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Star syndicate does that very often >=(

At 1/28/05 05:25 PM, wismty wrote: Star syndicate does that very often >=(

OMFG big file size = good movie XD

Converting from MP3 to wav definitely does the job. I have a program called shuffler converter.
Another program that is good which i use is Cool Edit Pro. Cool Edit Pro.. a person can remove some of the audio and make it shorter.. a person could also make a song loop instead of the full length. It's nice that there's now a page on audio tips.

At 1/28/05 05:26 PM, BonusStage wrote:

At 1/28/05 05:25 PM, wismty wrote: Star syndicate does that very often >=(

OMFG big file size = good movie XD

That's why always fifien!

At 1/28/05 05:34 PM, RageVI wrote: "Make sure you have optimized your audio! Click this (link) if you don't know how!" .. or something

Agrees. I was hoping for more exciting news myself. : (

Who here actually uses the 'speech' compression for voice acting? I usually use .mp3 compression instead, just wondering...

I tried submitting an WAV entry lately, but an error appeared saying it's not WAV or MP3. So I converted it to MP3, and it still won't submit, giving me the same error message.

At 1/28/05 05:25 PM, wismty wrote: Star syndicate does that very often >=(

Star Syndicate isn't as bad as the people who make Mystic Kisses, when it comes to audio optimization. Each and every one of them is at least 3 megs and all that it is, is one tween, which takes more than a minute to load with my broadband.

It's really infuriating that some people ignore the audio optimization altogether simply to annoy the viewer. They aren't newbs, and would easily know how to compress the audio. And it's always just a crappy flash that gets mass-voted / protected by idiots past the judgement.

I loved the bit at the end about giving free advertising to an industry that doesn't care about you.

NG Audio Portal = Win

Noticed on alot of new stuff the audio has been set to EVENT, instead of STREAM, too. Adds to the filesize and screws up syncing ...

At 1/28/05 05:44 PM, Aapo wrote: Star Syndicate isn't as bad as the people who make Mystic Kisses, when it comes to audio optimization. Each and every one of them is at least 3 megs and all that it is, is one tween, which takes more than a minute to load with my broadband.

It's really infuriating that some people ignore the audio optimization altogether simply to annoy the viewer. They aren't newbs, and would easily know how to compress the audio. And it's always just a crappy flash that gets mass-voted / protected by idiots past the judgement.

Well said. I couldn't have put it better myself. The Syndicate stuff has actually improved a lot recently... usually 4 (albeit crappy) movies for under 2 Mb. It's the Piconjo-related shite that's the worst - and it's done on purpose, because they know that there is a percentage of NG viewers who won't even download the whole thing before voting 5, based on the list of other submissions. Second worst are the complete Flash newbs - it would be nice if they read this thread, but I'm not even convinced that the majority of them even know how to read... they certainly don't know how to write or draw.

At 1/28/05 05:23 PM, WadeFulp wrote: Attention all Flash artists! We've noticed a lot of entries that are very well done, but very poorly optimized. Please take time to optimize your work to keep the file size down. Keeping the file size to a minimum will allow more people to view your work and will reduce the load on our bandwidth. Please review this page on audio optimization tips:

audio optimization is good cept in amyn cases in my movies its ruined the effect i was trying to have by creating a softer or weaker sound. :(

I guess you do need more optimised entries, seeing as how that 50 mpbs or something limit is starting to interfere cause of more popular large movies.

eitherway, I seriously don't get why people don't read the small print, but how can you miss the large print that says optimise your audio on the submission page?!

and another thing,

At 1/28/05 05:25 PM, wismty wrote: Star syndicate does that very often >=(

too true, they submit like 3mb of crap like everyday, if the entry is good I wouldn't mind, but today almost all or maybe even all parts where done by threestar and already submitted, lazy.

my suggestion is that you just lower the maximum limit a Megabyte or two & make them break up their huge assed files into smaller parts.

I downsized my audio and people complained for poor quality. I upgraded the sound and people complained for filesize. There's no way to win.

At 1/28/05 06:38 PM, Painbringer wrote: Or better yet, limit the filesize for new artists to 1 meg, and have it increase with batting average.

Hmmm, quite a cool idea, but could offend some artists who are established on other sites but new to NG - to the extent of them not submitting here - eg: brokensaint69

At 1/28/05 05:28 PM, wismty wrote: That's why always fifien!

OMFG mass voter ):<

At 1/28/05 05:34 PM, RageVI wrote: When I saw a news post that began with the word "Audio", I got all excited. But audio optimization is not exciting!

Heh what a surprise...you see an audio topic and zoom right to it...

If I ever make a flash movie Wade...I promise I will optimize it :)

Off topic time!

Wade, why don't you respond to emails anymore? :'[

i have an idea ppl, there shall be 2 newgrounds this one, were authors submit maxed out 70mb submissions with surround sound high octane 3d vector graphics and ,crap grounds were the same movies are there but optimized to the point of no distinction i would be going to crap grounds considering i have like a 56k connection lol

I always vote 2 points lower than I normally would if the audio is too heavy. So if a short movie is over 2Mb because of the audio, and I think it deserves a 2, I'll give it a 0. People need to realized what a waste of bandwidth it is to leave the audio unoptimized or make the flash uncompressed.

At 1/28/05 08:05 PM, TheShrike wrote: I always vote 2 points lower than I normally would if the audio is too heavy. So if a short movie is over 2Mb because of the audio, and I think it deserves a 2, I'll give it a 0. People need to realized what a waste of bandwidth it is to leave the audio unoptimized or make the flash uncompressed.

Heh. Glad I'm not the only one that does that.

At 1/28/05 08:30 PM, WadeFulp wrote: I get a lot of emails and I have a lot of other things to keep up with.

You should hire a secretary!