Trying to make an animated music video.

[caseyf3347880]

So I started working on an animated music video and I've run into 2 problems.

• I want to preview my scenes as if they were together, so when I click play Scene 1 ends, Scene 2 begins.

• I want my music on scene 2 to continue from where scene 1 left off exactly, so far I've only found the "Custom" effect in the audio preferences, and I need the audio to start off exactly where scene 1 left off.

[kglad]

don't use scenes or use code to do the things you want to continue across scenes.

use test movie to preview.

[kdmemory · Accepted solution]

Hi casey

On your first point:

When you select Control -> Test (ctrl/or/cmd + Enter) the Player plays and loops all scenes in sorting order (as they are sorted in Window -> Scene). This would only be different if you added somewhere some code like stop(); or gotoAndStop();

You test single scenes by selecting Control -> Test Scene and it plays/loops the scene you are just working on.

On your second point:

I don't know how you insert your music. You should use Actionscript to initialize and play/stop/pause your song. So for example in frame 1 of scene 1 you could put a script like

var mySound: Sound = new TheSong();
var soundStarted: Boolean;
if (!soundStarted) {
    mySound.play();
    soundStarted = true;
}

Whereby TheSong() is the linkage/Class name you have given the sound file in your library. The var soundStarted: Boolean makes sure, that, when your scenes are looped that the sound doesn't start all over again when frame 1 in scene 1 gets repeated.

More about sound methods in Actionscript 3: AS3: Sounds

Klaus