FLASH: audio question/flash 3

[Grimmwerks]

I have a client that is using Flash 3 still, and want to compress some 

audio loops they have from THEIR client as much as possible....I do a lot 

of audio with director and what I usually do is strip out the bandwith of 

the audio loops by ear and get the file to 5 khz (cd audio is 

44khz)...and usually these files sound great (bright, etc)...the client 

has been importing audio into flash 3 at 44khz and compressing down to 

11k with 4bit compression...


1). Is there a noticable difference between importing an already 

downsampled audio file or allowing flash to compress it? My gut says that 

Flash is merely stripping away bandwith at certain points, rather than 

'hearing' what to strip out (obviously)...but is there an advantage in 

file size to bringing in downsampled audio?


2). A lot of the audio loops are rock in nature, meaning 4 bar loops, 

where the first and third bars are the same - or even bars 1, 2 and 3 are 

the same and 4 is a keychange, etc.

My thought was to give 2 sections and have the flash guys build it up as:


 file1.aif, file1.aif, file1.aif, file2.aif


rather than file.aif --------------------> keeping the whole loop. 

However, it doesn't seem that this can be so seamless in flash...can 

flash play one file and then play the next without making the animation 

jagged? Perhaps creating a looping file as a symbol that is merely audio, 

no graphics? Does that sound insane?


Any tricks on the audio side would be appreciated.




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