15. Adding Sound

It’s amazing how much a classic silent film conveys with just moving pictures and text, but that era is history. Audio is a vital feature of today’s Web sites. In Macromedia Flash, you can incorporate sound in your projects, either as an ongoing background element or as a synchronized element that matches a particular piece of action—say, a slapping sound that accompanies a pair of hands clapping.

To add sound to Flash movies, you must import sound clips to the library and then attach instances of the sound clips to key-frames. You can access sounds and control synchronization of sounds via the Frame Properties tab of the Property inspector.

Flash offers a limited form of sound editing. You can clip the ends off a sound and adjust ...

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