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Nice example Liquid Blue! I would also add that a if a looped and shortened sound is used it will give a smaller file size.

really nice example though!

[Liquid Blue]

Thanks, I'm glad I could help. I also want to note that to get better quality out of your sound clips, you can always right click on them in the library menu, and go to properties. For compression, I usually use MP3, but I dunno one of the others might work for you. The thing here though, is that the better compression (quality) you have, the bigger the size of the sound clip, and your file overall. This is mainly an issue if you want things to load quickly and not take so long that 56k users get ADD and decide to look at something else.

The lowest quality I suggest, is 16 kbps. It's going to sound bad, but it will be quite small. Let's take the song I used above, Truth for example. At 16 kbps bit rate compression, the .wav size is 481.1 KB. At 160 kbps , the size is 4811.2 kbps. So you have a file size that can range from about 480 kilabytes, to almost 5 megabytes for the best quality. Just a little something to keep in mind. Also to note, the little quality tab, it has 3 options- Fast, Medium and Best. These aren't for the overall final sound, just the test sound. Fast will translate the sound at your decided speed the fastest way possible to get you to hear it, Best will take the longest but give you the best idea of what it will sound like.

[iKillburger]

Hope nothings changed since the old version of flash i used, but i always stuck my sound in its own movie object. Then u can easily stop, restart, and resynchronize sound using really simple actionscript

[Benno]

Benno, I am not trying to piss you off or be self centered, just realistic & practical. You do have valid points, yet the corporate outlook is somewhat different from your views. Should someone tell Chevrolet, Honda & VW to name a few, to stop using Flash as there may be a poor person in Uganda on a 28.8 modem that cannot connect to view their cars? Like these companies would care?

Again, no problem here using flash for what it's for. flashy displays to show off a product fine, but the trend is using flash where flash isn't the best solution. Worse yet, driving the internet into the dark ages of corporate dominance. Invasive flash ads that appear ON TOP of what I'm reading? no thanks.

java Applets....hmmm...Never noticed or wanted to see a site made entirely from Java Applets...didn't think you could do that...I should try that for the sake of it and I am not trying to be a jerk by saying that. Java Script i can see but applets...perhaps

Whats the differnce? All 3 mediums have the potential for frustrating experiences. Sites that take away my ability to resize the window are never visited twice by me. The same goes with most anoyances flash 'sites' tend to have, they drive some people away. If someone is looking for the specs on piece of hardware they are considering, what do they want to see, godawfull styleized text that they can't even select or search for or plain text?

I had the pleasure of assisting with the redesign of Globio as a student project a while back. The link currently leads to their old flash site, which makes it quickly apparent that an all flash site is going to work for a multi-language multi-topic educational site designed to make kids globally aware. It's a massive project that is being built to take advantage of flash but not rely on it as a crutch for a lack of scripting ability. The interactive map? flash. The encylopedia style meta data linked articles? not flash. Simple.

I did make mention of: If your still using a dial-up connection....well I guess you still eat at soup kitchens and live in a cardboard box over a street vent....unless your in bumf@*k land or at your parents mercy.
maybe the wording of bumf@*k land should have been said as "out in the rural tundra or physical location!"

Btw...you can get 2 way satellite for you computer and it close to the costs of having cable, as well as faster than cable. Just does not work well with TW or any arena in SS.

Acctually, no. Cloud cover and storms in the winter mess with my TV satalite, so I'm going to take the seasonal consistency of dial-up over satalites. I had comcast cable for a while too, but their service was horrible. But that really isn't the point. You post pretty liberal stuff on this forum, but concering the internet you're sucking the corporate teat? Many flash sites contribute to the information caste system that is developing. Even if food and water is taken care of, the internet as the last place for information equality is being turned into just another way to be blasted with ads and fuel consumerism. So really I'm not mad at flash (I've made lots of cool things in flash myself), but the type of sites it typically is used for. This isn't at all what the topic is about so I'll leave it at that.

OK here's one.

How the hell do I synchornize sound with my flash?

If you mean speech, I suggest you seperate each part into it's own file. Flash framerate playback can lag on slower machines, causing what is best known as the bad translation kung fu movie effect. Basicly, dont expect to be able to animate around a 10 second pause between two sounds on a clip thinking the 10 second animation sequence you made will be exactly 10 seconds for everyone.

If you want to use an external mp3 you could always do this:

mSound = new Sound(); 
function playSound(file){
		mSound.loadSound(file);
}

[Saturn V]

flash!