320kbps audio in SWF?

[Conal]

Hey, how do I get the best quality audio into a SWF? I've never managed to get complete clarity out of it.

[Conal]

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[dylan]

If you're using flash, the highest mp3 export setting for audio in an SWF is 160kbps. If you're wondering how to get to the settings, they're under:

- publish settings

- audio stream/event

- compression: mp3

- bit rate: 160kbps

[Conal]

At 8/2/13 04:16 PM, SafePlagiarism wrote: If you're using flash, the highest mp3 export setting for audio in an SWF is 160kbps. If you're wondering how to get to the settings, they're under:

- publish settings

- audio stream/event

- compression: mp3

- bit rate: 160kbps

What if I could side-step this issue? Flash plays high quality audio files in the audio portal. Can't I embed .mp3 or .wav files into a flash movie to play at the right frame?

[dylan]

At 8/2/13 04:26 PM, Conal wrote: What if I could side-step this issue? Flash plays high quality audio files in the audio portal. Can't I embed .mp3 or .wav files into a flash movie to play at the right frame?

There's nothing to sidestep. There's a difference between FlashPlayer and Flash.

FlashPlayer is playing a high quality WAV in the audio portal, but it wasn't exported from Flash as an SWF. It was exported from audio software like Audition or Audacity as a high quality audio file.

Flash is a software that was designed for creating interactive pieces/banners/ads/etc (and just so happens to be good software for animation because of this). It is not designed to export high quality audio. 160kbps is plenty good for an animation, though. Every animation you see in SWF format on this site is going to be at 160kbps.

If you desperately want higher quality, then convert your SWF to an mp4 through Swivel, and have it mix the audio from a high quality WAV file exported from a different software.

You can change the compression to something that's not lossy in Flash (e.g. RAW), but that will bump your file from 3-4MB all the way to 20+MB. Flash also simply doesn't export well at those levels and can mess up the sound terribly, especially if you don't know enough about how audio files work to choose the correct settings.

Basically, use 160kbps. It's perfectly fine.