Adding Sound > Compressing sounds for export > Guidelines for exporting sound in Flash movies
Guidelines for exporting sound in Flash moviesAside from sampling rate and compression, there are several ways to use sound efficiently in a movie and keep file size down:
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Set the in and out points to prevent silent areas from being stored in the Shockwave Flash file and to reduce the size of the sound. |
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Get more out of the same sounds by applying different effects for sounds (such as volume envelopes, looping, and in/out points) at different keyframes. You can get a number of sound effects using only one sound file. |
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Use looping to extract the common part of the sound and play it repeatedly. Loop short sounds for background music. |
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Do not set streaming sound to loop. |