Master Visually®: Dreamweaver® CS4 and Flash® CS4 Professional

Chapter 31. Add Sound

Introduction to Flash Sounds

You can improve your users' experience by adding sound to your Flash movies. You can add short sound effect clips or background music. Sounds can also include voice narrations, musical scores, and sound effects.

You can assign a sound that continues to play throughout your Flash movie, or synchronize a sound to play with specific frames. You can also assign sound clips to buttons.

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 ...