Hi, I'm doing something very similar right now, although trying to keep the animations as "un-nested" as possible. I can't explain the intricacies of an FLV but I think you need to look at an external FLV like it's a streaming sound and not really tied to the timeline, or it plays above the timeline, that's what i tell my PM. So your animations will end up lagging behind it. We paid $60 US for captionate (http://buraks.com/captionate/), and each fla has a base mc on the main timeline which houses an flvplayback component and animations that span the length of the video, initial setup was exactly like yours, import video embedded and audio for animation matching, dump both for final. For each major animation sequence we have a frame label, "one", "two", "three"... then we use a jsfl script to puke out the frame labels and their corresponding times and captionate to fill the flv full of those labels and times via cue points. the base mc is linked to a class which reads in those cue points and jumps to the specific frame labels dependant on where the flv video is. So depending on how animation intensive a file may be i may have roughly 20-30 frame labels for a 2 minute video. Once you get 1 setup it can be pretty automated beyond that, outside of the monotonous production work for the animations. There are times where I do have to tweak times a little in captionate if something has to be spot on but it's usually pretty close.
Embedding wasn't an option as the swf really seemed to take a performance hit in the end no matter how miniscule the animations were. hope this helped some, Dunc On 1/27/06, kris lane - subtle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm working on a intranet project full of about 14 sections with a > FLV video synchronised to an animation. > > Initially when we started animating - we embedded the FLV file on the > timeline with a MP3 track so we could organise the correct times for > animations to trigger - Due to multiple people working on the project > a lot of the animations are nested and triggered by actionscript > calls. When i convert the video to a external FLV (with a 5 sec > buffer) the performance and sync of the video doesn't work. It will > drift out of sync. > > For example, if you play it on a Mac (G5, with either flash 7 or > flash 8 plugin) the video with play at the correct speed (25fps) but > the animation will play at about 12-16fps. On a PC depending (2.4 > Ghz) the animation will keep in sync but on a 1.8Ghz it will drift > behind (although not as much as the mac) > > An example can be seen at http://www.subtle.co.nz/telecom/ i have > posted both the version with an embedded SWF and the external FLV > version. > > We are still optimising all the file sizes - Macromedia says that you > shouldn't really embed long video on the timeline but flash will only > really drop frames when the flv is embedded. > > Is there any way of alleviating this? > > Cheers > > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > [email protected] > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
