Re: FLASH: Lingo passed from Flash to Director

[Dave Hollinden]

At 12:59 PM 3/4/99 -0700, you wrote:

> It's generally better to have the audio in Director

>rather than in the SWF, because you have hi-fi, compression, and

>audio-blending. If you're in D6.5 and using Flash events to jump to other

>Director frames, then please check technotes for best handling.

>

>jd

>John Dowdell, Macromedia Tech Support, San Francisco CA US

>Search technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/search/

 

Hi John,


Tell me more about this, though, because I'm currently frustrated with

audio in Director.  We're developing a game in Director to accompany a bit

of Flash content.  With the lowest Shockwave audio compression setting

being 32kbits/sec in Director, all of the sound effects in the game that

don't require hi fidelity are much bigger in file size than they would be

in Flash.  I can't choose which ones get more bits and which get less as I

can in Flash with its individual export settings.  And Director has to stop

and think a bit whenever it performs audio-blending whereas Flash mixes

many tracks together on the fly without so much as a single pause.


I understand that I can export my sound effects from SoundEdit at lower bit

rates (8, 16 or 24kbps) and link them to Director as external cast members,

but our Lingo programmer says that the response will be sluggish since they

sound files will have to stream off the hard disk or over the Web.


So why you recommending Director for audio? Or am I missing the point.


Dave

Dave Hollinden

Audio Engineer

Jet City Studios, Seattle

dhollindenjetcitystudios [dot] com (mailto:dhollindenjetcitystudios [dot] com)

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