Synchronizing sound and animation

Hi All..
I have an animation of a swinging sign that is accompanied by a squeaking/swinging sound that is loaded externaly.. What I would like to do is go a step further and synchrinize the sound with the swinging sign.. Can someone please point me in a direction of where I should look? I've seen some tutorials about synking imported sound with animation - but is there a way to also synk an external sound? Thanks so much ahead of time!

you can't sync a loaded sound and animation unless you load your sound BEFORE your animation appears. or, at least, before the part of the animation that needs sound appears.
so, either don't load a sound that needs to be sync'd or use code to ensure loading is complete before the corresponding animation is displayed.

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Hello all,
I have a peculiar request. ...
I have a sound file (about 137KB) and an animated gif (about 134KB).
I would like to use this as my splash window before my app starts up.
I know how to load these 2 to a screen but my problem is how do I synchronize the sound to go along with the image when it starts up? (Its a gunshot sound, whcih is looped with the animated image showing the bullet holes ;-)
I've been investigating using the Timer class but no success to date.
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This is actually pretty involved...
Are you using java.applet.AudioClip to play the sound? Are you loading the animated gif as a JLabel or something using ImageIcon?
If you are using AudioClip for the audio, I suggest that you cache the sound and image before playing the sound... otherwise you'll probably hear pops or the sound will pause. To cache the sound, do this:
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It seems like the best thing to do is to break up the animated gif into frames (either put each frame in its own file, or place each frame into one large image file and use clip rectangles to retrieve frames) and handle the animation yourself with your own thread. Alternatively, you can use the GifDecoder utility available at http://www.fmsware.com/stuff/gif.html, but be careful when using GifDecoder, it eats up a lot of memory for larger Gif files. When you handle the animation yourself, things should work properly. Again, make sure to cache the images by doing something like:
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Once everything is preloaded, things should be pretty much synchronized if you play the sound and then show the image.
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My computer keeps doing the usb sound and freezes

My computer keeps doing the usb plug and unplgu sound, and when it does, the computer freezes. I have tried update all drivers, and run one-key recovery but nothing helps. The system event logs only show one error:
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I understand what you mean about the sound now. I was thinking of something else. Sorry for the mis-understanding.
Are these errors showing up in the System Event Log happening repeatedly ? If there is just one or two of the same error showing up during the session you are on the computer that maybe normal. As the operating system is working it will occasionally hit a glitch that produces an error in the log, but later in the log you will find where the problem was resolved. The Event Log is never error free. If an error is repeatedly recorded then it is a problem.
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Hi all - here's a quick rundown of what I'm trying to do...
The project: A looping banner animation with audio event
sounds
Background: I currently have event sounds of a camera-click
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NicknameAlreadyTaken,
> I currently have event sounds of a camera-click
> and an audio transition between 5 mc's on my
> main timeline. I'm trying to find a way to disable
> the audio sounds once the movie plays through
> one time.
Okay.
> The problem: I can't get my head around it.
Free yourself from the timeline, my friend! :) Use
ActionScript to
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sense. You could
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In later frames, check that counter's value before you play
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if (counter < 1) {
cameraClick.start();
In your last frame, increment the counter by one, and
gotoAndPlay(2).
Why 2? Because if you go back to the very beginning, you'll
re-initialize
that counter to zero.
Make sense?
Alternatively, you could globally turn down the volume for
all sounds
after the first loop. ActionScript usually gives you half a
dozen ways to
accomlish a given goal. ;)
Here are some short articles that may help you in this
particular
endeavor.
http://www.quip.net/blog/2006/flash/how-to-loop-three-times
http://www.quip.net/blog/2006/flash/actionscript-20/understanding-the-sound-constructor
http://www.quip.net/blog/2006/flash/how-to-toggle-sound-globally
http://www.quip.net/blog/2006/flash/actionscript-20/ojects-building-blocks
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Since you are running a Vista 32bit version, the upper limit of the memory recocnised by the machine is 3.2gb which is the maximum a 32bit operating system can address and use. The diffrence here is that I also upgraded my OS to Vista Ultimate 64bit to get yet better performance out of the 64bit dual AMD processor.
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A 64bit OS such as Vista Ultimate 64, recognises the whole 4gb of RAM and much more (for instance, 8gb with 2 x 4gb RAM modules). The 64bit OS itself would generally consume more RAM to start with, however, with 4gb I found the general performance to be much better. Going back to the problem however, my P200D-11R with Ultimate 64 and 4gb RAM refuses to wake up from sleep mode gracefully and the graphics and sound crash every time, forcing me to restart.
My feelings at present is that eventhough your machine may be slightly different, I bet if you upgrade your OS to 64bit, the machine will start recognising all of the 4gb of RAM and post-sleep crashes will start to appear!

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Hi...lags animations in games and messages and album pic..when disable assistive touch,it's true and fix..please release update to fix this in ios 7.1..i need assistive touch and fast game and animation booth!!

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I will not be releasing any version of iOS ever.

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