Re: FLASH: Movie Clips and Sound HELP!

[Dave Hollinden]

Hi J,


It seems like you could do this with 3 MC's.  


MC1 has a keyframe labelled "start" with your ocean and gulls file, with

sync set to Event and set to loop a bunch of times, probably with a nice

fade in at the beginning.  It has another keyframe labelled "stop" with the

ocean and gulls file again, with Sync set to Stop.


MC2 has a keyframe labelled "start fadeout" with the ocean and gulls sound

again, with a short fade in and a nice fadeout, and set to loop just enough

times to last through the fade out.  Add 10 or 20 empty keyframes, then add

a keyframe with an action to TT MC1 to GOTO and Stop "stop", and an action

to Stop (to stop itself).


MC3 has a keyframe labelled "start" with the new sound set to loop a bunch

of times and with a nice fade in.


So you start out with a TellTarget to MC1 to GOTO "start" so that the ocean

and gulls file starts looping.  When the user clicks on the entry point,

send a TT to MC2 to GOTO and Play "start fadeout" so that another ocean and

gulls loop fades in, then TT's the original loop in MC1 to stop, and then

loops while it's fading out.  Also, on the user's click, TT MC3 to GOTO

"start" so that the new loop will fade in while the original one is fading

out (via MC2).


Add Stop actions, and use GOTO and Stop or GOTO and Start as appropriate,

and I think this ought to work.


Dave





At 07:52 PM 3/19/99 -0800, you wrote:

>Ok, I am bringing this to you as a last resort.

>

>I am trying to make sound cues.

>

>I have a movie clip that is playing the ocean and seagulls in the first

>part of the movie.  I have it set to loop until the visitor clicks on the

>entry point.  You then move in to the point you clicked on, and as it fades

>out, another image fades in behind it.

>

>For the new image, I want to have another movie (sound) clip play.

>

>

>I got all this to work ok, except for  a one frame delay in the paying of

>the second movie clip's sound.  (I was hoping for no lag in sounds, but I

>can't seem to get it)

>

>Since I need to stop the sound in the first movie clip, I set a stop all

>sounds targeting the first movie clip.  If I have the next movie clip in

>that same frame (not necessarily keyframe, but even on other levels) and

>the sound starts on the first key from of the second movie clip, then the

>sound will not play until it passes thru one loop.  So I moved the sound to

>the second frame of the 2nd MC.  This works ok, but I was really hoping for

>a smooth transition, as if they were a part of the same soundtrack.  (I

>know, one frame isn't that much, but I notice it)

>

>I hope this makes sense!  I have gone thru hundreds of email searching for

>possible clues, and trying all different ways. (moving MCs around, changing

>sync type in the MCs, creating a keyframe in the layer of the 1st MC and

>telling it to treat it as a Graphic!  Anything I could possibly dream up)

>

>Thanks in advance for your help.

>

>J


Dave Hollinden

Audio Engineer

Jet City Studios, Seattle

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

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