Improve Sound Quality

[thatrenowned]

I'm creating a Flash movie where the sound is quite possibly the most important part. When I preview it so far within Flash, the sound is fine, but when I export it, the sound goes really crappy.

I'm using WAVS, and tried all sorts of configurations for the sound's properties, e.g. setting it to MP3, 160 kbps and Best, but all of them seem to come out the same.

Does anyone know of a way I can improve the sound quality, because if I can't, the movie I'm producing is pretty pointless? :-(

 

[DJTN]

You need to make sure your setting the event and stream sound properties to the best.
Todd Norris
Hope this helps !

 

[thatrenowned]

What I've noticed so far is that I only seem to have this sound quality problem on my home computer. At home I run Windows 98 but on two other computers where they ran ME and NT, the sound was perfect. I'm running the same version of Flash as the other two computers, and I don't think its down to a crappy sound card because I'm using a SBLIVE! (they're not outstanding but they're certainly not crap).
When I run the exported file, it sounds like when you're watching one from the internet, so unless its just a Windows 98 thing...

 

[jbherdt]

I am a Mac guy, but I have also found that sound can come out crappy in the final file, which in my case were Projector files for Mac and PC. I found by personal effort and some gray hairs, that any long sounds set to Stream will not be good. I had to put the soundtrack in and mark it for Event. If my guess is correct, Stream breaks up the sound at the frame rate, whereas Event plays the sound independant of the frame rate, and sounds great. The trick you have to know is to use a stop sound action to kill the sound when you want to, or it will play to it's end even if someone navigates to another scene in the file.

 

[oldnewbie]

I haven't played that much with sounds, but I can say Win98 has nothing to do with your problem. I'm on Win98, and never experienced quality problems with sounds.
You can use the event setting or the stream one, but if your re-compress your .wav's sounds as Mp3's at 160 Kbps and Best quality + stereo, also make sure, you're not overriding those sound settings at 16 kbps + mono, for example, in the Publish settings, under the Flash tab.

Regards,

ldnewbie