RE: FLASH: Huge music files in flash

[Eric Stewart]

Todd wrote:

Problem 1.  The wav file is huge!  Thank goodness Flass compresses it to MP3

Problem 2.  The song is longer than the video clip.  When the video clip

reaches its end, it restarts.  When it does, it starts a new instance of the

song which playes over top of the first instance .. very ugly sounding.


Todd,

	Your problem is two fold. I believe, and I don't know for sure because you

haven't put it up to look at, but you probably don't have, and definitely do

need a preloading page. Here is a good tutorial for that

http://www.flashkit.com/tutorials/in_pload/tute_preloader.shtml Next, I

would recommend putting the sound and the video on different movies. If you

build the preloader correctly, it will load both the video and the sound

before it starts playing. Lastly, you must put a Stop action on the last

frame of the video if you don't want it to loop. Hope this helps.

Eric Stewart

ceoarisstudios [dot] com

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