MP3 sound file out of sync in Projector file

[agreen01 webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

I'm a relative beginner at Designer 8.5 on Windows XP (Pentium Xeon 2.20ghz, 1gb RAM, 80gb HD) and am having problems with the MP3 in my Director movie. The sound plays fine in Director, nicely in sync with all my transitions, but when I produce the Projector, it loses about 0.5 secs after just 10 secs of playback - on the same machine that made the movie.

I've taken a PowerPoint presentation, and exported slides to JPEGs. Then inserted the JPEGs as internal cast members (i've tried as external but no difference). Then placed the JPEGs on the stage at the places where I roughly want them to appear, and added a 0.5 sec duration WIPE LEFT transition (also in internal cast).

I've also inserted ONE premade narration+music MP3 file (about 13mins long) into the cast and then placed it into a sound channel.

I've spent a few days tweaking the timing, trimming and adding frames here and there, and when I playback in Director everything is perfect - nicely synchronised.

When I create the Projector, I use these settings:
Options: In a Window
Stage: Use Movie Settings + Center
Player: Standard

When I play the Projector file on my computer, by the 2nd/3rd transition after about 10 secs the sound is already 0.5 secs ahead. When I play on a lower spec machine, the sound is even further ahead.

I've tried recording the perfect Director playback with Camtasia Recorder. This creates an AVI file, but still I get the same problem.

I've read about Cue Points in sound files. Is that likely to solve my problem? Are there any Freeware programmes out there to do it? I'm concerned that I may be out of my depth, but feel the solution is just around the corner.

Any help much appreciated.

[alfredo_MX webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

I have the same problem many times. When I create and play a "projector" in my computer it always play veeeeeery veeeeeer slowly, but when I play the same "projector" in other computer, it runs normal.
I have really strange problems with the Director 8.5

I had very strange problems with the Director 8.5. For example, an swf file didn't want to play because it was in the sprite 1. After many hours of trying to understand why my swf didn´t want to play I changed it to sprite 2 and plays normal..... The reason? i don´t know... maybe my swf file didn´t like the sprite 1.

Alfredo

[jay]

Use lingo to control the playhead.

You should build this into a behavior so that you can just swap in the
correct value
(the example below assumes that you're using sound channel 1 and that you're
waiting until 2 seconds is reached before allowing the playhead to move
(times are in milliseconds)

(sample code (frame script))
on EnterFrame me
if the currentTime of sound 1 < 2000 then
go the frame
else
go next
end if
end


HTH

Jay
"alfredo_MX" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
news:bjiqbc$5a0$1@forums.macromedia.com...

> I have the same problem many times. When I create and play a "projector"

in my computer it always play veeeeeery veeeeeer slowly, but when I play the
same "projector" in other computer, it runs normal.

> I have really strange problems with the Director 8.5
>
> I had very strange problems with the Director 8.5. For example, an swf

file didn't want to play because it was in the sprite 1. After many hours of
trying to understand why my swf didn´t want to play I changed it to sprite 2
and plays normal..... The reason? i don´t know... maybe my swf file didn´t
like the sprite 1.

>
> Alfredo
>
>