Re: [Flashcoders] Help me disect some Flash work please?
I'm a programmer who would be relying on an art department to provide all the media, but I'm just not sure how to set it up... does this make sense? ...and being a programmer is why you don't know how to do it. :) I'm not sure anymore (too much of a programmer that shuns the timeline myself), but you can have sound on the timeline. You'll see the wave form on the timeline when you got it right, IIRC. That way, the framerate is enforced (the only way to enforce a certain framerate that I know of), meaning, the sound will play and frames are skipped if rendering doesn't keep up. So, there's not much to do for you. Odds are, if you tell the art department to have some sound on the timeline and then add synchronized animation to it, they'll automatically do it right without further instructions. This is classic Flash -- remember it used to be an animation tool and you need to be able to sync sound to an animation for it to be useful. The alternative probably would be to read the position in the clip and jump to the theoretical frame of the animation, or to have a FLV with metadata events at certain timestamps. Check out http://inlet-media.de/flvtool2. HTH, Mark On 5/30/07, LHWH Interactive [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: These three presentations really have nothing in common except a couple of things I'm trying to figure out, but haven't ever actually done before, so I'm kinda lost. What I'm most interested in is, how *technically* do they synchronize the sound so well to the animation? I notice that no matter what kind of connection you're on, they all seem to run pretty well, and seemed to be synchronized pretty well. Have they split the soundtrack into smaller chunks? Are they somehow using cuepoints and actionscript to direct the animation and timeline? In my head, I see the sound as a separate movieclip that's being loaded with actionscript, and then cuepoints in the audio are kicking the playhead forward thru an animation, then stopping the playhead to wait for another cue. Am I close? How would you set these up, technically speaking, from a production standpoint? Please, I know the design of them is all over the map, and I'm aware that there's actual video (greenscreened) in one, but generally, they all seem kinda like the same beast. Has anyone put together one of these sort of powerpoint-y presentations using flash with a voiceover track and synchronized animation to it? What pitfalls and advice could you offer? I'm fairly good at general Flash, and I don't think this is beyond my realm of work in Flash. I'm a programmer who would be relying on an art department to provide all the media, but I'm just not sure how to set it up... does this make sense? Below are three of these types of presentations that I was just randomly able to locate, but this is almost exactly what we want to try... http://www.dv3productions.com/E2IT/ http://software.emc.com/products/software_az/replistor.htm (on this page, click on the orange box labeled View product demo) http://www.angelvisiontech.com/ ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Help me disect some Flash work please?
The first one is different from the other 2. First one uses real video, converted to FLV (you can grab the FLV file from your browser cache). Or grab it here: http://www.dv3productions.com/E2IT/E2IT_INTRO_w_audio7.flv The others are more powerpoint-type animations, which you can either create in Flash (using the timeline and streaming sound) or use one of the many tools out there to create these kind of presentations. Captivate http://www.adobe.com/products/captivate/ Camtasia http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.asp etc.. - Original Message - From: LHWH Interactive [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 5:24 PM Subject: [Flashcoders] Help me disect some Flash work please? These three presentations really have nothing in common except a couple of things I'm trying to figure out, but haven't ever actually done before, so I'm kinda lost. What I'm most interested in is, how *technically* do they synchronize the sound so well to the animation? I notice that no matter what kind of connection you're on, they all seem to run pretty well, and seemed to be synchronized pretty well. Have they split the soundtrack into smaller chunks? Are they somehow using cuepoints and actionscript to direct the animation and timeline? In my head, I see the sound as a separate movieclip that's being loaded with actionscript, and then cuepoints in the audio are kicking the playhead forward thru an animation, then stopping the playhead to wait for another cue. Am I close? How would you set these up, technically speaking, from a production standpoint? Please, I know the design of them is all over the map, and I'm aware that there's actual video (greenscreened) in one, but generally, they all seem kinda like the same beast. Has anyone put together one of these sort of powerpoint-y presentations using flash with a voiceover track and synchronized animation to it? What pitfalls and advice could you offer? I'm fairly good at general Flash, and I don't think this is beyond my realm of work in Flash. I'm a programmer who would be relying on an art department to provide all the media, but I'm just not sure how to set it up... does this make sense? Below are three of these types of presentations that I was just randomly able to locate, but this is almost exactly what we want to try... http://www.dv3productions.com/E2IT/ http://software.emc.com/products/software_az/replistor.htm (on this page, click on the orange box labeled View product demo) http://www.angelvisiontech.com/ ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Help me disect some Flash work please?
On 5/30/07, Muzak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The others are more powerpoint-type animations, which you can either create in Flash (using the timeline and streaming sound) So you're on the same page as Mark, above? embed the sound directly into the timeline and just animate around it? When the soundfile says, It's Quick, It's Easy... or something along those lines, you'd just animate your text to appear in time with the timeline? How can I be sure that... okay, let's say at some point in the voiceover, like above, there's a certain phrase you wanna animate against. Let's say for the sake of argument it's a point where he/she says something like, It's cheap, it's easy, and best of all, it'll save you money! and you want those words to appear, then fade away, then appear, then fade away, all synchronized to the voiceover track. It's as easy as both of you are saying? Just drop the sound track into the timeline and animate? Let's say for the sake of argument, that the soundtrack is two, or three minutes long... do you break up the file into smaller chunks? Or is it okay to just import the whole sound at once? What are the drawbacks/benefits to doing it either way? It sure sounds like I'm just overthinking it... what with cuepoints, actionscripting and the like. It sounds more and more like it's just your basic, average, timeline based presentation that's about 4000 frames of animation and timeline mess. Maybe a pain to keep track of, but little to no programming Am I on the right track? ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
