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Dec. 20th, 2004 09:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gmonkey42I had the impression that a lot of people would be taking time off this week but that's next week. I'm most likely going to take the rest of this week off. That's only two vacation days because we get Thursday and Friday off anyway. That's cool. I haven't used any vacation days so far because I've made up for time off by working extra hours at other times.
So. I got some stuff done with Flash. There's still the problem of getting sounds to synch up with the animation. I didn't realize, the book I have is LiveMotion for Dummies but I have LiveMotion 2.0 and it's different. The book says how it's easy to make sound files in the composition time-independent but that option isn't on the Timeline menu where the book says it is in 1.0. Dammit. I think making the sound a movie clip is a step in the right direction but I don't really get how movie clips work. Way does it have to be so damn complicated? Why does 3/4 of the book have to be devoted to telling us how to make basic shapes? Seriously, there's one chapter on how to click the shape tool and click and drag on the canvas to draw a shape, then the NEXT chapter tells you how to make the shape different colors. Then the part about making the sound synch up with the pictures is one sentence. Dammit.
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Woo! I bought Adobe's own LiveMotion 2.0 guide. And it's an e-book so I'm downloading it right now. And it's got a whoooooole chapter on movie clips. OK then.
So. I got some stuff done with Flash. There's still the problem of getting sounds to synch up with the animation. I didn't realize, the book I have is LiveMotion for Dummies but I have LiveMotion 2.0 and it's different. The book says how it's easy to make sound files in the composition time-independent but that option isn't on the Timeline menu where the book says it is in 1.0. Dammit. I think making the sound a movie clip is a step in the right direction but I don't really get how movie clips work. Way does it have to be so damn complicated? Why does 3/4 of the book have to be devoted to telling us how to make basic shapes? Seriously, there's one chapter on how to click the shape tool and click and drag on the canvas to draw a shape, then the NEXT chapter tells you how to make the shape different colors. Then the part about making the sound synch up with the pictures is one sentence. Dammit.
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Woo! I bought Adobe's own LiveMotion 2.0 guide. And it's an e-book so I'm downloading it right now. And it's got a whoooooole chapter on movie clips. OK then.
