Flash...mp3 or .wav?
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I have to do a flash animation with a voice over(approx. 2-3 min). The audio plays straight through from beginning to end.
What type of file is the best quality lowest file size ? .wav?
What sound setting should i use?
Speech at 22khz? Can i do any compression in sound forge before importing into flash?I don't know much about audio, sorry! Any input would help, Thank You!
*Where you at JazX? :)
- unfittoprint0
The results I have importing wav into flash are better than with mp3, the synchronization is much better.
but I'll leave the specs with our soundman extraordinaire, JazX...
where u at?
- Bio0
ive had to do something similar before.
there may be a better way to do this since i am no flash whiz, but after i edited the audio file, i exported as a wav and imported into flash. i dont recall exactly setting i used, but you can drop quality for speech pretty damned low and still have it come out alright. so 22khz might sound just fine.
one way or another, if you are using embedded audio for 2-3 minutes, your filesize is gonna be decently large.
make sure you get all the hissing and popping out in soundforge so it doesnt come back to haunt you. hissing and popping takes up space just like the vocals, though to a much lesser degree. you might not be able to tell a difference in the filesize depending on how bad the static is, but then again you might. and every byte helps. right?
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- bug0
you guys rock...
thanks for the info.is there anything else i should look out for?
and you say that if it's embedded it will be a large file size(which is understandable) is there a better alternative? streaming won't work cause the voice audio has to match up with the animation, right?
- Bio0
if it has to match up, then i would definitly set it to stream within the file. you might run into some problems with slower modems (28.8k modems) but i doubt that will matter to you. those folks probably wont be looking at your animation anyway, but i have found that low quality streaming audio becomes choppy on slower connections. (my folks have 14.4 modem, so they dont go to my site very often. haha)
my advice is really just to play with some of the lower quality export settings and see which is the best for filesize and sound quality. if you've got a good recording, then you might could drop the quality down an extra notch or so, where as you probably shouldnt if your recording is already kinda rough.
JazX is the man to ask, no doubt, but these are my thoughts and experiences.
- bug0
thanks bio, yer always helpful.
- Bio0
anytime p-snack.
=p
- bug0
where the hell is JazX when ya need'em?
dammit JazX, stop wasting yer time working and let's get NTing!
(^_^)
- ********0
use .wav
- ********0
Hee hee thanks you guys anyway. they covered it pretty well man. Using .wav will enable you to loop things, but you sound like, no pun intended, you are going to be just using a one-timer fade-in/fade-out sound sequence. Stick with .wav for clearity and Flash does seem to compress it even better than .mp3. Good Luck ;) You can do a ton of things with Sound Forge as well, such as 'wavehammering' it (compressing it in a good way, ie, mastering it for 16-bit). Go to Effects ->Wavehammer -> drop-downmenu -> Master for 16-bit. That will help your sound out ;)
- bug0
aaaahhhhhhh...
now i feel better!
Hooray for JazX.thnks all.
*knots
- ********0
cheers dude ;)