Chapter 15. Working with Sound
Understanding Sound in Flash
Few things can enliven your movie like sound. Whether it is a short sound effect clip or background music, voice narrations, or musical scores, a judicious use of sound can often make the difference in a project.
Understanding Digital Sounds
Although not visible to the naked eye, sounds are made of waves that vary in frequency and amplitude. Digital sounds are visually represented as waveforms. Waveforms appear as vertically stacked lines of varying heights, resembling the output from a seismic chart of an earthquake. The more intense the sound, the taller and denser the waveform line measurement.
For computer usage, sounds are transformed into mathematical equations, called digital sampling ...
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