Problems with lip sync

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I have been trying to animated a character with lip sync. A couple of strange things have occurred. Maybe someone has some thoughts. I started by forming mouth shapes. I created an empty movieclip where I added two layers. One for sound and one for the mouth shapes. I put in the correct shapes for the appropriate times. When I published the movie the sound was no longer in sync with the lips. I fixed this with a poor technique which was changing the frame rate. This speeded the lips but left the sound alone thereby the timing was restored. I don’t think I would have this problem if I had accepted the default sound quality. By changing the quality to raw or speech I had the problem. My frame rate was initially 30 and I had to increase it to 44 to put everything in sync.

The next thing that happened that I found strange was when creating another lip sync nested movie clip, if I accepted the default (tinny) sound the nested clip seemed to work but when I converted it to a good quality the sound totally played at the wrong time. The sound would literally play after the lips stopped moving. The clip is only 44 frames long.

I would think that creating a nested movieclip of approximately 50 frames would not have timing issues. Any thoughts regarding this issue.

Thanks in advanced … Michael

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its probally lagg lol… thats all i got … x[

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jaydee … thanks for your input…

Just to simplify my question:

There are different quality sounds that can be used with Flash MX. eg raw, speech, MP3. Without selecting a higher quality the program assigns “default”. This sound has a very “tinny” quality. When published using the “default” sound quality the lips and sound remain in sync. If I use a better quality, the movie tests OK but when it is published the characters lips are no longer in sync with the sound. I have searched the Internet for an an explanation. If anyone has an answer it will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks … Michael

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try using some code to let the video load before it starts playing, it could be that the sound is still loading and can’t begin to stream while the mouth (much smaller file size) starts right away.

then again… speeding up the frame rate shouldn’t fix it if that were the problem, but maybe its worth a shot? if nothing else works