Re: FLASH: Music streaming/Flash/Director?

[Marc Hoffman, Poison Dart Frog Media]

At 12:11 PM 1/24/00 , you wrote:


>Would the output of Director apply to its output control of sound in both

>Flash [swf] and Shockwave outputs for the web [not CDs] or only with

>Shockwave?


I don't have direct experience with this. Anyone else?




>Jeff

> >>I am wondering if you can get more precise control of sound streaming

> >>and/or events with Director and Shockwave than you can with Flash.

> >

> >Flash does a good job of synching animation to sound when the sound sync

> >type is set to Stream.

> >

> >Director has many additional features for controlling and polling sound.

> >For example, it allows you to control multiple sound tracks at once. It can

> >adjust relative volumes of sound tracks on the fly and it can poll how much

> >of a sound has played. Because Director has a more powerful graphics

> >display engine, it may be able to display more of the animation when

> >syncing to sound than does Flash (which will sometimes drop animation

> >frames to keep up), but I don't use Director regularly so I'm not as

> >certain about that.

> >

> >Marc Hoffman



Marc Hoffman


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