Flash CS3 sound tutorial
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Overview
This is part of Flash CS3 tutorials. Daniel K. Schneider 18:13, 9 September 2007 (MEST).
- Learning goals
- Learn how to use sound with Flash 9 (CS3) components
- Learn a little bit of Action Script 3
- Prerequisites
- Flash CS3 desktop tutorial
- Flash drawing tutorial
- flash layers tutorial
- flash button tutorial
- Moving on
- The Flash article has a list of other tutorials.
- Flash Video component tutorial
- Quality
- This text should technical people get going and may not be good enough for self-learning beginners. It can be used as handout in a "hands-on" class. That is what Daniel K. Schneider made it for...
- Level
- It aims at beginners. More advanced features and tricks are not explained here.
- Learning materials
Grab the various *.fla files from here:
- http://tecfa.unige.ch/guides/flash/ex/sound-intro/ (not yet sorry)
Basics
Sound types
Flash can handle several sound formats:
- AAC (Advanced Audio Coding):
- AIFF (Audio Interchange File Format)
- MP3 (Moving Pictures Expert Group Level-Layer-3 Audio)
- AVI (Audio Video Interleave)
- WAV (Waveform Audio Format)
(Some formats may depend on whether quicktime is installed)
Import sounds
Background sounds
- To import (small) sound files
- File->Import->Import To library
Attaching sound to a frame
- Create a new layer
- You can attach sound to any frame via the properties panel
- Select a sound from the sound pull-down menu
- Configure it in the same panel
Load sounds
var mySound:Sound= new Sound();
mySound.loadSound("track01.mp3" , true);
mySound.onLoad = function() {
mySound.start();
}
Links
Sound textures to download
- SimplyTheBest.net - MP3 sounds. This is a nice site. Ads are not annoying.