hi,

wonder if it's possible to create a music video entirely in flash. if yes, how does the synch works between sound, video images (if any) and vectorial drawings.

I already program in actionscript, I'm also a graphic designer. and I mainly work on websites at the moment, but I would be interested in creating videos aswell.

thanks for replying

lizuka
http://lizuka.free.fr

synch in flash works by importing your sound onto main timeline and setting its behavior to "stream" - that way it gets embedded into the timeline and will sacrifice frames if need be to keep up with animation - make sure to use graphic symbols if animation needs to be in synch - and dont use scenes as you will not be able to stretch the song across scenes without a noticeable *glitch* in the audio - reason is you would have to edit where the song ends in previous scene and fudge it where it should start in following scene.


chris georgenes
mudbubble.com

thanks for your answer, I also would like to know if I need to set my movie at a specific size for it to appear properly on tv. I take it that my sound can't be compressed so I should use a wave instead of a compressed mp3 (?). I haven't found tutorials on the net about creating videos with flash. is it common. when I watch some music videos it looks like some of them are made with flash...

lizuka
http://lizuka.free.fr

there's a lot of flash being used for broadcast animation....
720x486 should be used for broadcast.
as far as audio format - if you are going to export from flash as a video sequence and then assemble your project on say an Avid - i recommend bringing MP3 format into flash to keep FLA size down - because you would want to delete the audio track before exporting - and once it's in your final post production editing program - i would then use an uncompressed stereo version of the audio and match it back up with the animation to achieve the best quality.

if doing it all in flash - use WAV or AIFF format 44.1 stereo.

chris georgenes
mudbubble.com