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Sound Synchronizing With Animation
this is a new problem that has developed for me. i have a movie that is 8 minutes long. i have worked very hard on it. i use voiceovers and music thru it. (more over the voices then music). i set al the sounds to STREAM. my movie plays at 24 FPS and the sound properties are set to- MP3- medium-24kbps. when i test an individual scene in my flash toon, it plays perfect. sound is synchronized beautifully. when i export the entire SWF thats 8 minutes long the sound starts out fine, but then after about 4 minutes of playing the sound begins to cut off b4 it has finished playing thru. in simple terms, when someone is talking in my toon theyre voice is cut off short.
then i tried switching the sound properties to ACPDM (i think thats how it is spelled). this time the sound plays all the way thru but it starts playing the sound b4 the character who is talking even moves they're lips. i tried speech and it did the same thing. i tried raw but eveything sounds terrible. this problem is very frustrating and if u have ne info on how to correct this please inform me.
now i want to mention i havent tried actionscript yet because actionscript is greek to me. i tried reading up on the tutorial on this site but I can seem to pick it up very well. thank you for taking the time to read this and i pray someone can give me the solution.

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Synchronizing Sound With Animation
I made an amimation for a class, the voice and mouth matched when i played it inside flash, but once i published the animation the voices and the mouths were way off. The voices played faster, i played with the frame rate but that didn't work. I was just wondering if there was anyway to fix that.

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Synchronizing Sound And Animation - Still Not Getting Anywhere
Intro: We (my friend and I) have put together a flash animation to which we have added music. This movie needs to play at the start of a Powerpoint presentation at a meeting at the beginning of March.

The Problem: on my friend's PC (Pentium 4, 3Ghz), the music and animation are perfectly in sync, but when we transfer it to any other computer (usually slower), the animation starts to LAG after about 8-10 seconds and continues to do so (with increasing interval) up to the end of the movie (about 52 seconds).

The what-we-thought-was-a-solution: In a few of the forum threads, the Sync - Stream option is mentioned. However, using this option the animation runs FASTER than the music and this happens on any PC (slow or fast processor).

Another what-we-thought-was-a-solution: Using a preloader. However, the preloader never shows as being fully loaded (in the short look we get at it, it shows 2%, never a full bar) and sound and animation still go out of sync.

The Question: Does anyone know what's causing the synchronization issue (e.g., processor speed)? What's the easiest way to fix it so that synchronisation is perfect regardless of the PC the animation is played on?

Also, we have browsed the forums and have seen the action "LoadSound" mentioned. Can this be a solution to our problem? We did not find information about "LoadSound" in any of the tutorials.

Thank you very much.

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Synchronizing Sound With Animation
Hi, I need some advice.

I have made an application (in flash mx2004, as2) in which i have recorded some speech and have "subtitles" which are highlighted as the sound plays (think karaoke!(...its not karaoke its to help dyslexic students fill out a form)) i also wanted a scrub/slide bar so as the user could scroll back and forth through the sound that was playing and have the subtitles still synchronized. the only way i could manage to get this to work was by:

Having the sound on one layer of the timeline and setting it to "stream" mode.
And then on the other layers i have the animation tweens which highlight the correct words of the subtitles. I have synchronized these all by hand/eye on the timeline.

So in theory whenever the timeline plays a certain frame of the sound the corresponding frame of the animation plays to highlight the correct word. Fine, works well. Until you scroll back and forth quickly or for a long time or something like that then somehow the sound and animation get out of sync.

I'm pretty sure this is something to do with how "stream" mode works for sound but i am not sure, does anyone know of any issues or can suggest another way to go about this?

Ta.

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Synchronizing And Controlling Animation And Sound
I am trying to create synchronized animation and sound that I can control with play and pause button and a slider like the example on this page:

http://www.purenz.com/?2C261CE2-7FCD...D-40AAA00E6D28

I started with the tutorials found on http://www.kennybellew.com/ but I have a hard time achieving the result I want.

Can someone help me?

Thanks in advance.

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Synchronizing Streaming Sound With Animation
Hi there - I have a problem. I have an animation which is 28k and dynamically loads in other swf movies. In the background I am streaming an MP3 track (MP3 is approx 1Mb). My animation is now dropping frames and seems to be playing much faster and does not sync with the sound. Does anyone know a way around this? I am not expecting to sync the sound perfectly but am wanting the sound and animation to generally keep pace together.

My criteria for the movie is to keep the download time down so this is why I have chosen to stream the music.

