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Published: 2007-02-22 01:01:14 +0000 UTC; Views: 29569; Favourites: 904; Downloads: 1398
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A tutorial on basic sound in Flash. Aimed at an outdated version of the software.Other tutorials:
Flash Animation Tutorial
Flash Custom Gradients Tutorial
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Why thank you. Glad to be of service.
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I've added your tutorial to an article called Weekly Flash tutorial roundup #2.
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Brilliant, thank you for linking back to the original here. :]
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thanks! I needed this for my project! ^^
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You are more than welcome. Hope the project goes well. :]
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ahihi...^^ thanks! It was a great help!
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Thank you very much for this! Ill be sure to try it out when I recover from my illness. xD
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You haven't been well? Are you doing ok?
Thank you - I'm more than happy to help when I can. I appreciate that you left a comment as well!
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Yeah, I've been running a fever, which feels really really bad. ;w; but im okay now! Thank you for asking. :3
Oh you're welcome. Im glad my comment meant something to you. xD
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Of course! Why wouldn't it? 
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Yeah, I hate getting sick. D: I feel so sluggish and useles. TAT;; Fevers are indeed nasty things. D: I hate it when my skin feels sensitive to anything it comes in contact with.
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Wait, do you have to make the video before you add the sound? Is that POSSIBLE to make?!
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-shot-
never mind. Figured it out. -_-"
THANKYOU!!1!!
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I have macromedia Flash Player 8 on a PC and I can't get ANY music on it...any suggestions?
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Hey, nice tutorial! I had a question about sound...
How do you get such good quality for your sound? My sound quality sounds okay when I play the file by pressing enter, but when I test it, the sound quality is horrible.
Does it have to do with the fact that I have Flash MX 2004, or is it something else?
Thanks!
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Hmmm I've noticed that the sound is fairly different when I preview the files to test. To check that's the actual quality of the final you might want to open up the .swf file in your internet browser to check.
Unfortunately that's something I've run accross too but I'm not any closer to understand what causes it. Possibly compression.
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Thanks for the reply, it's just unfortunate that my sound sounds so fuzzy in the actual swf... My voice sounds so different from what people actually hear me as. I mean, they're going to start thinking I have a lisp or something...
Oh, well. I'll figure it out someday. Thanks again for the reply!
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That title music is inexplicably cute and awesome.
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T^T I have Adobe ImageReady 7.0. . .Do you have any tutorials for that, or that you'd recommend?
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This was a lovely tutorial, in fact it was one of the best I've ever seen, and I collect them. It was fun to read and easy to understand.
I even tried to use it, but couldn't get past Step One.
You invited questions, so I would be more than grateful for any suggestions you can offer.
Before I say any more, I have a Mac. I also have Flash 4, so my menu items under File are slightly different from what you have here.
I have:
New
Open
Open as Library
Close
Save
Save As
Import (That's it. Import. No "Import to Library," nothing like that.)
Export Movie
Export Image
Publish Settings
Publish Preview
Publish
Page Setup
Print Margins
Print Preview
Print
Preferences
Assistant
Recent Files
Quit
Under the Libraries Menu item, it says "No Libraries Installed" even though I just MADE one.
There are no lessons OR samples for me to choose from, even though my version has both under Help.
Whenever I try to import ANY sound file, all I can get is this: "One or more files were not imported because there were problems reading them."
You'd think having a Mac would make adding sound easier, not hard/impossible, wouldn't you?
Thanks hugely for any help you can offer!
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Thanks for this tutorial! I learned a hell lot on how to set the end of the music..thanks a lot..^^
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thanks for making it, it really helped me
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No problem at all, glad to be of service.
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Cooliyo~ This will be very helpful to me~ <3
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how would i change a song my friend's band made into something i can put into flash?
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Ummm you'd have to make sure its a type of sound file Flash can work with. .mp3 and .wav should be safe but I can't remember off hand all the file types it supports.
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so a normal mp3 file should be fine to work with?
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when i import sound it says
one or more files were not imported because there were problems reading them
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Anytime, !Ebil. Thank you for a lovely comment.
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wOOOOOOOOww thanks a loooooooooooooot i love u for now!!! really THANK YOU !!
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I hope you are having a lot of fun with flash. Thank you again for such a lovely comment. ^_^
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Does it matter what layer you put it on?
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Not particularly, but its good practice AND a good idea to keep it on a separate layer from your animation or other elements as otherwise you can get into other problems later on.
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thank you so much for this tutorial! ^^ I have to do a flash project for my evil CTS teacher and this really helped alot!
I have another question though :/ When I play the movie , I have an intro animation that starts on its own and the sound plays when I start thee movie as well but then once it's done I used the action script to stop it [stop();] for the menu. I want the sound to continue even when it stops but I'm not sure how to do that... so if you can help me out I'd really be grateful
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What does CTS stand for? Computer Technology Studies?
Sorry its taken me a while to get back to you. I haven't been around DA properly for a wee while. I hope you have already found a solution but if not I hope the following proves helpful:
HMMMMM its been a while since I played around in flash but lets give this a go. If what I describe doesn't help try looking at some flash tutorials online; they should help you out a lot.
What you could do try is keeping that stop(); script that stops the sound before you hit the menu screen. Then at the menu screen, put a keyframe on a new layer at that point in the timeline. As in the steps 2-5 of this tutorial, put a sound clip on the keyframe.
The key part here is what you change the 'sync' option to. If you change it to 'event' I think the sound will only play as long as you are on that keyframe.
However if I am wrong, and it continues to play then copy the frame with the sound 'event' onto a new frame and change the sync to 'stop'. What this should do is stop the specified sound when the animation plays this frame.
Hope that helps. Let me know if it doesn't make sense.
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yeah, that's what it stands for xD I had to go to the website to check out what it means... half of the other students didnt know either.
And don't worry about it 
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Oh ok, no worries. I hope you got a good mark on your project.
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I have macromedia flash 2, and It doesn't say "Import to library" Too old, i guess?
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Heya Hinata. Sorry that it took me over a month to get back to your comment.
I haven't worked in older versions of flash but it could very well be that flash 2 doesn't have the 'import to library' option. However it may have an import version elsewhere for you to use, although I haven't played around with it to know.
That mightn't be very helpful for you - sorry. I hope you are able to find out though.
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it's okay^^
yeah, i found out that it doesn't, so i installed a newer version and it had it.
thanks though, the tutorial did really help me for the sound^^
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Oh, I'm glad that you were able to get the sound working in that newer version. I'm also glad that the tut helped you with that - I'm always glad to be of service.
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