Sound and Synchronization

You can give your movie added appeal by including a sound track, a voice-over, ambient noises, or other sounds.

With Macromedia Director MX 2004, you can control when sounds start and stop, how long they last, their quality and volume, and several other effects. Using Macromedia Shockwave Audio, you can compress sounds for easier distribution and stream them from an Internet source. You can also incorporate Windows Media Audio (WMA) in your Director movies.

The media synchronization features in Director let you synchronize events in a movie to precise cue points embedded in sound.

Sound makes significant demands on a computer's processing power, so you might need to manage sounds carefully to make sure they don't adversely affect your movie's performance.

Scripting gives Director more flexibility when playing sound and can help overcome performance concerns. You can use it to play sound in ways not possible with the Score alone. Using Lingo or JavaScript syntax, you can do the following:

• Turn sound on and off in response to movie events.
• Control sound volume.
• Control the pan of a sound relative to the pan of a QuickTime VR movie. (For more information about using video and QuickTime VR in Director, see Using Digital Video.)
• Control the sound in a Windows Media Audio file.
• Preload sound into memory, queue multiple sounds, and define precise loops.
• Synchronize sound and animation precisely.

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