COM184

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COM184

• Macromedia FLASH mx04
• Part 5 Sounds, publishing your movies,
• and the Get URL action

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Sounds in FLASH

• Imports .AIFF formats (Macintosh), .AU (Unix),
  .WAV formats (Windows/PC) and .MPG (Mpegs)
• Flash can only adjust the volume and clip the end
  off sounds
• All other edits have to be done outside of FLASH
• Try packages such as Goldwave (Shareware) or
  Sound Forge to edit Sounds on a PC
• Imported sounds are stored in the files library

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The Sound Sync Setting

• Event synchronises the sound to the occurrence of
  an event. An event sound plays when its starting
  keyframe is first displayed and plays in its
  entirety, independently of the Timeline, even if
  the movie stops.
• Start is the same as Event, except that FLASH
  will not start a new Instance of a start sound if
  that sound is already playing
• Stop silences the specified sound.
• Stream synchronises the sound for playing on a
  web site. Flash forces animation to keep pace
  with stream sounds.
• The sound is broken up into smaller clips and
  associated with frames in the movie

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Adding Sounds to Frames

• Import your sound clips into the movie
• File gt Import gt Import to library
• Ensure you have the Library window visible
• Windows gt Library
• Select the keyframe where you want the sound to
  begin
• Drag a copy of the sound clip you want from the
  library onto the stage
• Open the properties panel
• Set the sound sync property to start

Example com184flash5amx04.fla
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Stop example

• Set the sound sync property to stop

Example com184flash5bmx04.fla
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Adding Sounds to Buttons

• Create a button in the normal way
• Add an extra layer to the button (while in symbol
  editing mode)
• Add appropriate sounds for the mouse over and
  down states

Example com184flash5cmx04.fla
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Delivering Movies

• Shockwave FLASH format
• .swf file extension
• Export Bitmap formats,
• e.g. GIFs and PNG
• Export vector formats
• e.g. Adobe Illustrator
• Export to QuickTime or AVI
• QuickTime has excellent compression but sometimes
  fails to export sounds correctly in complex
  animations
• AVI poor quality and large file size
• Export to other Macromedia products
• Director, Authorware (Flash Extra required),
  Dreamweaver

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Delivering Movies
Each type of export has a number of options which
are all described in the Help System
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Get URL action
Load a specified URL into the browser
In this example a new Browser window is used
Example com184flash5dmx04.fla
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Tutorial

• Try all the examples shown in this presentation
• Try to create them first yourself !
• Add sounds to the buttons used in last weeks
  navigation framework
• Example com184flash5dmx04.fla
• Add sounds to the Ben the bee story
• Example com184flash5emx04.fla