Any thoughts/ advice would be much appreciated - Thanks.
Minky

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I'm having problems with the sound in my Flash project. I am making a software demo using Flash MX. I have an avi file with the screen movement and a wav file that explains what's going on. My problem is that I can't get the two files to match up correctly once I get them into flash (if I play them outside of flash they match up). I have tried having the files on different layers, splitting up the wav file into different parts, combining the avi and wav files before importing them into flash and nothing seems to get them synced up correctly, and changing the frames per second. Does anybody have any suggestions, I'm desperate!

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Synchronizing Music With Animation
I'm making a music video but have trouble with synchronizing the music to the animation.
Sometimes the animation finishes before the music, or the music before the animation, or it just wont syncronize.
What am I doing wrong?
How do other people get their music to fit so well with the animation?
Do they export it as a different file?

Any links to tutorials would be realy realy realy appresiated.

Thanx.

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Synchronizing Music & Animation.
I'm creating a trailer based on my own computer game and having trouble trying to properly time the animation to certain parts of the song. For example, at 5.9 seconds, the animation instantly zooms in. Except I'm having trouble trying to figure out how to properly time the animation to the music at specific points. Any suggestions on what's the easiest way to go about this?

Help is much appreciated. Thanks.

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Synchronizing Animation To Audio...
I need to create an animation and synchronize it to an audio track. I thought i would be able to import the audio track and then create an animation and just scrub back and forth to synchronize it but the audio just plays though - I have no control over it once it starts playing. How does one go about timing animation to audio?

Thanks,
-M

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Synchronizing Music With Animation
I have created a movieclip that runs with a music file. I need the animation to move in time to the music. My first difficulty is how can I finetune the animation to move precisely in time to the beat of the music (without constantly testing and tweaking)?

Next, assuming I am satisfied with the way the animation runs in time to the music, if I run this movie from within another movie (using loadMovie) and then upload to my web server and run from a browser, the music and the animation never run together consistently.
The animation may run slower than the music, and the whole synchronization is lost.
Is there a better way to do this?

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Synchronizing Sounds W/ Animation
I would like to syncronize sounds with animation

my animation is at 24 fps

I have the sounds set to "stream", but they play about a scene or two too early when I preview the entire film.

any suggestions?

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[AS] Synchronizing Animation To Music.
I was wondering how to make an animation follow the beats of a song. An example of this would be on winamp or windows media player...the visualization area ..where the animation follows the music. Hope someone can understand what i'm trying to get at...thanks.

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Sound Synchronizing
Hello Friends,

I have a Flash presentation created in FlashMX. First there is a logo introduction after that I load a movie with some animation and two sounds playing one after the other. It is playing well in my system(800X600) but not in any other system. The issue is after the logo animation the sound is not synchronizing in the movie which I load. The first sound is not going along with the animation as I have set. It is ending before animation or If I try to alter the sound it is looping again. The second sound is fine and going along with the animation.

Kindly help me to sort this issue.

Regards,
Minchu.

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Synchronizing Sound
hello,
just wondering if there is any way to synchronize a flash animation i have with sound....so that what appears on the screen is in sync with the sound....
thanx

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Synchronizing Of Sound Track
I have problems to coordinate my swf in the web. It works very well went I play in FLa file and when I Publish in ixplorer in my computer, but, when I publsh that in the web, I don't have the correct synchronize that I have in my computer.

What I have to do?

You can see, If you want, the animation in my site:

http://insepto.free.fr

Then the link comic
and then the link:
Compay segundo

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Sound Synchronizing Problem
I hope that someone else has run into this problem......

Anyway, I am using Flash MX Professional 2004. I am making a few tutorials to answer some FAQs about my company. I am putting in a click noise at various parts of the tutorial (all in the same layer). When I play the movie in the editor, the sound is synchronized, but when I test the movie, the sound is playing a few frames ahead of where it is supposed to.

I made a few movies before and I did not encounter this problem.

Any ideas of why the sound (wav.) is not playing where it is supposed to when published?????

Thanks for your help

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Synchronizing Mc Sound And Mask
Hello,

I'm new to actionscript/flash. I have on different layers: action, sound, lilypad, animated_mc, home_btn, 2 water levels, water_mask. What I'd like is if the home_btn is released, for the animated_mc (frog jumping off the lilypad) to play just once, the water mask to move, the sound to occur, and then the user taken to a different url.

