MACROMEDIA FLASH 8-USING FLASH Use Manual page 322

To set export properties for an individual sound:
1. Do one of the following:
Double-click the sound's icon in the Library panel.
Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Macintosh) a sound file in the Library panel
and select Properties from the context menu.
Select a sound in the Library panel and select Properties from the options menu in the
upper right corner of the panel.
Select a sound in the Library panel and click the properties icon at the bottom of the
Library panel.
2. If the sound file has been edited externally, click Update.
3. For Compression, select Default, ADPCM, MP3, Raw, or Speech. To select options for a
compression format, see the following section that corresponds to the selected format:
"Using the ADPCM compression option" on page 322
"Using the MP3 compression option" on page 323
"Using the Raw compression option" on page 324
"Using the Speech compression option" on page 324
4.
Set export settings.
5.
Click Test to play the sound once. Click Stop if you want to stop testing the sound before
it finishes playing.
6.
Adjust export settings if necessary until the desired sound quality is achieved.
7.
Click OK.
The Default compression option uses the global compression settings in the Publish Settings
dialog box when you export your SWF file. If you select Default, no additional export settings
are available.
Using the ADPCM compression option
The ADPCM compression option sets compression for 8- or 16-bit sound data. Use the
ADPCM setting when you export short event sounds such as button clicks.
To use ADPCM compression:
1.
In the Sound Properties dialog box, select ADPCM from the Compression menu.
2.
For Preprocessing, select Convert Stereo to Mono to convert mixed stereo sounds to
monaural (mono). (Mono sounds are unaffected by this option.)
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