Professional :: Separate Scenes Or Not?
Sep 27, 2010
I'm building a simple interactive video/animation in Flash. I have a sample from the company that I'm going follow and they use separate scenes for different sections of the video. I've read there are disadvantages to using Scenes but I haven't seen any advantages. In fact I haven't found much about Scenes at all. Most people seem to build their stuff in one scene, just labeling frames so they can jump to them to make scenes that way. I also have been looking up tutorials and I can't find anything about using the Scenes palette and how to connect the scenes together. Is there any reason I should use this Scenes palette and not do my whole video in one scene?
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whenever I set my sound to stream and continue to make a movie with multiple scenes. The audio and video get disgustingly out of sync sometimes even off by 30 seconds. I just started an animation its only 10 seconds long with two scenes and the AV is already off by about 5 seconds. Ive worked around this by avoiding scenes altogether but i really don't want to have another 5000 frame scene. I discovered this problem in Flash MX and Im quite annoyed that it still has't been fixed 3 years later!
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Jun 23, 2010
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I have a flash movie that moves ahead in the animation based off the audio. I've broken the movie up into a few scenes so that I can keep things really easy for myself. However because I'm using the same function to read the audio in the different scenes I'm getting a duplicate function error. Original Function that works great in the individual scenes but fails when played together:
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I have a bunch of scenes, and I have a continuous song that plays over them. I'll simplify below to better specify my intentions.
Game Menus
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Jul 28, 2011
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