Voice techniques

[Roe-Sharp]

Ok, so I just started and flash and I'm working on a prototype for the first episode of the series I'm planning. No, I'm not submitting it to the portal, it's just for practice until I'm comfortable that I can make a decent animation.
I've been going by tutorial to tutorial and gone through plenty of lip-syncing tutorials and fount a style I like and did a scene with it. After that exercise I have three questions about using voice sound-clips.

1) Where would be the most convenient place to put the voice sound clip for lip-syncing?
2) Should I cut the sound clip into individual sentences?
3) Where would be the most convenient place to put the voice sound clip for saving space?

1) For my video, I put my voice sound-clip in a layer of the main timeline and I put the mouth in a separate layer of the main timeline. I was wondering if this is acceptable, or if it would be better to do it a different way.

2) The voice sound-clip was about 19 seconds long consisting of about 3 sentences. Listening to that same 19 second sound clip over and over and over again just blew my freaking mind. Just to see how one word fit I had to go through that whole sound clip. Is it conventional to separate the voice sound-clips into single sentences?

3) And the prototype flash is getting very large. It's already 1.14 MB in just over 1 minute. Because of that I'm starting to look into ways on how to limit how much space I use and get as much use as I can out of the 10 MB limit I have to work with.

Thanks for your help.

[Sacros]

everything is pretty much a matter of taste and convienience, ive seen ppl like jazza putting the sound clips inside the mouth symbol he is lipsyincing but all that stuff regarding place is just a matter of how good it works for you, so its personal stuff, there are some standard methods its sometimes best to stick to other than that, place is up to ya

as space goes, well, there is actually compression for flash, look it up on the publishing settings tag but dont worry too much about space, one of the heaviest parts of a flash file is the sound so even if you just barely animated anything the sound is all there, but dont worry, animation is ussually surprisingly light. Also you dont say if you are talking about the .swf or the .fla, im guessing its the swf but as said, dont worry about space just yet. As placing sound for space, well, regardless of how you put it in there, its always gonna wheight the same unless you compress/lower the quality/change the format/do some magic

[SirAlex]

At 8/6/11 09:59 PM, Roe-Sharp wrote: Ok, so I just started and flash and I'm working on a prototype for the first episode of the series I'm planning. No, I'm not submitting it to the portal, it's just for practice until I'm comfortable that I can make a decent animation.
I've been going by tutorial to tutorial and gone through plenty of lip-syncing tutorials and fount a style I like and did a scene with it. After that exercise I have three questions about using voice sound-clips.

1) Where would be the most convenient place to put the voice sound clip for lip-syncing?

any where is fine it could be in the symbol with the lipsyncing or outside on the main time line

2) Should I cut the sound clip into individual sentences?

well you could but it would greatly cause confusion if a sound clip is in the wrong order

3) Where would be the most convenient place to put the voice sound clip for saving space?

Where you put the clip will not change the size.

1) For my video, I put my voice sound-clip in a layer of the main timeline and I put the mouth in a separate layer of the main timeline. I was wondering if this is acceptable, or if it would be better to do it a different way.

It's alright but It would be better if the lip syncing would be in the character's head symbol

2) The voice sound-clip was about 19 seconds long consisting of about 3 sentences. Listening to that same 19 second sound clip over and over and over again just blew my freaking mind. Just to see how one word fit I had to go through that whole sound clip. Is it conventional to separate the voice sound-clips into single sentences?

I answered that already

3) And the prototype flash is getting very large. It's already 1.14 MB in just over 1 minute. Because of that I'm starting to look into ways on how to limit how much space I use and get as much use as I can out of the 10 MB limit I have to work with.

try not to use Movieclips as the add memory

Thanks for your help.

your welcome

Look at this video for help (I know it's about timing but it has many features)