synchronize voiceover with graphics

[Changhsu P. Liu]

Greetings,


We have a short Director work that the client wants to re-use it on web. It

is basically a voiceover introduction of a place. As the vocieover plays

different maps displays and animates (zoom in from the US to this specific

area of US). I'm evaluating 3 technologies (Shockwave Flash, Shockwave

Director, QuickTime) and to come up with a recommendation. 


Both QuickTime and Shockwave Director can do very good sync but the file

sizes are too big (2-3MB). Since we have all the maps in Illustrator

format, I think I can make Flash version as small as 160K. (I have all the

graphics and audio imported but no animation (scaling, rotation) and it can

be comrpessed to ~150k.) I went thru the tutorial, samples, manual, but I

cannot figure out a way to sync voiceover with graphics. I need to have the

frame (still graphic) stay there until voiceover layer is done and it

continues to go to the next frame (or scene), or when the animation is

finished, it would stay at the end of the animation frame and wait for

voiceover to finish without going to the next sequence. How can I achieve

that, do I need to upgrade to Flash 3 to do that? Can I use CuePoint as I

can do sync in Director? If not, that's OK. I will just cut them into

multiple small segments if I can figure out a way to do what I describe above.


On compressing audio, should I import as 22/16 and let Flash compress it or

compress it first from SoundEdit 16? Does it make any difference?


Thanks for any suggestions,



Changhsu Liu

cpl874optimum [dot] com

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