flash with sound

[Guest_imported]

I am creating a series of movies - a kitchen portfolio - the url is

http://www.hdr-designs.com/flash/html/bkb/bkb.html

I now want to add sound-record a person's voice that will talk about the kitchens throughout the movie.

What is the best way to do this, adding as little file size as possible to my already large movies.

I have a sound recorder on my pc that creates wav files that i can import into flash but the files are huge...

please give me your ideas...thank you.

 

[oldnewbie]

Re-compress the wavs to Mp3 before/after importing them in Flash. Play with the bit rate setting until a good combination of file size + sound quality!

Regards,

 

[wangbar]

If synchronisation isn't critical you could even load the sound as a separate .swf file in frame 1 of your movie. Set the sound to stream...

If you've broken your movie up into separate scenes this might be the only way to go. Slainte

http://www.wangbar.co.uk

 

[Guest_imported]

Is MP3 the same as MPEG Layer3. I have an option in sound recorder to save as MPEG Layer3.

When I save as this, the extension is still .wav

Is something going wrong?

 

[oldnewbie]

Import it as a wav in Flash. Re-Compress it then to Mp3 in Flash. Double click the wav in the library, change the default to Mp3 and try different bit rates. Test!

Regards,

 

[Guest_imported]

ok.thanks

 

[Guest_imported]

With file types, like MP3 or wav, can all computers play these sounds? as long as the viewer has speakers. or does the viewer need some kind of player downloaded etc. to have the capability to hear MP3 or wav files??