Problems With Audio/Picture Playback in Director

Question

I'm pretty new to Director and I want to refrain
from getting into scripting for this simple task:
I am animating frame by frame with no vectors. I put a .wav
file in one of the sound channels and stretch it across the entire
animation (few thousand frames) for a scene. Then, no matter where
I am in the animation, when I press play the sound starts from the
beginning.
There is no way in hell I'll be able to sync lips with
dialogue by playing the entire scene from the beginning every time
just to see the sound synced with audio. I want to be able to play
the same fraction of a second (several frames) while animating and
KNOW WHERE IN THE SOUND I'M AT. I would have thought this expensive
program would at least display the spectrogram or something, much
less not play the audio from the beginning when I'm in the middle
of the sound sprite. I've prerecorded the entire sound score in one
Audacity file and exported it as a .wav to Director. I don't want
to use any other sound channels or ques, etc.
PLEASE HELP, and thank you.

Answer 1

"DarrenDoesIt" <[email protected]> wrote in
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>I appreciate your help, but most of these websites assume
you're
>making some
> flash vid or video game animation. I'm creating
noninteractive
> animation that
> I'll later edit into scenes. The way I'm coming to
understand it,
> the source
> of the problem is the way the program treats sound as
measured in
> time where as
> the graphics/animation are measured in frames. Still,
I'm convinced
> its a
> crock of sh#% and that the lack of this simple feature
is there to
> force you to
> buy marker software. The program should either display
the
> spectrogram of the
> sound or at least play the sound from the point in time
that the
> cursor is at!!
Director is a program that can be used to make interactive
multimedia
and software.
What you want is make a linear video.
You are much better off with a video editing suite or
specialised
synch software.
Start from here:
http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Graphics/Animation/
or here:
http://www.google.com/Top/Computers/Software/Graphics/Animation/
Or just click here:
http://www.google.nl/search?num=50&hl=en&safe=off&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q= video+animation+editing+lip+sync+software&spell=1
(all one line, copy paste if necessary)
Good luck,
Richard.