looking for ideas to show subtitles while sound is playing

[fiuPikeOY]

Hello,

Does anybody have any ideas on how to show subtitles while a narrator's sound is played. reading the text dynamically from a text field or something. I only have space to display about 2 lines at a time.

Any ideas?

Thank you

 

[frozenpeas]

If it's a timeline based sound, I would probably store all of the text in separate variables at the beginning of the movie.

i = 1;
subtitle1 = " Mr. Martin bought the pack of Camels on Monday";
subtitle2 = "night in the most crowded cigar store on Broadway.";
subtitle3 = "It was theatre time and seven or eight men";
subtitle4 = "were buying cigarettes.";

Then on the timeline with the sound, cue each subtitle when you need it (displaying it in a dynamic textfield):

textDisplay.text = eval("subtitle"+i);
i++;

If you need to clear the field for a pause in the narration, go:

textDisplay.text = "";

Something like that should do.

frozenpeas

 

[oldnewbie]

Sound's Sync should be set to "stream"... Then based on the sound's modulations for cues, simply set a textfield's text or variable on the appropriate starting frame until the next cue...

subtitle.text = "whatever text...";
//or...
subtitle_var = "some other text...";



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[frozenpeas]

Spreading the text across the timeline like that will be more cumbersome to manage if changes need to be made. With the idea I posted, I was trying to store all the text in one place. Both work fine, depends what you're after.

frozenpeas