sounds playing too early

[leoZ]

I've encountered this problem many a time before and I want to get to the bottom of it.

I've cobbled together a small animation using 1 sound which comes up twice in the timeline in order to illustrate my problem.

Here is the timeline and stuff:

http://www.leo-stuff.com/timeline1.JPG


The problem is when i come to exporting the flash movie, the second sound comes in way too early as you can see in this swf:

http://www.leo-stuff.com/ep.swf

In fact, in order to get the sound to come in at the right time, I have to move it along in the timeline way after the animation it is supposed to be corresponding to has happened like this:

http://www.leo-stuff.com/timeline2.JPG

which is rediculous i'm sure you'll agree.

could someone tell me where I've been going wrong all this time? Thanks.

[cancerinform]

The best is to manipulate the sound by actionscript using attachSound.

[leoZ]

you're going to have to explain that, animation is my trade not as :/

[cancerinform]

In the library click on your sound and give it linkage id. Give it a unique name. Then on the timeline when you want to play the sound you add a script like this:

var my_sound:Sound = new Sound();
my_sound.attachSound("soundid");
my_sound.start(0, 1);

[leoZ]

would i be able to hear it in the timeline for lip syncing? I'm guessing I wouldn't... but i'll try that out later, thanks.

[cancerinform]

lip synching

http://www.flashscript.biz/MX2004/speech/speech.html

[leoZ]

I appreciate your help but is there any way to solve this problem without using action script and downloading programs and things? I am (laughingly) an animator and I can't be doing with this faffing about.

I'm going to try adjusting the sound properties see if that does anything. I've managed to solve this problem in the past just by fiddling about...

[rdoyle720]

Do you have your sounds set to "Stream"? Click on the sound and look in the Properties Panel. If it's set to "Event", try setting it to "Stream".

[leoZ]

it's stream.

i just set them to event and now they're playing at the right time, which is not ideal for lip syncing but at least it works.

[liyen]

In the library click on your sound and give it linkage id. Give it a unique name. Then on the timeline when you want to play the sound you add a script like this:

var my_sound:Sound = new Sound();
my_sound.attachSound("soundid");
my_sound.start(0, 1);

halo, i'm flash newbie...

wanna find out... the above sound id is it the name of the sound file that i imported to the library? so it will look like below rite?

my_sound.attachSound("effect.mp3");

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p/s: I know what's the id already...

=)

[cancerinform]

if effect.mp3 is the sound id, right. However, I usually give a different id from the file name, for example effect in this case.