Edit a sound in flash, Edit a sound in soundbooth, Using sounds in flash lite – Adobe Flash Professional CC 2014 v.13.0 User Manual

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Edit a sound in Flash

In Flash Professional, you can define the starting point of a sound or control the volume of the sound as it plays. You can also change the point at
which a sound starts and stops playing. This is useful for making sound files smaller by removing unused sections.

1. Add a sound to a frame, or select a frame that already contains a sound.

2. Select Window > Properties.

3. Click the Edit button on the right side of the Property inspector.

4. Do any of the following:

To change the start and end points of a sound, drag the Time In and Time Out controls in the Edit Envelope.

To change the sound envelope, drag the envelope handles to change levels at different points in the sound. Envelope lines show the
volume of the sound as it plays. To create additional envelope handles (up to eight total), click the envelope lines. To remove an
envelope handle, drag it out of the window.

To display more or less of the sound in the window, click the Zoom In or Out buttons.

To switch the time units between seconds and frames, click the Seconds and Frames buttons.

5. To hear the edited sound, click the Play button.

Edit a sound in Soundbooth

If you have Adobe Soundbooth installed, you can use Soundbooth to edit sounds you have imported into your FLA file. After making changes in
Soundbooth, when you save the file and overwrite the original, the changes are automatically reflected in the FLA file.

If you change the filename or format of the sound after editing it, you will need to re-import it into Flash Professional.

For a video tutorial about using Flash together with Soundbooth, see Working with Soundbooth and Flash at

www.adobe.com/go/lrvid4100_xp

Note: Soundbooth is available only on Windows computers and Intel®-based Macintoshes.

To edit an imported sound in Soundbooth:

1. Right-click (Windows) or Ctrl-click (Macintosh) the sound in the Library panel.

2. Choose Edit in Soundbooth from the context menu. The file opens in Soundbooth.

3. Edit the file in Soundbooth.

4. When you are finished, save the file. To save the changes in a non-destructive format, choose the ASND format.

If you save the file in a different format from the original, you will need to re-import the sound file into Flash Professional.

5. Return to Flash Professional to see the edited version of the sound file in the Library panel.

Note: You cannot edit sounds from the Sounds library (Window > Common Libraries > Sounds) with the Edit in Soundbooth command. To edit
these sounds in Soundbooth, open Soundbooth and select the sound from the Resource Central panel. Edit the sound and then import it into
Flash Professional.

Using sounds in Flash Lite

Adobe® Flash® Lite supports two types of sound: standard Flash Professional sounds, like those used in Flash Professional desktop applications,
and device sounds. Flash Lite 1.0 supports device sounds only; Flash Lite 1.1 and 2.x support both standard sounds and device sounds.

Device sounds are stored in the published SWF file in their native audio format (such as MIDI or MFi); during playback, Flash Lite passes the
sound data to the device, which decodes and plays the sound. Because you can’t import most device audio formats into Flash Professional, you
instead import a proxy sound in a supported format (such as mp3 or AIFF) that is replaced with an external device sound that you specify.

You can use device sounds only as event sounds—you can’t synchronize device sounds with the Timeline as you can with standard sounds.

Flash Lite 1.0 and Flash Lite 1.1 do not support the following features available in the desktop version of Flash® Player:

The ActionScript Sound object

Loading of external mp3 files

The Speech Audio Compression option

For more information, see “Working with Sound, Video, and Images” in Developing Flash Lite 2.x Applications or “Working with Sound” in
Developing Flash Lite 1.x Applications.