Re: streaming flash audio

[Roy Pardi]

At 5:26 PM -0800 3/31/98, John Dowdell wrote:

>At 4:19 PM 3/31/98, Roy Pardi wrote:

>>any experts here in flash audio? I am not getting great results for long

>>sounds even at high compression rates. (this is through the flash asset

>>xtra where there is extensive control over the buffersize, etc.  - it still

>>falls down + breaks up even with a large buffer)

>

>Wouldn't you want to be using Director's own audio capabilities here

>instead? Gets away from the PC audio monopoly, gives you SWA, more

>control... is there a particular reason to route the audio through Flash

>there...?


my preference would be to use MMD sound - the compression is MUCH better

(mmd internal = 96k - Flash > 250k  w/ similar compression specs)


The issue is that it is much, much harder to do vaguely tight sync between

Flash animation + mmd internal or SWA audio, even with cuePoints. The

artists doing the animation in flash are more guessing at timing, etc.


I was trying the audio in Flash as a possible solution - but the playback

is just not adequate. I think I will try an approach where the artists

import the sound in flash, use it to animate to, then strip it out when

they export the .swf file. This way they can tweak and adjust in one app.

This way it should be close, and I can use the cuepoints for timing

correction.


I like the mmd/flash messaging, and think it is done well considering the

complexity involved, but its not worth the complexity of implementing in

certain cases when a number of hands are working on the files.


-Roy  Pardi


New Bytes:  Behavior Writer Xtra for Director 6

http://www.tiac.net/users/rpardi/behaviorwriter/


         




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