Re: FLASH: Sound Doubles Movie Size...Help!

[David Gary]

Christopher Gray wrote:


> I am doing really nice animation, right? I don't want to cut back on the

> gradients or the drawing style or - anything visual for that matter. My

> weakness is sound FX and music. No...I can record great sounds, music

> loops, and fun voice overs, but when I import them into my movies the

> movies are at least DOUBLED in size. I'm frustrated and need help,

> Flash-friends...

> If it takes buying good Sound software, please advise as to what software

> that may be. I work off of a Macintosh G3, a cable modem and tons of

> memory. Somebody help me.

>

>


Hiya Chris,


Sound size is nothing new to the web, wav format even in low bit can wipe

out any hope you have of keeping file size down.


A couple of things to remeber when adding sound to you swfs.


First of all dont cut back graphic work in Flash3, i.e. gradients, etc.

Vector graphics created in Flash3 are extremely small and usually will not

effect size that much.


Pay attention the the wav files themselves. Importing in good quality and

cutting down to the impth degree in your sound editor before import will

help. Also, I sometimes import all sound FX closely nit together in wav

format into flash. In flash you can scroll audio bar to play only part of the

sound off the one imported wav. IOW, one sound effect can be manipulated in

Flash to sound like several different sounds for buttons etc. The audio

scroll bar is in between the left and right channel indicators in Flash's

audio window. Play with this bar.


HTH,


-DG-




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