How to Add Sound to an Adobe Flash CS4 Project
Nothing spruces up your Adobe Flash animations like sound. The best part is Adobe Flash makes it so easy to do. With a few mouse clicks you will be well on your way to an Adobe Flash animation complete with sound.
- Launch Adobe Flash CS4 and either select an existing project or a new one. For this tutorial it doesn’t matter as you will soon see.
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Step 2
In the timeline panel create a new Layer and call it “sounds”. If find that having a layer for the sound itself works best. This way I can manipulate it in some fashion to get it to do what I exactly want it to do. To change the name of your layer, just double click the layer name and type.
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Step 3
The next thing we need to do is import our sound to our library. Click on “File” then click on “Import” then click on “Import to Library”. This will bring up the “Import to Library” window.
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Step 4
On the “Import to Library” window, navigate to where your sound file resides on your computer, select it then click the “open” butto.
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Step 5
We need to associate the sound we just imported to our library to the layer we have called sounds in our Adobe Flash animation. To do this click the sounds layer to activate it and then go to the properties panel. If you don’t see the properties panel press the “CTRL+F3″ keys on your keyboard.
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Step 6
In your properties panel you will see a heading labeled “sound”. Under that heading you will see a drop down box labeled “name”. Click the arrow on the dropdown box and you will see your sound in there that you just imported. Select your sound from the dropdown box.
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Step 7
Your sound has now been added to that layer. As a side note if your animation is not long enough to play the entire sound file it will only show up to the number of frames that have. This is where you will have to extend or shorten your animation to have it match the sounds you just imported.
