Re: FLASH: Movie Clips/Sound files

[Daniel Votino]

I have learned that the seemless starting and stopping of sound clips as

actions with no lag time must happen on frames in which there are no other

keyframes in any other layers.  If Flash has to pay attention to details or

events on other layers simultaneously to starting and stopping a sound then

it will have some element of lag.  Especially if your flash objects are

intense.


~Daniel


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Date: Friday, January 01, 1999 10:43 AM

Subject: Re: FLASH: Movie Clips/Sound files



>At 05:34 AM 12/31/98 -0500, you wrote:

>>What is the best way to completely stop one audio loop and start another

>>instantaneously? you know like toggle two sounds?

>>Can you make an audio file into a movie clip and target it?

>>All of this will be triggered by buttons, say three buttons, but I want

>>button 'B'

>>to turn off any audio that someone might have actived with button 'A' or

>>'C' _and_ at the same time activate audio associated with button 'B'.  and

>>all the other possible variations.

>>TIA

>>

>>bill

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>You can embed the sounds in movie clips.  I'm not sure about getting sounds

>to start and stop instantly or to synchronize them with one another that

>tightly.  I've tried but haven't hit on a solution yet.

>

>To get specific sounds to turn off, you'll need a frame action for each

>sound, in which you specify the particular sound and then set Sync to

>"Stop." Also have a stop action in each of the frames. So if you have three

>sounds, you'll probably want a movie clip with four labeled frames that can

>be targeted.  The first would have an action to stop all sound.  The second

>would stop sound B, stop sound C, and start sound A.  Third would stop A,

>C, and start B.  Etc.  The controlling buttons would telltarget the MC to

>go to one of those four frames.  If you want a single controlling button

>that adds sound layers incrementally, have it telltarget the MC to "go to

>next frame."  In this case, add a fifth frame to the MC that just says "Go

>to frame 1," so the fourth click of the button turns the sound off and

>cycles the MC back to frame 1.

>

>If you try this please let us know how it works.  What I have noticed is

>that starting a sound in Flash often involves a slight lag time and,

>sometimes, a tiny crackle as the sound kicks in.  I haven't found a way to

>make this sort of action seamless.

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>Marc Hoffman

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