-={ Flash Help }=- importing movies and sound properly
 

Hey im having troubles importing a movie with its sound into a flash movie viewer properly. Ive done this a few times with no problems. but now I try and import a movie. put it in place and when I export it. It comes out with the sound not matching the movie. Sorta like crappy subtitle movies...like an old schwarzenegger movie...

Ive tried changing the fps. but it still dosnt match correctly,

is there a way to alter the sound....or take the amount of frames and stretch the movie to fit?

any help?

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I better pull up some "hit it" pics... :disgust

What version of flash are you using?
What typs of videos are you importing?
What frame rates have you tried? I recommend 30fps and to avoid 12 and 24fps

Answer those Q's and I might have more input for you.

Macromedia FLASH 6.0

.wmv

ive tried all these.... 12, 24 and 30....

the sound never matches up

A lot of people do not know this about flash...

When you have a strict timeline (you have a 60 second presentation that needs to run precisely 60 seconds...at 30fps that's 1800 frames)...you might notice the movie runs long on the stopwatch. What happens is flash will play EVERY FRAME regardless of any outside variables (processor speed of the client machine, primarily) UNLESS you have a synching event on the timeline to force it to play a precise length. When you have a synching event, flash will drop frames to keep the movie in synch with that synching event.

So...what may be occuring in your case is the sound will always sound normal...but flash is playing EVERY FRAME of the visual movie. Since the client's processor cannot keep up with it (EVEN IF the movie is fully preloaded) the sound will "finish" before the visual movie.

What I would recommend is to put in a new layer in your timeline...then place a short snippet of sound that you alter by modulating the sound to essentially be muted on a keyframe in frame 1. Click on that in the timeline and go to the properties panel and select from the dropdown "Stream."

This should put you in synch. When your movie plays the sound will remain unaltered but the movie will drop frames to keep you in synch.

Good luck! :thumbsup

Thank you :) ill try this now.

answer me this if you can....is there a way...when I import the movie file, can I somehow split the sound and the movie itself into seperate layers..

and another since you seem knowledgeable...

can I take a movie layer that is say 700 frames....and somehow shrink it into 600, or stretch it to 800 frames, without losing any of the movie...same frame rate of course....


???

Where's all the mega-budget Hollywood movie savvy when you need it.

2hp

noshit... I did however find some classes close to me off of craigslist just now....seems to fit your descript.....

I don't know of a way to separate the visual from the audio in Flash itself.

Your second question about the frames doesn't make sense to me. The movie isn't editable on the timeline other than cutting it short by having fewer frames than actually required to show the full movie in Flash. And if you had more frames than neccessary without an empty keyframe at the end of the actual movie then you will get some anomolies in your playback.

you answered my questions reguardless of me making sense or not :winkwink:

I assumed this was the conclusion

thank you...

My pleasure...hope the info helps you out :upsidedow