Has anyone done a Music Video with Flash 1

[Kirderf]

hi Guys,
I see all these great flash animations with streaming music
that is in-Sync. I wonder how they do it? I want to do it. I have tried to import songs and animate to them, but it is really a daunting task.
If anyone has ever tried this, could you give me a few pointers.

Kirderf

 

[oldnewbie]

If your takin' something like this:

http://www.shockwave.com/bin/shockwave/entry.jsp?content=regurge01

or these:

http://www.hhsband.atfreeweb.com/Flash_Music.htm

Yeah! It can be done! But I'd start off right away! Many long nights of tearing your hair out await you!
What are you waiting for?

;-)

 

[Kirderf]

Yep, thats cool stuff. I just wish there was some notes on synchronizing the animation to the wav file. I spent 2 weeks on an animation that played fast on some computers and slow on others. (was running at 30fps)I found that running at 12 fps really helped sync some things up, but there is still a difference on different computers.
I had to clip all the voice parts out and run a wav clip in the background. I had to loop the background wav because it ended faster on some computers than others. The voices i cliped and pasted in place.
*But with a music wav, there is no cutting and pasting words. they are all in the song.
THere must be a science to it, and I think macromedia should have some idea that we would try something like this, and if they could just have it in a chapter of their tutorial, I would be more than excited.....
I see it being done, maybe there is a guru who has torn his hair out somewhere out there. i have pulled enough of mine here to know I should get some advice... but where?

 

[Dannybe2]

I think it's a great idea - I saw one of Lip Bizkit a while ago that worked really well, although it wasn't in-sync. As you said Kirderf, the running speed of the computer varies a lot. Try Windows Media Player files (.wma) they are a lot better quality and a lot faster loading than .wav files, and easy to create with Windows Media Encoder from .mp3 files. I have tried a few ways round and it works quite well on varying speeds!

 

[Kirderf]

Thanks for the tips; however, I seem to have a problem importing the .wma file into flash 4.
Is there a trick to that?
I get a message that the file type is not recognized and would I like to import it as an embedded object.
Thanks for the help!
I am anxious to try it.

 

[oldnewbie]

Have a look at this one:

http://www.xdude.com/flashed2.htm

...seems to keep it's sync pretty good!

;-)