Re: streaming flash audio

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Roy:


I don't know how the Flash Xtra for Director works, but I would be very much in

doubt about the sync of animation and sound if you tweak it in Flash and have it

run separately later. While Flash in streaming sound mode adjusts the animation

(i.e. skips frames) in order to stay in sync with the sound, the animation runs a

lot differently, if you strip the sound from that same movie and let the

animation run alone.


I can't really imagine that the strategy that you mentioned could be

successful... But let me know if it works!


Greetings,


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Roy Pardi wrote:


> 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

>

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>

>

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