Re: FLASH: clicks and ticks in flash playback

[Marc Hoffman]

At 09:44 AM 10/24/98 +0200, you wrote:

>

>Most of the times I have trouble getting clear music and sounds in flash

>playback. For example on the great and famous Gabo site, I get clicks and

>ticks already at the countdown numbers.

>

>

>Geoffrey

>


Hi Geoffrey,

Flash audio compression often introduces considerable distortion; it's one

of Flash's weaknesses and one reason why FlashPlayer is the preferred route

for combining Flash animation with quality audio -- Real Networks simply

has a better handle on audio compression.


I have not had your problem with Gabo's site, and my equipment is quite

similar to yours.  It may be that your volume is turned up too high on your

SB card -- try using the Windows Volume Control

(Start>Programs>Accessories>Multimedia>Volume Control) to turn it down.


I've had to deal with lots of reports of noisy sound on my DartFrog site;

most of the complaints were resolved when I used lower volumes in my source

files.  In my sound recording and editing program, I started normalizing at

75% instead of 97%, 'though I never experimented to find the optimal

levels. Then, in the Flash sound editing window, I try to keep the levels

about halfway up, never more than three-quarters up.  I still get some

complaints of noise instead of music, or of extraneous static, but most

people now have no trouble with my site.


Keep in mind that when analog sound levels overload, the distortion may be

acceptably subtle.  When digital sound levels overload, the distortion is

very obvious all at once. This can happen at the design end or at the user

end.





Marc Hoffman

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