Text and sound tips?

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Hi

I would like to know the best ways of using text and sound in a movie. I’ve heard that embedding fonts are dangerous and slows down the movie, but why then use fonts from “fonts for flash”?

When it comes to sound, for example if I load an external mp3 song, will it get compressed anyway? I would like to make a song player in flash and if someone has made one and have good tips please share, I have no experience when it comes to using sound, especially songs.

thanks for listening

A

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Usually I convert my MP3 to wav’s before importing them. It will reduce the file size quite a bit!:cool:

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Yea i do that too! And I just use any fonts! I don’t know cuz i have a cable modem and it downloads quick anyway

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Sound tutorial: http://www.flashkit.com/tutorials/Audio/Flash_MX-Kenny_Be-824/

Text: Embeding fonts does not increase the file size too much, and if you want to use a cool font that no one else has then you have to do it…

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also, if you just have like a header in a special font, you can break it apart and make it all fills instead of a font, this way you don’t have to embed a whole font for one header or something. :slight_smile:

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thanx for answering everyone… I still would like to know more about using sound in flash… especially when it comes to using external sound files. I havn’t checked the flashkit tut yet… maybe my answer is there.

thanx