Flash and sound

[drdalet]

Hi there.
I am new at making flash movies, but I tried something in Flash 5 to put on my website. There are 6 textlayers, a photo and music.
Now I made the letters synchronize to the music and when I play it in Flash 5, it is perfect.
But if I render it - make a .swf movie - sound and image are are not synchronized at all: it's definitely not WYWIWYG.
It seems Flash 5 is not up to it, but I have seen movies where images are perfectly synchronized to the musictrack.
Am I doing something wrong?

[jezra]

What synchronization are you using for your audio clip? I believe the default of Flash 5 is an "event" sound. With an event sound, the movie will get to a frame with audio in it and begin playing the audio independent of the movie. Setting the syncronization to "steam" should slice up the audio into chunks for each frame that the audio encompasses and should force the audio chunk to play at that particular frame. Anyway, select the keyframe with your sound file in it, in the sound properties panel, set the synchronization to stream. I hope this helps
jezra

[drdalet]

Thanks a lot, Jezra - this was indeed the solution. Of course the soundquality of the music has suffered from it, but it is synchronized now and it is easier to edit too.

[jezra]

In the "Publish setting" dialog box, when you select the "Flash" tab, you will have the option to change the audio setting for Event and Stream sounds. By default, the Steam sound setting is set to a poor quality, high compression format. You may want to fiddle with the setting until you get your sound to acceptable levels. Just remember that if the sound is high quality, the file size might be too large to stream to dialup users.
jezra