Is there a way to attach an audio file (narration) to a graphic so that it doesn’t start playing until that graphic is shown?
I’m attempting to put together an online “Keynote” presentation. Some ‘slides’ have multiple build points, each with their own voiceover. Graphic [A] is simple, everything starts with the initial screen load. How does one start a voiceover when a Rollover triggers the appearance of graphic layer [B]?
You could try using the Sound FX Action to trigger the sound. There is
(and cannot help but be) a lag time while the sound file loads,
because due to the nature of these things, the file cannot be
preloaded without triggering it to play. It’s best if this sort of
audio effect can be confined to a very tiny file.
Walter
On Apr 4, 2011, at 1:38 PM, Robert wrote:
Is there a way to attach an audio file (narration) to a graphic so
that it doesn’t start playing until that graphic is shown?
I’m attempting to put together an online “Keynote” presentation.
Some ‘slides’ have multiple build points, each with their own
voiceover. Graphic [A] is simple, everything starts with the initial
screen load. How does one start a voiceover when a Rollover triggers
the appearance of graphic layer [B]?
Doing a quick Google for html5 presentation conversions you may find an option. I took a look at http://www.sliderocket.com but curiously it only seems to work on IOS devices as the presentations don’t play on my pristine Macbook Pro which I have not installed Flash on (as yet). But something else similar may be out there.
I’ve seen similar (not this one) before. There’s a very nice one
called S9 that lets you author your slides in Markdown, and then
generates all the HTML and stylesheets and JavaScript for you. http://slideshow.rubyforge.org/
I generally like the Freeway approach to “simple” website designing for those of us strong(er) on graphics than coding. To be frank, I’m a bit surprised that Freeway doesn’t include some of the elements that would make constructing a relatively simple slideshow presentation more of a cakewalk. The ruby-related items referenced above are beyond my pay-grade (so to speak).
I’ve resolved some of my FP problems by attaching the Sound FX action to the Rollover item (in this case the ‘continue’ button) rather than a Target item or layer. I’ve also figured out that a Rollover Image can trigger itself as a Target Image to make it disappear once clicked.
I’m using mp3 files since it appears they are the most universally accepted by all browser types and rather small. Which raises a qualitative question with respect to Walter’s first post — how small an audio file is “very tiny?”
I agree with you, but in order to do what you really want sometimes you have to push Freeway with large earth moving equipment (or code) to get there. Freeway as it is can sometimes be full of compromises. You can live with them, or fight the status quo and find other ways to do things.