On the action layer I have:
//stop the movie clip when page loads
animated_mc.stop();
//when home button is pressed, play the movie clip
home_btn.onRelease = function(){
animated_mc.play()}

And at frame 17:
_root.waterSound = new Sound(animated_mc);
_root.waterSound.attachSound("water");

This part I added to get the time when the sound should play
(http://www.flashkit.com/tutorials/Au...824/more17.php)
But Mr. Bellew did not have _global which I added to avoid “NaN” in the text box.
time_btn.onRelease = function() {
_global.nTime=waterSound.position/1000
}

The time is not displaying in the text box, even though I defined the variable as nTime.

The movie clip plays when the button is pressed. The sound and the water mask play/move continuously even if the button is not pressed.

I haven't tried the next step yet - when the water splash (mask) ends, the user will be taken to a different page in the site.

I'll be making several of these buttons to incorporate into a dreamweaver css file. Will I be making different swf files for each button?

Thanks for any help on this. P.s. I’ve posted this at actionscript.com and kirupa.com with no luck.
Janis

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When I create a movie in Flash, I make one layer for sound, and the rest of the layers for motion. While editing my movie in the Flash interface, I can play it to make sure that the sound and the action "line up." (ex: If there was a beat in the music where I wanted the background to change color, I line it up so that it perfectly matches, and everything sounds great.)

When I publish a movie, however, whether it's in .swf format, or another format (recently I've been exporting as .mov), sometimes the sound and action play like I wanted them to, and sometimes they do not. I have tested my movies on multiple computers. All of them play the sound and the action unpredictably, as if they are being exported as two separate things.

Obviously this is a problem -- if I can't predict whether the sound and the action will match, how can I make intros / movies for presentations with sound? I've had this problem for the few years I've been creating things and Flash, and usually end up making the movie without sound out of frustration. Is there something obvious I'm missing? Thanks for any responses! Feel free to e-mail me.

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I am creating a FLASH file in Flash MX 2004 Pro and I have two clips that are to play each time a certain note plays in the MP3 file.

When I create the file and preview it and even publishing it the synchronizing is right on, but when it is uploaded to the server and played in an html document (Dreamweaver MX 2004) these clips play out of synch maybe one or two frames.

Any idea what I can do?

Thanks for any help!

Charles

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Synchronizing Music File With The Movie
I am so ashamed. I have been doing a multimedia CD rom for a company including an intro with an apropriate music for it. I have been testing it at home, at work it all worked very well. (On newer processors 1,5-2,5 Ghz). But when i went to the company to present the latest version with the music on it, i got ashamed. Whether it was because of the slower computer or because of the media the movie was comming from, a CDRom, the movie was running much slower but the music was playing normal, so my music file finished earlier than the intro! How can i fix this? The music file is synchronized with some events. It needs to be. Also it need to be running throughout the intro. No pauses.

Thanks in advance.

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Hi there
I was wondering if you could help me figure this thing out.

I imported an MP3 file to the stage and started working around it to synchronize the actions with the music. When I hit "Ctrl+enter" to test the movie within flash everything seems synchronized but when I publish to an SWF, the synchronization is off...

Is there something I need to do so that it's synchronized when published?

Thanks
Losse

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Does anyone have any ideas on how to achieve this effect?

j

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Hi guys

I have a character on one layer, eyes on another and mouth on the third. I imported the streaming sound as guide for where which mouth/eyes should appear. I have a list of different mouths like "eeh" "ooh" "aah" etc, and different eyes.

All I want is some few tips how to save time without getting lost inside thousands of frames and getting a good overview over the entire scene.

Currently I have all eyes and mouths on a seperate layer, and I find a particural frame where to insert a particular mouth/eyes.

Is there a easier way?

-Regards

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i think it will be something like.. rotate wheel +1 when ever x moves..

im very new to action scripting.. but im learning.

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Then it was time for me o make an animation. I made all the legs and arms basic movements in the "Body" movieclip with Motion Tween and made the smaller animations for the smaller bodyparts in the different movieclips in the "Body" movieclip (for example to make the Left_Underarm move upwars when walking I entered the Left_Arm movieclip and changed it there). Now the problem is that it's very very hard to see what to do in different situations because I can't see how to move the smaller bodyparts layers (example Left_Biceps) to look good and match the movements of the bigger bodyparts layers (example Left_Arm) for example when the character is walking... So I'm wondering if there really isn't any easier and more effective way to animate characters than this??? ....Phew hope I made myself clear...... Really appreciate answers!!

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Here's a URL with a post of my file.

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