Syncing
Hi. I'm not sure if there's a topic about this already, but...
I currently run Flash 8. When I play a scene in the workspace, all the sounds are where I want them. However, when I hit "Test Movie," the sound plays roughly five seconds before it's supposed to. I have the sound on stream, I've tried setting it to event, stop, start, and I've tried fiddling around with the export setting, to no avail. I've googled this a thousand times, and just end up with the same results in my movie. If anyone here can help, that would be great.
-The Animator
PS: The text above was taken directly from my topic on the Adobe support forums, which got no response (Normally I would wait, but I can't actually make my animation until I fix this.)

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Syncing
Hi. I'm pretty sure there's a topic about this already, but...
I currently run Flash 8. When I play a scene in the workspace, all the sounds are where I want them. However, when I hit "Test Movie," the sound plays roughly five seconds before it's supposed to. I have the sound on stream, I've tried setting it to event, stop, start, and I've tried fiddling around with the export setting, to no avail. I've googled this a thousand times, and just end up with the same results in my movie. If anyone can help, that would be great.
-The Animator

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Lip-syncing
any know of any painless, preferably automated, methods of lip-syncing?

other than flashamp. too cheap to purchase anything.

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Syncing Sounds?
I want to make it so my sounds play when I WANT THEM TOO, and when their supposed to, without skipping, etc. Would this best be done by using a preloader or is there another way to sync sounds? Thanks!

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Syncing With Two Flashes?
yeah i have two .swf on a home page and want them to play at same time
www.henkell.com.au
yeah i've got one FLASH which is pictures of buildings which is faded in and out then under that i have an another flash which is the text for that flash of the building i have timed it all right so that they both fade at the right time but one loads quick then the other and plays and the text flash hasn't even finish loading
is there anyway i can get them to load at the same time and only play when both are fully loaded so they are in sync??
is there HTML CODE which can get to stop untill both are fulling loaded in memory or i can assign one flash to wait for another or something
i'm sooo lost help please

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Sound Not Syncing In SWF
I am using Flash MX to make a new Flash movie. For some reason, the audio is playing way early for the entire movie.

Some basic info:
I am working at 24 FPS
My sound files are all MP3s.

It's fine in the FLA project, and when I output the movie as an AVI. I'm just having problems with the SWF. It's very bizarre. Anyone know anything about this? Is it a bug in MX?

Thanks!

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